Beowulf
... from the terror caused by an evil dragon. “The King of Glory had posted a lookout who was a match for Grendel, a guard against monsters … And the Geat people placed complete trust I n his strength of limb and the Lord’s favor.” This is Beowulf’s description found just before fighting Grendel. It clearly states that God has placed Beowulf in this specific situation for a specific reason; to liberate these people from a creature who has the power of thirty men. This suggests Beowulf is “superhuman” or possesses supernatural powers just as Christ was fully God and fully man simultaneously. “Now the Holy God has, in His goodness, guided him here to the West-Danes, to defend us from Grendel.” This is perhaps the most compelling evidence of Beowulf’s connection with the Almighty, just as Jesus was sent by the Almighty. Beowulf, the protagonist, is directly connected to Christ, just as the antagonists are paralleled with Satan in the Bible. “Grendel was the name of the grim demon haunting the marches; … Cain’s clan, whom the creator had outlawed and condemned as outcasts.” Grendel, the monster/demon who terrorized the helpless at Hearot, is a descendent of the “outlawed”. He is demonic, making him a servant of Lucifer, who appears to Christ in the Bible. Not only is Grendel a symbol of evil within the Bible, but the dragon that slays Beowulf is also associated with Satan. “Unyielding, the lord of his people loomed by his tall shield, sure of his ground, while the serpent looped and unleashed itself.” Not only does this compare Beowulf to Christ in the first portion, but it correlates the dragon with the Serpent of the Old Testament, coiling as it appeared to Adam in the Garden of Eden. Both the protagonist and the antagonist are compared with one another when analyzing the Bible and Beowulf. Not only are the characters representing each other in both works, but the stories are very similar as well. As Christ gave his life for His people, we see Beowulf doing the same for his. Beowulf, as Christ did, overcame the powe...