Thursday, May 21, 2020

The Power of Faith in the Poem, Beuwulf - 1425 Words

Faith is that one intangible aspect of humanity whereby empirical evidence is innately and fundamentally unnecessary to its power. When certain events occur that cannot be explained by proof then one can attribute it to devotion and divine intervention. Did Beowulf achieve his victories because of his warrior skills, or because of that divide intervention? In the poem, Beowulf, this idea is brought up throughout when Beowulf is successful in his battles. According to the epic poem, it is God’s intervention that helped Beowulf. In other words, Christianity is interrelated with other ideological systems in the text such as chivalry and paganism. Furthermore, it is also indicated that his success may be due to his own power and skill as a warrior, as if it were his fate that led to his triumph. He was destined to be a great warrior and so this was what contributed to his victories. This grapple to know what is the real cause of his successes highlights the contradiction between Pagan and Christian beliefs that are shown throughout the poem. Since it can be argued that this poem was written to possibly start changing Pagans to Christians and there are such Pagan beliefs mentioned it is sensible to say that the Christian beliefs were the new ones being pushed. The Pagan beliefs were there first and so it can be assumed that Beowulf’s success was due to his fate. Beowulf is introduced in the poem as being wise, this start shows the individual greatness of Beowulf (207). Later on

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