Beowulf’s Theme Fealty
Beowulf is an amazing epic poem with great quests and epic fight scenes throughout the story. It also had many depressing and sad moment placed in the poem also. In this poem it has many recurring themes placed by the author throughout the poem. One of the central themes of Beowulf, is embodied by its title character, is fealty. At every step of his career, fealty is Beowulf's guiding virtue. Fealthy means a feudal tenants or vassals sworn loyalty to a lord. Throughout the poem, there were many great examples of fealty in the epic poem Beowulf. The theme of fealty in Beowulf manifests itself in the following ways throughout the story..
One Example is when Beowulf comes to the assistance of the Danes. Certainly he is interested…show more content… Beowulf believes that they are very Fealty to the him. Although the now elderly king insists on taking on the dragon alone, he brings along the eleven in case he needs them. When it is apparent that Beowulf is losing the battle to the dragon, all but one of his men run and hide in the woods. Showing that his men lied when they vowed to die to protect their king. But in that group one man stood his ground. His name was Wiglaf, he was an inexperienced thane who has great respect for his king, by not ruining away, he showed that he was still loyal. So Wiglaf being the last of beowulf's men left, he charges into the duel between beowulf and the dragon. With Wiglaf standing beside the old man, they gained the upper hand in the fight. Eventually the two heroes eventually take down the dragon with a fatal wound to its stomach. But at a great cost. With the king now dying in Wiglaf arms. He calls out to the others who ran away as a coward and betrayed the king.“Wiglaf son of Wellston spoke disdainfully and disappointment, anyone ready to admit the truth will surely realize that the Lord of men who shower you with gifts and gave you armor you're standing in when he was distributing helmets and Mail-shirts two men on the mead-benches at Prince treating his thans in the hall to the best that he could find far or near - was
