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The Differences Between Beowulf The Book And Beowulf And Grendel

The book Beowulf was an interesting and unique book. It was filled with detail and vivid images. The movie Beowulf and Grendel was shot in beautiful location. The movie was made in two thousand and four, while the book was long ago then written down hundreds of years after it was made. The book and movie have similarities and differences.

There were similarities in these two items. They both had the same character names. The locations in both were that of the same. They both dealt with Grendel killing the Danes. They both talked of Beowulf and the Geats coming from across the sea to aid there allies in the fight against the monster. Grendel’s mother in both is cut down by a two handed sword.

The difference stuck out the most in these two. In the book Beowulf is like a god, while in the movie he is just a man. They adjusted the movie to fit modern expectations. Grendel in the movie is a troll who wants revenge for the death of his father, who they killed because he took a fish from the Danes. While in the book he is a blood thirsty monster. In the movie Grendel mother lives in the water and try’s to take men while they boat are in the water. In the book she doesn’t show up till Grendel is killed. In the movie Grendel is more human to, while in book he is just a evil demon. While the Geats are in the mead hall Grendel doesn’t attack them till the third time. He doesn’t want to kill them because they didn’t wrong him. In the book the first night they are in there he come up to one and kills him and eat his head. Then he goes up to Beowulf and Beowulf grabs him and starts beaten Grendel up, while he is naked ( he fights Grendel naked to make it far and show that he fights fair). In the movie Grendel breaks down the door, the Geats charge him and he throws them around. Then Grendel kills the one who wronged him then try’s to run away, but Beowulf chases him and gets a rope around his arm. Thus Grendel jumps out of the building, but then he is hanging in midair so he cuts off his own arm. In the book they fight Beowulf grabs his arm and rips it off. In the movie Grendel has a kid with a witch. In the book he has no son. In the book Grendel doesn’t kill other people while the Geats are in the town, while in the movie he kills Danes while the Geats are sleeping. There is a priest in the Movie who baptizes the Danish king, while the novel mentions no priest.

As you can see there are more differences between the movie and the book. But rall the movie is more believable. In the movie he can’t hold his breath for hours and kill sea monsters. The book is way too poetic for me the movie they don’t speak in a poetic voice. The book is very poetic and different from the movie

References MLA, 1984. Liuzza, R.M. “Appendix E: Translations of Beowulf.” In Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by R. M. Liuzza.

Beowulf and Grendel 2004

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www.beowulfandgrendel.com