Beowulf
If you are the type of
person who pick you up a book, checks it out and never read’s it. Then you have
not crossed paths with the Epic Beowulf; Translated by Burton Raffle. This
story has It all from happiness to sad it also has a lot of action. Beowulf is
a man that is fear less. He races Beca, fight demons, and creatures.
In the text it
never talks about Beowulf having a race
with Beca. On the other hand in the film it talks about how Beowulf challenges
Beca to swim across the ocean. Unferth is the one that makes the comment about Beowulf
loosing the race, but Beowulf says he has lost the race in order to save Beca
and other members of the ship because there were serpents and demons in the
water. Also in the text it never says anything about Unferth being jealous of
Beowulf. He is jealous of Beowulf because he came to save them from Grendel the
creature.
Another huge
difference was when Grendel shows up at mead-hall. In the text Grendel shows up
because he is curious about what the humans are doing in mead-hall. In the film
he shows up in mead-hall because all the noises and music are hurting his
ears. He wants the music to stop so he
starts to fight Beowulf .They are both unarmed. Grendle throws Beowulf
everywhere as if he were an empty sack. Beowulf
gets up and jumps
on the back
of Grendle and he
notices a weak spot, his
ears are vibrating really
hard because it
hurts him. Beowulf decides to bust
Grendle’s eardrum, and because
of that Grendle does not
notice that he has tangled himself
in some chains. He decides to go
back home but his hand
is tangled and Beowulf takes
advantage of Grendle and he
breaks of Grendle’s arm by
slamming the door on it. while it was
stuck there. In contrast to the book Grendle dose not have a weak spot
The final difference
between the book and the movie is with Grendle‘s mother. In the text she lives
in a swamp and does not come out of it at all. In the movie he actually comes
out of the swamp because she wants to avenge hers sons death. She first starts
by killing all the Geat’s of Beowulf. She hangs them upside down in the mead-hall
but with the exception of Beowulf.
Beowulf is a
man who has many adventures he fights demons and creatures. In his life time he
did many brave things. He did all of this because he wanted to live forever as an
epic hero. He also became king and then
gave his life in order to save his people. That is Beowulf!
