Destiny or Not? Analysis of Beowulf and pre-determined destiny

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<Tab/>In the poem, Beowulf by an anonymous author fate plays a key role in keeping Beowulf alive and letting him be victorious in all his battles. Death, that driving force behind the lives of men, is not a decision made by man, but by an unalterable inevitability set forth by the controlling forces of fate and destiny. According to the priests, God gives Beowulf the strength of thirty men in …

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…lives depending on their instincts. Beowulf lives with many super hero qualities given to him by God. God makes all of men with specific qualities, and he spent much time making Beowulf; Beowulf fights for God to rid the world of the evil that comes from Cain. Beowulf accepts his plan and lets God give him unchangeable victories against those foes. Beowulf knows that though he dies by the dragon, his final battle is victorious.