Two Beowulf's?

    

sited: 60 Second Recap.(2012). Beowulf. Retrieved from http://www.60secondrecap.com/library/beowulf/

Even though I believe Beowulf was poorly written because of all the missing blanks throughout the novel I still enjoyed the story line that it tells. The missing pieces of the story overtime have been filled and answered by many different authors and film producers with their own imaginations to what they feel fits the story best. However, we have seen from the remade Beowulf films that the original plot is sometimes lost within the imagination of the film maker. In the novel and films we see different sides of the monsters with the story Beowulf and this is why I have chosen them to be my topic.

The major changes between the film and novel are an interest to me because of the wonder of why they are so different. In the film there is romance but in the original novel there is not which affects the story massively, and another small change is that in the film Beowulf is shown to be vainer and some would say "more" full of himself than the novel depicts him to be.

Beowulf's base plot that doesn't change though is that he is known across the land as a demon slayer capable of god like strength. Beowulf travels across the sea to Hrothgar's kingdom after hearing of a 12 year plague on the kingdom from a demon named "Grendel." Beowulf is victorious against his battle with Grendel and the kingdom is once again safe until Grendel's mother takes her revenge on the kingdom for the death of her son. After this Beowulf journeys to her liar, but at this point the film and the novel start to go two separate ways in their story line.