The last part is about the fight between Beowulf and a firedrake that ravages Beowulf’s kingdom. ② Beowulf is a pagan poem concerned with the heroic ideal of kings and kingship in North Europe. Battle is a way of life at that time. Strength and courage are basic virtues for both ...
was written in vernacular (everyday language) rather than the more formal and courtly Latin. While the work itself is short, it was and remains highly influential as a political work, especially as it gives advice to authority figures on how to gain, keep, and maintain power over...
Blood is not really one of the primary motifs inHamlet, as it is inMacbeth. Rather imagery of disease and rot permeate the play. Here are but a few examples: Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. (1.4.100) It will but skin and film the ulcerous place, ...