I thought that the story was interesting in a way that a true, brave, loyal and strong man was so committed into being a soldier and from the belief of God. fighting for his people protecting them at all costs risking the life of himself and his friends to fight Grendel an escaped evil demon that was killing everyone he and his compainions fought untill they finished to kill Grendel.
He succesfully accomplished his goal and kept his promise to the danes of killing Grendel, ripping of its hand to show proof of the killing. but then Grendels mother came for revenge of her son but then again Beowulf did not back down and went fighting with no doubts in mind killing the mother with a sword only a true strong man could use, he again defeated another demon winning the battle for the second time.
So, many years passed and also many adventures went by and Beowulf became very old, but then along came a fire breathing dragon burning up the land into where he lived and started mayhem and so then Beowulf as a soldier he used to be, thought he could be the one to kill the dragon using pure strength he trusted he was very confident and cocky becuase of his past accomplishments with Grendel and his mother but Beowulf was just too old and he really thought he was as a strong as he use to be, and for that he got bitten by the dragon and bled while poison slowly killed him.
Beowulf did illustrate well of the anglo saxons culture, in a way that they were very religious in believing God's might given to a warrior himself as said in the story; "Now a warrior, through God's might,has performed a deed we,in our wisdom, could not contrive".
i think that was the one part of the story that just stood out for me he was so determined to be a great soldier once again, he did not care for how old he was it didnt really matter to him he fought for prideness and was just so confident in himself that he was still great, and at the end death is where it got him. its just funny how some people still act like that as in the same form of confidence etc, and its been like that for hundreds of years untill now. some people just need to learn when it is time to move on with your life, i think its a good moral.
