Monday, September 19, 2011

Beowulf: Dialectical Journal 37

(2890) “A warrior will sooner die than live a life of shame.”

Yet again this connects into the idea of the fact that warriors are warriors to seek honor and glory and defend their pride. It is disgraceful for a warrior to run from a battle, like the warriors did at the end (which they were then punished). Which once again ties even further into the idea that God chooses people’s fate. So it was probably their fate to run away from the battle in the first place. Basically whatever actions people do they say is what God intended them to do, and it was God’s fate for them (which I think is bogus.)

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