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The Dragon and the Elegiac Ending — Homework
Read the assigned dragon-episode passage, including Beowulf's death and burial, before answering.
- 1.How many years pass between the Grendel's-mother episode and the dragon episode?
- 2.Explain how Wiglaf's actions during the dragon fight contrast with those of the other retainers.
- 3.Define "elegiac" and explain why it fits the tone of the poem's final episode.
- 4.In five or more sentences, explain what the poem seems to be saying about heroism and its cost, using specific evidence from at least two of the three monster episodes.
- 5.Write four or more sentences on whether a kingdom's safety depending entirely on one heroic individual, as Beowulf's does, is a strength or a weakness in a society's structure.
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