Thesis Statement: There are 5 deadly sins used in the book and the most significant ones are Jealousy, Vengeance, and Greed,
Grendel, His mother and the dragon all have something in the book that makes them evil. Each of what Grendel, his mother and the dragon symbolize is the deadly sins from the bible, now there 5 used in the book but there are 3 that are really significant in the book those would be Jealousy, Vengeance, and Greed, now why are these so significant well if you continue to read you will learn why. There are 5 deadly sins used in the book and the most significant ones are Jealousy, Vengeance, and Greed.
1st major point: Jealousy
The whole reason Grendel went through and killed everyone in Herot is because he was jealous of the knights of Herot. Grendel didn’t live a life people want to have—banished, rejected, alone, hated. He was constantly reminded of his pain and misery by the joyful people of Herot. That is the reason he killed Hrothgar’s friends. Grendel was jealous of the people who weren’t banished by God. He was seeking their life, and took their life instead of changing his life. If only Grendel had spent time trying to change his own life instead of terrorizing everyone and killing them then he would have had a better life but instead he decide to be the “green monster” and killed and terrorized everyone, just imagine Grendel might have had friends if he had decided to be nice and kind about not having the life he wanted to have, it’s never good to be jealous of what others had. He shouldn’t have been jealous especially when there was probably some other monster out there that had it worse than he did.
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The 2nd main point: Vengeance
Now even though Grendel’s mother doesn’t go and kill anyone and everyone after her son dies she does get mad that the Danes killed her son and she becomes vengeful and decides to take matters into her own hands by killing the king’s best friend. Grendel’s mother represents vengeance. Grendel’s mother is also an outcast within the society and a descendant of Cain. She is not so vengeful that she goes on a killing spree, but vengeful enough to attack the mead hall at night. After she takes King Hrothgar’s, “most beloved/ of the friend’s between the two seas,” (l 1296-1297) Now in today’s time what Grendel’s mom did would be not good, if living in the time the story of Beowulf is written and something happened to someone I care about I would do what Grendel’s mother did but the only problem with doing that in today’s time is that it is illegal to kill anyone.
The 3rd major point: Greed
Many people hold on to things that are special to them that may remind them of someone they love. The dragon held onto this treasure, which is useless now, so long that he was able to know exactly what was gone and he must have had it back. The dragon represents greed. The goblet though had no specific meaning which is why the Dragon represents greed he was holding on to something that had no specific meaning or value to someone that the dragon may have loved, I could understand if it was something that had a special value but it doesn’t all it was is a goblet that the dragon stole.
The Conclusion
There are 5 deadly sins used in the book and the most significant ones are Jealousy, Vengeance, and Greed, the 3 major points covered in this paper are how Grendel mainly represents Jealousy, Grendel’s mom mainly represents Vengeance and the dragon mainly represents Greed. Now being that I am a Christian I don’t want to show any of these sins, sometimes I may show these sins in ways I act but no Christian should be jealous, vengeful or greedful.
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