AE Preliminaries

The Better Hero

 Sir Gawain and Beowulf both have different ways in which they are conspired heroes but who is the better hero. Beowulf is often praised for having strength and greatness along with wanting to achieve his personal goal. In the other hand sir Gawain is humble and also feeble minded but also weak compare to the other knights .Both have a goal and that is to protect what they believe and care . Beowulf  had a ending with success in protecting his town and will doing it giving his life. Sir Gawain did the same but for him not everything ended like he planed and earned a scarf that will forever remain intact . 

Quotes :

1."I am the weakest of your warriors and feeblest of wit;

 loss of my life would be leaset lamented.

Were I not your nephew my life would mean nothing;” […] (354 - 357)

2.“I have heard moreover that the monster scorns

in his reckless way to use weapons;
therefore, to heighten Hygelac's fame
and gladden his heart, I hereby renounce
sword and the shelter of the broad shield,
the heavy war-board: hand-to-hand
is how it will be, a life-and-death
fight with the fiend." (433-440)

3. There was less tampering and big talk then

from Unferth the boaster, less of his blather
as the hall-thanes eyed the awful proof
of the hero's prowess, the splayed hand
up under the eaves. Every nail,
claw-scale and spur, every spike
and welt on the hand of that heathen brute
was like barbed steel. Everybody said
there was no honed iron hard enough
to pierce him through, no time-proofed blade
that could cut his brutal, blood-caked claw. (979-989)

1.Sir Gawain id describing himself as not being the best even do the king is his uncle he will still give it him all to be the best in what he does .

2.Beowulf is telling his story on how he defeated monsters single handed with a sword and shield with no help of no one. He is bragging on how strong he is in a fight.

3. Beowulf is telling his story of how he was able to take Grandel down and how happy they are having his arm hanged from the wall . how he only had to use his strengths to take from him how it proves his a hero . and like everyone else said that not even a sword would not pierce him . he is proving everyone wrong of what they said even unferth " the boasster".