Christian & Pagan Influences :: Essays Papers

Christian & Pagan InfluencesThere are Christian influences in the episode of Grendels Mothers attack. Primarily, the Christian influence is seen Norton text(43)Grendels mother, woman, monster-wife, was mindful of her misery, she who had to dwell in the terrible water, the cold currents, afterward Cain became sword-slayer of his only brother, his fathers own son. Then Cain went as an outlaw to flee the at rest life of men, marked for his murder, held to the wasteland. From him sprang many a devil sent by fate. Grendel was one of them, hateful outcast who at Herot found a argus-eyed man waiting his warfare. There a monster had laid take up upon him...Then he went off wretched, bereft of joy, to seek his dying place, enemy of mankind. And his mother, placid greedy and gallows-grin, would go on a sorrowful venture, avenge her sons terminal.Grendel is the spawn of the greatest sin in the Anglo-Saxon era -- fratricide. fratricide is the slaying of ones own brother. Cain was cursed by God, forced to have harshness in tilling the soil and was precondition a mark on his head. Gods wrath would not allow Cain to abandon his sin, by death, and his curse carried on throughout the life of mankind. To read the complete story of Cain and his brother Abel, detent here The sin of fratricide did not only mean consanguineous family, but applied to the murder of kinsmen.This portion of the Norton text deals with Beowulf and his root to Gods bedeck...but he was mindful of the great strength, the large gift God had given him and relied on the Almighty for favor, comfort and help. By that he overcame the foe, subdued the hell-spirit. This source provides a sense of Christian values and shows the heros dependency on God. correspond to the poet, Beowulf realizes that his strength comes from the Almighty rather than from his own merit. Beowulf is shown as a doughty warrior.