https://padlet.com/ireeves1/v7rk226gu1nb Characteristics of a Hero en-us 2016-08-23 01:05:27 UTC 2023-09-04 14:21:42 UTC hello@padlet.com ireeves1 https://padlet.com/ireeves1/v7rk226gu1nb/wish/119278464 Many times Beowulf displayed wisdom even when he was unaware of it. Like before the battle with Grendel he decided to take him on without the use of weapons, which would prove to one wise because Grendel cast a spell on himself that made it so that weapons could not harm him. He also realizes that Grendel's mother can't be killed by human weapons so he used a weapon that was found in the watery cave.]]> 2016-08-23 01:14:30 UTC https://padlet.com/ireeves1/v7rk226gu1nb/wish/119278464 ireeves1 https://padlet.com/ireeves1/v7rk226gu1nb/wish/119278582 Many times Beowulf displays many courageous feats such as defeating Grendel in hand to hand combat single handedly. Just before this when he arrived in Denmark he boasted about the many deeds he had committed while in Geatland. After he bested Grendel in combat this backed up his boast from earlier. Later he would go on to face Grendel's mother in her own lair. This was one of his greatest feats of bravery. His final feat of bravery was fighting alongside his most loyal thane against a dragon that was terrorizing his people.]]> 2016-08-23 01:15:56 UTC https://padlet.com/ireeves1/v7rk226gu1nb/wish/119278582 ireeves1 https://padlet.com/ireeves1/v7rk226gu1nb/wish/119278621 This is shown by the loyalty between Beowulf and King Hrothgar due to the kindness the king showed Beowulf's father when his enemies tried to kill him and he payed them a bounty in treasures. This is later shown when Beowulf is an old king of the Geats and his Kingdom is attacked by a dragon. When his thanes run away only one came back to help him due to his unwavering loyalty to his king, so he fights alongside his king and witnesses his death.]]> 2016-08-23 01:16:18 UTC https://padlet.com/ireeves1/v7rk226gu1nb/wish/119278621 ireeves1 https://padlet.com/ireeves1/v7rk226gu1nb/wish/119283439 2016-08-23 02:03:53 UTC https://padlet.com/ireeves1/v7rk226gu1nb/wish/119283439 ireeves1 https://padlet.com/ireeves1/v7rk226gu1nb/wish/120189929 " No weapons, therefore, for either this night: unarmed he shall face me if face me he dares." pg. 47]]> 2016-08-28 18:53:34 UTC https://padlet.com/ireeves1/v7rk226gu1nb/wish/120189929 ireeves1 https://padlet.com/ireeves1/v7rk226gu1nb/wish/120190437 "Then he saw a blade that boded well, a sword in her armory, an ancient heirloom from the days of the giants, an ideal weapon, one that any warrior would envy, but so huge and heavy of itself only Beowulf could wield it in a battle." pg.107/109]]> 2016-08-28 19:07:29 UTC https://padlet.com/ireeves1/v7rk226gu1nb/wish/120190437 ireeves1 https://padlet.com/ireeves1/v7rk226gu1nb/wish/120190807 "No help or backing was to be had then from his high-born comrades; that hand-picked troop broke ranks and ran for their lives to the safety of the wood. But within one heart sorrow welled up: in man of worth the claims of kinship cannot be denied." pg.175]]> 2016-08-28 19:15:50 UTC https://padlet.com/ireeves1/v7rk226gu1nb/wish/120190807 ireeves1 https://padlet.com/ireeves1/v7rk226gu1nb/wish/120191370 Beowulf .Trans. Seamus Heaney. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2001. Print.]]> 2016-08-28 19:31:48 UTC https://padlet.com/ireeves1/v7rk226gu1nb/wish/120191370