Beowulf Today When reading modern literature, one cannot help to think about what gave the author the ideas that are expressed in the piece. Some may come from their own thoughts or opinions but most modern pieces, however, pull from very old ideas and follow a certain framework laid many years prior. Many medieval dramas are examples of this because Beowulf has created a theme that transcends ethnic and geographic boundaries as well as time in order to still have a voice today. The story of Beowulf
more interesting to obtain the attention of the viewers it will be, even at the expense of the story’s veracity. The movie Beowulf and Grendel (Gunnarsson, S.) shows a transition in how Beowulf grows as a person while in the poem, he remains a flat character. The movie and the book were very different in how the characters transition throughout the story line, especially Beowulf; also, the movie adds many new characters into the story line that the poem does not even mention. We see in these differences