A Comparison of the Weavers of Peace in Beowulf and Grendel :: comparison compare contrast essays

The Weavers of Peace in Beowulf and Grendel       sissy Wealhtheow and Queen Hygd work ond as excellent graphic symbol models for the courts in which they served. They exemplified the mannerisms and etiquette of the noble people. Queen Wealhtheow showed excellent poise from the very stolon of both texts. She was admirable as she passed the mead manger around Heorot. The offering of the bowl was symbolic, being that the bowl was first given to Hrothgar and then passed to Beowulf, as if she presented him with her trust. Beowulf gave Wealhtheow his check that he would be successful or die in battle. afterward she presented Hrothgar and Beowulf with the mead bowl she served the Scyldings, and did so as if they were her own people. She was not a Scylding, nor did she entrust to be one, but she never made her unhappiness known, as expound in Grendel. There is not great detail on Queen Hygd in Grendel, but from what the reader can gather from Beowulf, she is as of ten of a female agency model as Queen Wealhtheow. She was progeny but very intelligent. In fact queer Hygelac felt frighten by Hygds intelligence.             In both texts, Beowulf and Grendel, the main purpose of the promote are to serve the courts as weaver finchs of wild pansy. In Grendel, however, Queen Wealththeow is described in much greater detail and serves a further purpose. The reader gains perceptivity to a part Grendel that is not present in Beowulf, his desire for a human. For even though in Beowulf and Grendel, the main purpose of the queens is to serve the courts as weavers of peace, the queens also serve other purposes as role models, preservers of their kingdoms, emotional beings, mother figures and objects of beauty and lust. It was not unusual for women to be offered as tokens of peace within the noble courts. In the novel Grendel, Wealhtheows brother, King of the Helmings, bestowed her to King Hrothgar to promo te peace amongst the Helmings and Scyldings. She had given, her life for those she loved. So would any simpering, eyelash batting female in her court, given the proper setup, the minimal conditions(Grendel 102). It is ironic how she promoted peace from her arrival because she was an essential part in keeping peace, as the weaver of peace in both texts. Queen Wealhtheow however is not the hardly woman in the texts that was forsaken to encourage appeasement among feuding courts.