(2345) “Yet the prince of rings was too proud to line up with the large army.”
Beowulf’s pride is his tragic flaw. He takes too much, for lack of a better word, pride in his pride. He constantly needs to fight for it. And because his pride is such a big part of him it tends to cloud his judgment sometimes and makes him do irrational things. Although since it is his pride and need for fame and glory that drives him to fight the monsters it may be argued that those “flaws” are what made Beowulf so popular today. Having an epic hero die in a battle against a dragon makes for a pretty exciting poem.
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