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Fate or Free Will in Beowolf

Beowulf's Fate or Free Will Lori Mixon

In the epic Beowulf translated by Burton Raffel fate plays a major role in the characters lives. Characters allow fate to influence them and how they go about doing things. But is it really fate or peoples tendencies to do what they chose too. " Fate saves the living when they drive death away by themselves."(Pg. 9)

Is fate what brought Beowulf to prevail over Grendal? " The monster would have murdered again and again had not God, and the hero's courage, turned fate aside."(Pg56) Beowulf was not supposed to win but out of his own free will he prevailed and saves the Geats and many helpless people. Although when Beowulf went against Grendal he reli


Everything that Beowulf gains is according to him by fate. " The gifts that higlac gave me, and the land, I earned with my sword, as fate allowed" (pg100) He is ready to trust his life in fate. When he faces Grendals mother he says, " I'd use no sword, no weapon, if this beast could be killed without it, crushed to death like Grendal, gripped in my hands and torn limb from limb. But his breath will be burning hot; poison will pour from his tongue. I feel no shame, with shield and sword and armor, against this monster: when he comes to me I mean to stand, not run from his shooting flames, stand till fate decides which of us wins." (Pg101)

ed on God for all the help and he killed the monster as God had meant for him to do. Beowulf does not allow fa

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