Monday, January 26, 2009
After discussion in Class on Beowulf
I was thinking today while we were having our discussion and after Dr. Kilgore raised an interesting thought that the author is relating his story to real life events and controversial subject. As the author was writing this story the spread of Christianity was taking over the country, along with the belief in one God, and only God himself was to be believed in. This God was immortal, just like the monster and dragons. I think that possibly the author links the belief in God who is immortal to the opposite contender of the evil monster to represent the devil; hence, good versus evil.
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Yes. And the tendency -- then and now -- is to see the world as Good and Evil, and I wonder what the author's relationship to that idea is. I mean, the poem certainly has good and evil, but there's a lot really tragic about the poem... and strange about Beowulf the guy too.
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