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Looks great, Claire! Good thesis and examples.

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Looks great, Claire! Good thesis and examples.

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Works Cited

Heaney, Seamus, translator. Beowulf. New York, W. W. Norton and Company, 2000.

Milton, John. Paradise Lost. Edited by John Leonard, Penguin Classics, 2000.

Shakespeare, William. Julius Caeser. Edited by Roma Gill, Oxford UP, 1998.

Upchurch, Michael. "'Beowulf' Gets a 21st Century Update." The New York Times, 3 Aug. 2018, Book Review sec.

Wallace, David Foster. "This is Water." Kenyon College Graduation, 21 May 2005. Speech.

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trace perspective/lense throughout whole essay

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-David Foster Wallace, "This is Water"
-Prompt quote: “Reading sensitive and lengthy explorations of people’s lives, ... literally putting yourself into another person’s position — [into] lives that could be more difficult, more complex . . . can lead to more empathy and understanding of other lives.”

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As the concept of the hero and monster changes over the centuries, readers use literature to understand the importance of perspective when judging others, altogether leading to a more empathetic audience.

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-Lines from act 1 about cassius being Brutus's eyes.
-mirror n(brutus sees himself through cassius's lense-applies to all)
-Antony as the antagonist for Brutus but defending Caeser as a friend
-Brutus as the "noblest roman of them all"

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The protagonist of the play "Julius Caeser," Brutus, seems to represent a tragic hero however, the repeated motif of perspective shows the audience that heroes and villains depend entirely upon the opinion of the person.

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-Satan speaks of god as a tyrant
-Satan rallies his soldiers
-Satan as a sort of martyr
-This book having been written in a time where everyone would've known Satan's origin story

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"Paradise Lost" tells the story of the truly unlikely hero, Satan, and in doing so, puts the audience in Satan's position and shows the readers the possible faults in their prior understandings of "evil."

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-Beowulf was the hero yet still did bad things (hubris)
-mother dying for grendel
-article we read in class which was a modern retelling of the story from the mom and grendel's POV

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Beowulf, a classic, ancient epic, seems, on the outside, to tell the story of a traditional fight between hero and monster, good and evil, but instead tells a lesson about the creation of monsters and misunderstanding within a society that survives on demonetization.

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Through the reading of the heroic and monstrous traits of the protagonists and antagonists in "Beowulf," "Paradise Lost," and "Julius Caeser," audiences learn to empathize with the "monster," and see how such labels are much more complicated than societally understood