Beowulf Dialectical Journal 17-30

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Dialectical Journals 17-30


17. "Sometimes the queen herself appeared, peace-pledge between nations, to hearten the young ones and hand out a torque to a warrior, then take her place." 2017-2020

Here, Beowulf speaks highly of the queen. By the queen's speech, he takes away that she is a peace-pledge between nations, and she used her position to inspire courage into the hearts of the soldiers.



18. "The friend of the Shieldings favors her betrothal: the guardian of the kingdom sees good in it He foresees the grim and hopes this woman will heal old wounds consequence of a proposed marriage and grievous feuds. "  2027-2030

Freawaru, the daughter of Hrothgrar will act as an olive branch between Shieldings and Heathoboards. Her name means 'merchandise', which might be a symbol of what her role is in the storyline, and nothing more. 



19. "I had done him no wrong, yet the raging demon wanted to cram me and many another into this bag—" 2090

Here, Beowulf being clueless as to why Grendel showed so much rage towards Heorot, the Danes, and him is expressed. He didn't know why Grendel was cursed, or the fact he was cursed in the first place.



20. "And although he got away to enjoy life's sweetness for a while longer, his right hand stayed behind him in Heorot, evidence of his miserable overthrow as he dived into murk on the mere bottom." 2096-2100

This line said by Beowulf shows his pride and success as he ripped Grendel's arm apart with his bare hands; as well as the his account of how he shamed Grendel by the act, and which eventually killed him.



21. "Hence, as is well known, I went to my encounter with the terror-monger at the bottom of the tarn."  2135-2135

Beowulf went down to Grendel's lair to kill his mother, and he describes his encounter with her in this part.



22. "These, King Hygelac, I am happy to present to you as gifts." 2149

Beowulf is modest in his success, so when he receives gifts from Hrothgar, he carries them to Hygelac and presents those to him instead of claiming them for himself.



23. "He had been poorly regarded for a long time, was taken by the Geats for less than he was worth: and their lord too had never much esteemed him in the mead-hall." 2183-2187

Even though Beowulf was probably the most powerful and mighty man of that time, he was still regarded for less and valued a lot lesser than he was in the time when this story is being told.



24. "...they came against him and his conquering nation, and with cruel force cut him down so that afterwards the wide kingdom reverted to Beowulf..." 2208-2210

The Shylfings killed Hygelac and his son in battle and that left the Geats' land unprotected; here Beowulf is reintroduced as the Geats' new king.



25. "He had handled and removed a gem-studded goblet; it gained him nothing, though with a thief's wiles he had outwitted the sleeping dragon; that drove him into rage, as the people of that country would soon discover." 2216-2220

Here, the person that stole the goblet from close to the dragon gains nothing of significance; but the consequences of that action nearly breaks the Geats.



26. "the last of their line, could look forward to nothing but the same fate for himself: he foresaw that his joy in the treasure would be brief." 2240

The person who is last in the line of the inheritance that has been buried in the dragon's lair knew that his fortune is now lost to him because of the dragon being there all the time; also foreshadowing the fact that the dragon is about to unleash its wrath somewhere"



27. "Then an old harrower of the dark happened to find the hoard open, the burning one who hunts out barrows..." 2271-2274

The dragon near which that treasures were kept finds out that his hoard is gone; so he awakes and
takes off for taking revenge on the person who stole the hoards that he strove out to find.



28. "The first to suffer were the people on the land, but before long it was their treasure-giver who would come to grief." 2309-2311

The dragon's main purpose was to get the man who had stolen its hoard but it didn't care much about who died in his way to get to the culprit.



29. "After many trials, he was destined to face the end of his days in this mortal world; as was the dragon, for all his long leasehold on the treasure." 2341-2345

This line foreshadows the possibility that Beowulf may lose his life in the battle with the dragon; also stating that both sides will suffer mortal loss.



30. "Yet there was no way the weakened nation could get Beowulf to give in and agree to be elevated over Heardred as his lord or to undertake the office of kingship." 2374-2377

Even though queen Hygd had no trust in her son's ability to rule the Geats and requested Beowulf to be king, Beowulf refused the offer because of his modesty and rather guided prince Heardred through his kingship until he died in the hands of Ohthere's sons.


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