Mini Miehm
19-10-2005, 14:14
I'm currently sitting iun English, trying to write a paper, and I've run out of ideas, the paper contrasts beowulf, or the anglo-saxon hero, and modern heroes.
Help me out if anybody has any ideas.
Beowulf VS Modern Hero
The Anglo-Saxon hero is both like, and unlike the Modern Hero. Today heroes are those on the frontlines, those with the bravery and strength to put themselves in harms way to defend the rest of a nation. The Anglo-Saxon hero was a lone runner, or had only a small cadre of friends and companions to help him in battle.
Pfc. Sean Gallipeau and Beowulf both have a great deal in common. Beowulf fought an invincible monster to help those he knew only by reputation; while Sean fights Iraqi insurgents for those he has never met before. Both Sean and Beowulf are people who are well-trained fighters, in Sean’s case with a unit, in Beowulf’s case, as an individual. While they have much in common, they are also rather different.
Beowulf was an epic hero, with many qualities that no man truly possesses. In Beowulf he is able to shatter the bones in the monster Grendel’s with little effort. He is also an unstoppable swimmer, swimming for seven days and nights in full armor, carrying a sword, in the icy North Sea, without even tiring. Beowulf is also able to take injuries no man should be able to survive, and he treats them like minor flesh wounds, seemingly unphased by any injury that is less than fatal. He is obviously a larger than life person, verging on being a demigod.
Sean Gallipeau, Private First Class in the United States Army, is a much more human hero, lacking Beowulf’s epic qualities, but still a hero in the most common sense of the word. As a Private in Iraq, he was badly wounded in a convoy ambush during May 2004. He was sent home to recover, and was eventually voluntarily redeployed to Iraq to finish out his tour of duty there.
Here's what I have so far, barebones.
Help me out if anybody has any ideas.
Beowulf VS Modern Hero
The Anglo-Saxon hero is both like, and unlike the Modern Hero. Today heroes are those on the frontlines, those with the bravery and strength to put themselves in harms way to defend the rest of a nation. The Anglo-Saxon hero was a lone runner, or had only a small cadre of friends and companions to help him in battle.
Pfc. Sean Gallipeau and Beowulf both have a great deal in common. Beowulf fought an invincible monster to help those he knew only by reputation; while Sean fights Iraqi insurgents for those he has never met before. Both Sean and Beowulf are people who are well-trained fighters, in Sean’s case with a unit, in Beowulf’s case, as an individual. While they have much in common, they are also rather different.
Beowulf was an epic hero, with many qualities that no man truly possesses. In Beowulf he is able to shatter the bones in the monster Grendel’s with little effort. He is also an unstoppable swimmer, swimming for seven days and nights in full armor, carrying a sword, in the icy North Sea, without even tiring. Beowulf is also able to take injuries no man should be able to survive, and he treats them like minor flesh wounds, seemingly unphased by any injury that is less than fatal. He is obviously a larger than life person, verging on being a demigod.
Sean Gallipeau, Private First Class in the United States Army, is a much more human hero, lacking Beowulf’s epic qualities, but still a hero in the most common sense of the word. As a Private in Iraq, he was badly wounded in a convoy ambush during May 2004. He was sent home to recover, and was eventually voluntarily redeployed to Iraq to finish out his tour of duty there.
Here's what I have so far, barebones.