The tone of the poet with the treatment of Grendel and the dragon were different. When it came to the battle with Grendel, it was absolute that Beowulf would have succeeded. The dialect between him and the other characters was from a confident and excited individual. The dragon battle was presented so that the reader would know that he would die. Beowulf’s tone no longer had that eagerness like with Grendel. All of his speakers were his way of saying goodbye without using those words. The Anglo-Saxon society’s values were contributed the last battle with the dragon. A man’s courage and honor were important in those days. Anything less was disgraceful, and that is what happened when the majority of Beowulf’s men ran away instead of helping