In the poem “Beowulf” written by an unknown author and created around the 8th century, there is a major presence partially hidden through the whole poem which is Death and it presents itself numerous times during major moments, mostly fights that always end up in the demise of the enemy and later the hero himself demonstrating a major theme in the story that fate cannot be avoided. To start with, Beowulf is a poem that is already filled with glorious epic battles, descriptive violence, and seemingly invincible monster capable of great destruction that must be defeated by the incredibly strong hero; so unsurprisingly death is not a particularly strange occurrence, in fact the poem actually mentions that it can’t neither be controlled nor halted. For example in line 440-441 there is a brief sentence that goes as, “Whichever one death fells must deem it a just Judgment by God”, this quote even gives more insight in the subject of fate and religion impact in the poem by saying that God is the only …show more content…
This makes them rely on their courage and strength, they can only hope to survive, and gain some glory for their names, when great battles approach. This important trait was remarked in line 691-696 that said, “None of them expected he would ever see is homeland again or get back to his native place and the people who reared him, they knew too well the way it was before, how often the Danes had fallen prey to death in the mead-hall”. It gives us, the readers, an insight of how determined these warriors were to their cause and although they weren’t really fond of the idea of dying it didn’t really paralyzed them with fear neither, mostly they just accepted it, and the only thing they really could do was to fight with all the strength they