The Iliad was written by the ancient Greek Homer in around the eighth century BC and the Song of Roland was written more than a thousand years later by an anonymous French writer in around the twelfth century AD. They are both classic texts, examples of the earliest known writings in their different languages and they have many features that are similar, and also some important differences. The most obvious similarities lie in the form of the two works. The poems are long works and so they are broken into shorter verses and chapters, which makes it easier for the performers to remember. There are many repeated phrases that are used to refer to individual characters or places. The content is also similar.
Please join StudyMode to read the full document. They are in the stories that are read to children when they are little. They are in movies that are seen by people of all ages. Almost everybody in this world has or has had a hero at one or more times in their life.
Compare and Contrast Between Shakesperean Tragic Heroes
Beowulf is an epic poem about a brave heroic man that comes and helps a king get rid a monster. An epic poem is a story about someone who has heroic like ideas in a society. Beowulf is a story that was sung by the bards and scops because that would be the only thing that will be passed on even after his death. It was written by the Anglo-Saxons, who did not believe in the afterlife, unlike Christianity. So the warrior would have to do something that would let his memory be passed on.
In the movie it says that Grendel is was his son that he had with his mother. The poem stated that Grendel was just a monster and not his son. After that last statement he jumped out of the building dying instantly. In Beowulf, the whole story leads one to believe that Grendel is a monster because of the killing sprees.