Beowulf
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21 jam yang lalu · Now, get this: Beowulf decides that to make it fair, he will fight Grendel with no weapons. Just his bare hands. Which is, you know, insane. But it's also awesome. So, he waits in the hall, and when Grendel shows up, Beowulf grabs him as if he’s opening a jar of pickles. They wrestle, and Beowulf rips this guy’s arm off. Pop —there it ...
21 jam yang lalu · Beowulf is the synthesis of prowess, wisdom, and a third: statesmanship. He is the hero who can speak, in the manner of an orator. Beowulf’s speeches in the halls of Heorot initially show his deference to its lord, Hrothgar, and later increases his emphasis on influencing events - he transitions into showing his ability to rule.
1 hari yang lalu · As Beowulf himself says when explaining how he survived his fight with Grendel's mother: "Næs ic fæge ða gyt" -- "I was not doomed to die just yet" (line 2146). ... In Tolkien's prose translation of Beowulf he renders the phrase "Fate oft saveth a man not doomed to die, when his valour fails not" (Beowulf T&C 29).
4 hari yang lalu · The hideous Grendel terrorises the night, spoiling their revels, until the mighty Beowulf pits his might against the monster’s. Quinlan laces the telling with lovely hints of physical theatre whilst rustling up a fine range of voices to create the heroes, villains, and big mouths populating the story.
4 hari yang lalu · She snatches Grendel's arm off the ceiling and kidnaps one of Hrothgar's men named Aeschere while everyone, including Beowulf, is sound asleep. The following morning, they leave Heorot to look for Grendel's mother. While searching for her tracks, they notice Aeschere's head on a tall mountain. They follow the lead, and Beowulf enters a deep ...
4 hari yang lalu · Beowulf tore his arm from its socket and Grendel at last escaped, to flee into his bog and die. The arm became a trophy, the only physical evidence of the monster. The story omits an exact description of Grendel. While the arm was huge and hard and scaly, Grendel is otherwise depicted as a shadowy figure with but the hint of a man-shape.
5 hari yang lalu · Adapted and performed by Evan Quinlan, Beowulf and Grendel is reimagined into rather unimaginative 50-minute proportions. Its current realisation as a piece of live theatre is questionable, since ...
