How Does Beowulf Fight

When he struggles and struggles finally Beowulf strength is too much and Grendel’s arm is ripped from its socket. He knows his horrible fate which is to bleed to death in the horrid fen.Although soon after the She demon, Grendel's mother comes back for revenge. Beowulf is prepared and more ready then he’ll ever be.He defeats the She demon triumphantly and comes home strong with pride. Soon Beowulf becomes homesick and returns to his homeland of the Geats, he fights strongly with his uncle until he dies, Beowulf is asked to be the king of the Geats but kindly declines. It is only when Heardred, Beowulf cousin dies that he accepts the position of king and rules wisely. Beowulf grows old and creates the golden age for the land but when the fire drake an evil monster who guards treasure burns down most of the land, Beowulf is ready for one last fight. Using the bees to sting it to death Beowulf and his companion Wiglaf face the beast and kill it. Beowulf's last battle is one to remember and shortly after Beowulf dies of old age but everyone knows that his spirit will live on and create peace for the land of the

Beowulf sees Grendel's mother in a cave. He tries to hit her with his sword, Unferth's Hrunting, but it fails to pierce her skin. So he throws the sword away and attacks the mother with his bare hands. He trusts "in his strength, his mighty hand-grip." Beowulf manages to throw Grendel's mother down; however, she quickly retaliates and is soon sitting on top of him. She tries to kill him with a dagger, but Beowulf's armor protects him this time. Beowulf managed to throw her off of himself and sees a sword of enormous size, which he immediately grabs.

When Grendel's mother arrives to torment the Danes, seeking vengeance for her son’s death, Beowulf’s fight with Grendel's mother

Beowulf displays his unconquerable strength when he defeats a monster that no one else can defeat. He proves his mighty strength by defeating the monster, Grendel; “Beowulf was granted / the glory of winning; Grendel was driven / under the fen-banks, fatally hurt, to his desolate lair” (Heaney 817-820). Although Beowulf does not actually kill Grendel directly, he does give Grendel a wound that would eventually lead to his death. During the battle, Beowulf rips Grendel’s arm off with his bare hands, as shown in the following: “Clear proof of this / could be seen in the hand the hero displayed / high up near the roof: the whole of Grendel’s / shoulder and arm, his awesome grasp” (832-835). Beowulf has the strength of 30 men in his each of his arms, which he uses to tear Grendel’s arm off and decides to give to the king as a trophy of his win. In the end Grendel decides to go somewhere else to perish and reflect, “The ignominious marks of his flight / where he’d skulked away, exhausted in spirit / haling his doom to the demons’ mere” (842-845). Grendel, who was just utterly defeated faces death. In conclusion, Beowulf’s strength leads him to his victory and fame.

The first major battle that Beowulf fights in is against Grendel. Beowulf’s motive for this particular fight is to get revenge for what Grendel did to the Danes. Grendel raided the Danes for a total of twelve years. As we learned throughout the book Beowulf was very selfless and was always willing to help out other people. When Grendel comes to Heorot, he devours and kills a Geatish warrior all while Beowulf watches very closely. After this, Grendel tries to reach out and get Beowulf, but is surprised to find his arm gripped with the great strength of Beowulf. Grendel tries to run back to his home in the swamplands because he knows that he will not be able to compete with the mighty Beowulf. At the end of the battle Beowulf summons great strength and rips Grendel’s arm off his body. Grendel, now fatally wounded, goes back to his home and eventually dies. Beowulf holds up the bloody arm of Grendel like a trophy and hangs it on the wall in Heorot as proof that he defeated Grendel. Around the

He ripped off the monster’s arm as Grendel escaped wounded beyond repair. Beowulf kept the arm, hanging it from the rafters as a trophy to remember the brave warrior by. He basked in the praise the Danes heaped on him, finally bearing the rewards he seeked; glory and gold.

He chopped off Grendel’s head and took it with him to Herot to give to Hrothgar for proof. 50 Years later Beowulf Is an old men! He and elven warriors go to a final battle, where he must fight an angry dragon because someone stole its jeweled cup. He would be paid great for his victory. Beowulf went there and started to fight the dragon, his shield melted, his sword cracked when he attacked the dragon.

He is a protector and fights off anything that is a threat to his people. After defeating Grendel, Beowulf and the Danes believe the threat is over and they begin to celebrate, but Grendel's mother comes back for revenge. Beowulf persevered and defeated Grendel's mother as well. When a fierce dragon is awakened Beowulf fights off the dragon despite him dying from a venomous bite to the

Beowulf displays great strength in his fight against Grendel. The epic hero hears about a certain monster who seems to be going on a kill spree among the Danes. So Beowulf decides to visit and fight the monster Grendel and save the Danes from anymore mortality. In his fight with Grendel, Beowulf realizes that no weapon is capable of harming the monster.

Beowulf came to the rescues of the Danes that were being terrorized by the demon Grendel. He did not show fear before or during the encounter with Grendel. He if fact continued to boast about his ability to defeat the demon. When the time came that Grendel arrived to Heorot Hall, Beowulf’s skill in hand-to-hand combat lead him to defeat the demon.

Many similarities and differences appear between Beowulf’s heroic battles with Grendel, Grendel’s mother, and the dragon. Each monster Beowulf encounters has a different motive for attacking, for example in the first battle, Beowulf fights the

He is a great warrior for the Geats army, but he see’s himself as a warrior for all people. So when he hears of a monster attacking Danes he assembles an army and travels to their land to help hrothgar the king of the Danes. The monsters name is Grendel, he has been terrorizing the Danes and killing them for twelve years. Once Beowulf got there he made a game plan and lured Grendel to Heorot, where everything had begin. Once they got Grendel there the battle began and Beowulf ripped Grendel's arm off with his bare hands and Grendel left into the swamp where he later died.

When Beowulf fought Grendel, his men held him back and kept him from leaving, but it was Beowulf who actually fights him and tore his arm off. When he fights Grendel’s mother, he goes alone. He was in the bottom of the lake in a great battle

Beowulf fights with his bare hands to prove that he doesn’t need weapons to fight Grendel. Beowulf kills Grendel leading to the cause of why Grendel’s mother is after him. Grendel’s mother symbolizes rage and vengefulness after the death of her son. She only becomes a threat once Grendel is killed and she kills out of grief. In defeating his mother, Beowulf sets aside his on warriors’ vengeful nature and realizes that there is no honor in killing out of

Beowulf leaves his homeland and travels to Herot because he heard of the nightly attacks the Danes were suffering at the hands of Grendel. Grendel was attacking Herot because he heard the sounds of joy and happiness within the hall and because he, as a descendent of Cain, was angered when he heard people praising God. Beowulf wanted to fight Grendel to stop the attacks and save the lives of the Danes, but his also did it for the honor and glory he would earn by successfully defeating Grendel. To prepare to fight Grendel, Beowulf took off all of his armour and laid down his weapons because boasted that he was stronger than Grendel and could defeat him unarmed. The fight result in Beowulf making good on his claim of being stronger than Grendel because he ripped off Grendel’s arm to keep as a trophy and Grendel ran away and died.