An epic poem about a warrior named Beowulf who went to the land of Herot in order to assist the king Hrothgar in battling a monster that is evil but intelligent name Grendel. Grendel was terrorizing the Hall of Herot built by the king for his warriors. Ripping the head of the warriors off, drinking their blood and fleeing back to his home. Beowulf who at the time was the greatest warriors know through out the land of Danes battle Grendel fairly and succeed on killing him by ripping his arm off and keeping it as a trophy. Grendel mother seeing the pain afflicted to his son, goes off and rip the arm of one of the king friend which result in Beowulf battling her and winning by trusting a giant sword to heavy for average human to carry into her chest and killing her. For his pride he goes off find Grendel, who was at his last breath and cut his head off as a trophy of the battle. Fifty years after the battle Beowulf, King of his land dies in a battle with a dragon and ask for a Tower to built in his name.
I Did not like Beowulf at all. The cause for that would be the fact that Beowulf should not be considered a hero because he did not fight for the people, but for his own glory. The king Hrothgar is an dependent person who could not save his people and was scared of fighting Grendel. In addition Beowulf is unpleasantly disgusting. Who keeps body parts of monsters as a trophy!?
If I were to take notes, The style that I would use would be the outline, because it is easier to write down what is happening by using the different parts as titles and writing down the most important details under it.
