Compare the sections of Beowulf discussed in class with the analogous sections of the computer-animated film
screened during the three Beowulf lectures available on Canvas. Be sure to mention the following:
1) How the explicit nature of film, which provides graphic visual detail of all events in the story, contrasts with
literature, which leaves many details up to the imagination of the reader.
2) How the differences between how Beowulf’s encounter with Grendel’s mother is portrayed in both the poem
and the film may be rooted in the different moral expectations of the eras in which these two works were
produced.
3) How the differences between how Beowulf’s battle with the dragon is portrayed in both the poem and the
film may be rooted in the different cultural expectations (with regards to aging) of the eras in which these two
works were produced.
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