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On the image of Beowulf
We know that most of videos based on literature works are not exactly the same as its original. And today, I’d like to take the movie, Beowulf and its original, the Song of Beowulf, as an example to let you see their differences and the reasons that cause their differences.
Beowulf, son of Ecgtheow, is from Greats. From the movie, he comes for gold and glory to help Hrothgar, the king of Denmark in AD. 507. And he has killed a monster called Grendel, who is the son of Hrothgar and a hag. But he hasn’t kill Grendel’s mother when faced her because she is beautiful and full of fine promises, which brings disaster to the land.
There are mainly 3 differences between the movie and the original in total. First, in the original, Beowulf is perfect, for he killed Grendel and his mother and even devoted his life to his land and his people. However, in the film, Beowulf is fallible and flawed, for he didn’t pull through the barrier of Grendel’s mother. But, he still deserves to be honored because he’s a real hero and a well-liked king. No matter in the original or the film, Beowulf shows up as a brave man who cares for the future of his land.
Second, the film describes Grendel as a fragile child-like creature rather than savage demon monster which is described in the original. In the original, the monsters are outcasts because theyre bad (just as HYPERLINK /wiki/Cain_and_AbelCain, their progenitor, was outcast because he killed his brother), but in the film, the monsters are bad because theyre outcasts. The film wants us to recognize and humanize the real monsters, human’s pride and prejudice. In the film, Grendel is a poor guy who is cast out by human. He and the dragon, son of Beowulf, are sins of their fathers.
Last, in the original, a greedy firedrake takes revenge on human because one of Beowulf’s subjects stole some of the treasure which it had for 300 years been guarding in a cavern. But in the film, the hag tem
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