Hamlet
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Pages: 3
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death strictly as a personal failure, however, is to neglect the overwhelming emphasis given to fate in the last portion of the poem. The conflict with the dragon has an aura of inevitability about it; rather that a conscious choice, the battle can also be interpreted as a matter in which Beowulf has very little agency at all. Additionally, it is hard to blame him for acting according to the dictates of his worrier culture.
death strictly as a personal failure, however, is to neglect the overwhelming emphasis given to fate in the last portion of the poem. The conflict with the dragon has an aura of inevitability about it; rather that a conscious choice, the battle can also be interpreted as a matter in which Beowulf has very little agency at all. Additionally, it is hard to blame him for acting according to the dictates of his worrier culture.