ENG 2105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Hildeburh
7 Oct 2013
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Hildeburh wealtheow (hrothgar"s queen, loses her children in battle) grendel"s. Mom (tries to get vengeance, ends up dead) Women who appear periodically in the beowulf, suffer. Their appearances remind you that from some perspectives, heroism isn"t always the greatest. Humble in the first half, proud in the second half. There are a number of times in the first passage when beowulf tells people how great he is. Humility in the second half; when he is dying he passes on his armor, talking about if he ever had a son. In the first half, he is 18, in the second part, he is older (around 50 years). On this occasion, although they are celebrating, you can anticipate that there are parts of this celebration that won"t be that happy. Every time you defeat a monster, there is more trouble. These victory celebrations are not celebrations because a monster always comes back.
