their simple minds. The Anglo Saxon and today’s modern culture differ in a multitude of ways such as in the original Beowulf epic, most characters do not develop throughout the story while in the modern movie interpretation, Beowulf and Grendel (Gunnarsson, 2005), the characters change through experiences that give characters new insight. Characters such as Beowulf, Hrothgar, and Grendel are much different in the modern story than they were when the original story was written in 1000 C.E. The characters
Wynkoop English 12 10/8/14 Beowulf Rough Draft In the epic Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf, Wyrd decides the whole tale. Grendels fate was to be a ‘bad guy’, whereas Beowulf was destine to be the hero. Both Beowulf and Grendel have followed the Anglo-Saxon code ‘an eye for an eye’, justifying their actions. God allowed the creation of both Beowulf and Grendel; the assumption will be made that The Anglo-Saxons eventually followed something similar to predestination. Grendel, “a fiend out of hell” (9
background in the 1930’s included a series of lectures about Beowulf, and he became very well known for them. According to Colin Duriez (author of J.R.R. Tolkien: The Making of a Legend), undergraduate and postgraduate students were entertained and influenced by Tolkien’s reading of Beowulf. According to a letter sent to Tolkien in his later years, “the voice was the voice of Gandolf” (Duriez 135). Tolkien was able to communicate Beowulf in a way that made a profound impact on students. The