Redcrosse Knight

Nurgul Zhanabayeva Alva Robinson Survey of English literature 9 November, 2012 A Comparison amidst Beowulf and Redcrosse ennoble At all times devil hi tommyrot and people valued heroes, who would be ready to sacrifice their lives for the pastime of a nation. As the history changed for the advance or for the worst, there were written a lot of literature works intimately the heroes of a time, who had devoted their cour successionous plant to people. Beowulf and Redcrosse Knight argon the examples of such(prenominal)(prenominal) pure(a) heroes in two different periods, The mall Age and The Early new-fashioned compass point.The story of Beowulf shows the spread of deliverymanianity in the early danish pastry paganistic society that valued heroic industrial plant and bravery above all else. Beowulfs heroism is shown in three break open conflicts, those with Gr final stageel, Grendels produce, and the sea monster. The Faerie tabby is written during the period delivere rianity had been spread among people protagonist Redcrosse knight represents a virtue of Holiness, and he is the only Christian engagework forcet against evil. Beowulf and Redcrosse ar example heroes, embodying traits typical of heroes courage, and near(a) whole kit and caboodle. The Faerie Queen, written during the Early Modern Period, narrates a big change in Christian religious thoughts and practices. Redcrosse Knight forwarders his befriend to Gloriana, Queen of Fairyland. Una, representing truth, places that the dragon of hell has captured her parents and that she require attend in ragting them free. Redcrosse decides to get her parents released . This demonstrates a hero, he will bear up under many severe trials and shake up tempestuous monsters and this in itself is a eccentric of a heroic knight. Not only does his armour protect his body and those who were with him, but besides being a Christian.He has the protection of Christ. For the Christian in order to be holy, he must drive home a received faith. Much of Beowulf is devoted to expressing and demonstrating the hero, in whom strength, courage, devotion to a nation, hospitality, generosity, political skill and rock-steady reputation among all people is valued. These are of great importance to such warrior societies as a right smart of understanding their relationships to the institution and the danger waiting outside their borders. Redcrosse Knight, on the other(a) hand, is a chivalrous hero. He must defeat villains who represent the untrue papistChurch. The qualities of loyalty, humility, sacrifice for the trade good of others, and sympathy for those who are less fortunate are set forth in the text as swell(p) as the negative consequences from greed and pride. He meets several evildoers, the dragon from hell, the evil virtuoso Archimago, Sansfoy and Sansloy, who has no faith, the liar and representative of the Roman Church, Duessa/Fidessa, and many others. These evild oers fight Redcrosse Knight with deceit, lust, and untruth. Therefore he must be armed with faith in Christ to get ahead the evils of the spiritual realm.As we can look, every bit Beowulf and Redcrosse Knight contribute a broad amount of bravery. They both(prenominal) defeat enemies that fill out or capture innocent people. They both constantly pray to Christ for help to win evil they meet and to have sympathy for those who suffer. These qualities, idealized by thanes and knighthood, such as bravery, courtesy, honour, and gallantry toward women are distinct in both Beowulf and Redcrosse Knight. One difference is that women in the Old English Period are not as meaning(a) as those in Middle age period. We see this in both poems. In Beowulf we only hear about Wealhtheow, Hrothgars queen, and Grendels return.However in The Faerie Queene, we see many women examples, Gloriana, Una, Duessa/Fidessa, Lucifera (Hell), Caelia (Heavenly), Fidelia (Faith), Sperenza (Hope), and Charis sa (Charity). In some way or another, Redcrosse and Beowulf have connections to these women, either good or bad. Additionally both heroes have a meeting with a character from hell. Beowulf dives into the lake, which is a personification of hell, where Grendels mother is waiting to attack. He cannot cut her with his sword, so he tosses it away and finds a larger sword killing Grendels mother by cutting her head off.He sees Grendels dead body nearby and cuts off his head as a dirty money and returns to Denmark . This expresses an weighty virtue, loyalty. Redcrosse Knight fights Lucifera (Queen of Hell) and other evildoers. He has been weakened by his visit to the family line of Pride. Although he had the instinctive good signified to flee from that castle, his conscience is still at work. This failure brings him near to death in the dungeon of Orgoglio, a giant that represents impertinent pride. Arthur, that represents magnificence, comes along and helps Redcrosse rise up from h is lowest state.Redcrosse also defeats the dragon. Here he is compared to Christ descended to hell to win Satan. Redcrosse enters the mouth of the dragon and finally kills it by the help of The channelize of Life and The Well of Life, which are the embroider of God given to mankind and which helps Christian in danger. No matter how well equipped or prepared the Christian is, he cant win the evil without the help of God. A core is given here, a true Christian with all his humility counts on God. other similarity of both these warriors is rewards for being heroes, nonetheless in very different ways.After Beowulf kills Grendel, he is considered the greatest hero in Danish history. Hrothgar says that Beowulf will never lack for riches, the horses and men of the Geats were all richly adorned, and a company was held to celebrate Beowulfs victory. Redcrosse Knight, on the other hand, will receive his reward in heaven. If he continues to live sinless and fight against evildoers he wil l receive gross(a) life. The battle will not end until the end of the world, when Christ will tell which religion is false and which is true. Meanwhile, a Christian believes that honour is gained by good deeds and glory lies in afterlife.In both poems, Beowulf and Redcrosse Knight developed from heroic warriors, who have such qualities as courage, generosity, sacrifice for the good of others, into politic leaders. Beowulf rises from a fearless warrior to a true king and Redcrosse Knight finally constitutes St. George, the admirer saint of England. Both showed the necessary characteristics to become very successful nobles. Though these two outlooks are somewhat oppositional, each character acts as society dictates. Beowulf acted as a hero-warrior and Redcrosse as a chivalric-warrior. However, their Christian set are somewhat similar.The images of warrior presented in both poems are significant roles that are important to Christian life Faith and Holiness. References Auerbach, Erich, Mimesis prototype of Reality in Western Literature, Translated by Willard Trask, Princeton Princeton University Press, 1971. Hadfield Andrew, The Faerie Queen, Cambridge Cambridge University Press, 2001. Heaney, Seamus, Beowulf A New verse line Translation, New York ed. , 2001. Niles, John. D, Beowulf The Poem and Its Tradition, Cambridge Harvard University Press, 1983.