Friday, September 16, 2011

Beowulf: Dialectical Journal 21

When Beowulf kills Grendel he may have actually been doing him a favor. The life of an exile and yearning for God’s forgiveness and not getting it is was caused Grendel to rebel and take over the city. In death Beowulf saves Grendel from the life as an exile because he doesn’t have to live through it anymore.

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