BEOWULF

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BEOWULF

• Introduction

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BEOWULF

• Marks the beginning of English literature
• Englands heroic epic
• Only surviving manuscript dates from around 1000

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BEOWULF

• Plot Summary
• The Danish king, Hrothgar, builds a mead-hall
  called Herot for his soldiers
• A monster, Grendel, begins to terrorize the
  Danish people
• Beowulf, the most powerful Geat, comes to help
  the Danes

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BEOWULF

• Themes
• Hero
• Loyalty
• Fate

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BEOWULF

• Characters
• Beowulf
• most powerful Geat
• Hrothgar
• Danish King
• Grendel
• Monster terrorizing the Danes

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BEOWULF

• Characters
• Higlac
• King of the Geats
• Unferth
• Danish soldier who taunts Beowulf