Beowulf, “The Betrayal.”

     The movie “Beowulf” presents different scenes where pride and faith go along with the hero. At the begging of the movie, Beowulf is presented as a great warrior who does not fear anyone or anything. But I am going to focus on the consequences of the action taking by Beowulf in order to become a king, the dishonored king. He was very well received by the villagers who had been frighten by the evil of Grendel, a monster who killed many villagers. Eventually, Beowulf defeats him, but after trying to confront Grendel’s mother, he is seduced by her, and falls on the track of betraying the kingdom that had giving him everything. No one in the village knows this until one day, Grendel’s mother attacks the village because the gold horn had gotten retrieved from her cave by a slave. It is noticeable, in the face of Beowulf that his decision was not the right one, and this eventually changed his entire way of living. I can tell that he always lived afraid of the truth, therefore, inside him had always lived the idea that one day he will have to pay this with his life. Even though, the movie has good plot, I would personally like to change the track of the story right when Beowulf sleeps with Grendel’s mother, and I know for sure that his life and the life of his kingdom would have been significantly better.

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One Response to Beowulf, “The Betrayal.”

  1. wchaudhry says:

    I agree with the concept that Beowulf shouldn’t have slept with Grendel’s mother i also believe that is what made the plot more entertaining. Every hero has is down fall, for superman its kryptonite, for Beowulf it’s seductive ‘bad’ women. . Women tend to be weaknesses for many men might I say. But he should never have put his greed above the priority of towns people. No matter how seducing the woman was and how many of his dreams would be fulfilled.

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