The Theme Of Father/Son Relationships In Beowulf & The Song Of Roland
The Theme of Father/Son Relationships in Beowulf & The Song of Roland
Thomas Lazzaro
Professor Fisher
Literary Patterns of European Development Paper
#1 2/6/97
The representation of father-son type relationships in early Medieval
literary works is a key theme early authors used to give their works more depth
and meaning. Two works that use the theme of father-son relationships are
Beowulf and The Song of Roland. In Beowulf, the relationship between Hrothgar
and Beowulf is one in which there is no actual blood father-son tie, but the two
characters take on all the characteristics of a real father son relationship.
Hrothgar, although Beowulf's senior, has to rely on this new warrior who comes
to Heorot to help him rid his kingdom of a great danger which he can not get
rid of by himself, and Hrothgar treats him as if he were his own son. In The
Song of Roland, Charles' relationship with his nephew Roland also takes on the
characteristics of a father-son type relationship. In......
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