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LITERATURE I
MAG.PROF. MARÍA JOSÉ LUCAS
Before Old English
The Celts
Three cycles
Ubi-sunt
Sense of loss typical of Old English elegies.Questions risen by the poet usually begining
with the Word “Where”
Essay Writing
Thesis statement in the introductory paragraph. No need to include any
kind of introduction concerning setting, historical context, etc.
Wergild /werˈgɪld/-a man-payment to a family/King for a debt whish usually includes the death
of someone important.
Elegy vs Epic
Different in TONE
Elegy= sadness/sorrow/loss
Epic=greatness/heroic/glory
Grendel
Grendel is introduced.
Grendel´s sadness and unhappiness vs glory and joy, celebratory events, in the hall.
Slaughter
The night after Grendel´slaughter/ now unhapinnes and horror are equal
Repeated actions/bloodthirsty
Welthow appears
The Battle with Grendel´s Mother
Beowulf challenged by the Monter´s Mother
This battle is different from the first one, a Mother in search of revenge
Beowulf succeeds
The Last Battle
The dragon is Beowulf´s last enemy to fight
The hero chooses his fate: to die fighting a more powerful enemy as the hero he was once, or
die in his bed, of natural cause. This is not the honorable death he deserves.