(from class of course :)) How -are- you supposed to do emoticons at the end of parentheticals? ( :] )?
1. What was the importance of oral tradition in the time of Beowulf? Does it still have importance in our time?
2. What role did gold and treasure play in the poem? (Relate to Iliad and Odyssey?)
3. Who are our praised heroes today and are any of them lasting heroes? Or are they all transitory, like, just, temporal celebrities that do not last more than a couple generations?
4. What do you think the poem as a whole says about greed?
5. Was Beowulf a tragic hero? If so, what was his tragic flaw? (Something really interesting brought up in class was the difference between Greek-ish tragedies and Germanic tragedies.)
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