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BEOWULF - Coggle Diagram
BEOWULF
THEMES
bravery of the hero
loyalty
fate and destiny ruled man's life
conflict between good and evil
warrior society
Christian values
SETTINGS
Heorot
A misty lake
Denmark
Geatland
ORIGINS OF THE EPIC
author is unknown
between the 8th and the 11th centuries
the oldest Anglo-Saxon epic poem
PLOT
follows the hero's defeat of three monsters
1- he kills Grendel by the tearing off its claw
2- he kills Grendel's mother with a magic sword
3- he kills the dragon
the poem ends with Beowulf funeral
CHARACTERS
the hero: Beowulf
three monsters
Grendel's mother
the dragon
Grendel
STYLE
has all the typical aspects of classical epic poems