Beowulf
From One Generation of Readers to the Next Generation of Viewers
For years, Hollywood has taken many pieces of literature and turned it into something on the big screen. They have taken stories from great writers such as Edgar Allen Poe, J. R. Tolkien, and Stephen King. They have transformed their works and put them on the silver screen with movies such as, Lord of the Rings and Storm of the Century. Hollywood has even been able to take an epic poem written so long ago that its date of manuscript is unknown. The epic poem is about the life, battles, and death of the heroic king of the Geats, Beowulf. Beowulf, is an epic poem of a great warrior and defender of evil from those who are innocent. In Beowulf, the reader is brought into a world of kings and monsters through stories of Beowulf's battle with Grendel, Grendel's mother, and a mighty dragon.
Grendel has said to be a descendant of a giant race that survived the great flood of Genesis, and he has even been classified as a......
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