Category: Beowulf

  • Beowulf: Cultural Elements of the Anglo-Saxon Piece of Literature

    The literature inheritance leaves many works that reflect the history and culture of people that lived in that period. While studying the cultural and social conditions we come across some peculiar feature of each peoples and subconsciously identify them with new character traits of the modernized society. In that regard, the poem Beowulf reflects the…

  • Beowulf as a Tragic Hero of the Old English Warrior Culture

    Beowulf is an old English story drawn from their native oral literature. Though the author is anonymous, its influence is still felt up to today in many of the works of contemporary writers. The protagonist exhibits all the character traits of a tragic hero as defined by Aristotle. According to Aristotles arguments, such a hero…