what are the major events in beowulf?
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rising action Grendel's attack on Heorot, Beowulf's defeat of Grendel, and Grendel's mother's vengeful killing of Aeschere lead to the climactic encounter between Beowulf and Grendel's mother. climax Beowulf's encounter with Grendel's mother constitutes the moment at which good and evil are in greatest tension.
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Inspired by the challenge, Beowulf sails to Denmark with a small company of men, determined to defeat Grendel. Hrothgar, who had once done a great favor for Beowulf's father Ecgtheow, accepts Beowulf's offer to fight Grendel and holds a feast in the hero's honor.
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-Beowulf goes to help Hrothgar because Hrothgar helped Beowulf's father when Beowulf was a baby. -After Beowulf was born his father got into a war with another tribe's warrior. The other warrior was killed by Ecgtheow (Beowulf's father).
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["Captain Scarlett and Her Pirate's Booty.", "Mr. Torgue's Campaign of Carnage.", "Sir Hammerlock's Big Game Hunt.", "Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep.", "T.K. Baha's Bloody Harvest.", 'The Horrible Hunger of the Ravenous Wattle Gobbler.', 'How Marcus Saved Mercenary Day.', 'Mad Moxxi and the Wedding Day Massacre.']
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['Approach of the Second Son. [03:27]', 'Austere Command. [05:05]', 'Sun Titan. [07:32]', 'Swords to Plowshares Swords. [11:48]', 'Smothering Tithe. [15:04]', 'Popper Burn. [16:50]']
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['The Burning Crusade (2007)', 'The Wrath of the Lich King (2008)', 'Cataclysm (2010)', 'Mists of Pandaria (2012)', 'Warlords of Draenor (2014)', 'Legion (2016)', 'Battle for Azeroth (2018)']
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There are in Beowulf more than 3100 distinct words, and almost 1300 occur exclusively, or almost exclusively, in this poem and in the other poetical texts. Considerably more than one-third of the total vocabulary is alien from ordinary prose use.
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Beowulf strikes the dragon in the head with his great sword Naegling, but the sword snaps and breaks. The dragon lands a bite on Beowulf's neck, and blood begins to flow. Wiglaf rushes to Beowulf's aid, stabbing the dragon in the belly, and the dragon scorches Wiglaf's hand.
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Heorot: In Beowulf, Heorot is a mead hall, a gathering place for warriors. Heorot belongs to Hrothgar, king of the Danes. Beowulf comes to Denmark in order to help Hrothgar by killing Grendel, the monster that has terrorized Heorot for twelve years.
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['\u200bGoddesses Set the Trojan War in Motion.', 'Paris Abducts Helen.', 'Trojan War Draft Dodgers.', 'Agamemnon and His Family.', 'The Action of the Iliad Begins in the Tenth Year.', 'Patroclus Fights as Achilles.', 'A Madman Kills and Disgraces Hector.', 'The Achilles Heel.']
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Major events: These are the most important events in a story, typically related to how the main character resolves a problem or handles a challenge. Sequence of events: This is the order in which the events in a story or text occur, or the order in which specific tasks are performed.
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Gilgamesh went out on a selfish journey to find eternity. Instead, he found the virtue of selflessness and the importance of being a leader. Beowulf on the other hand realized that happiness wasn't being the king, but being the hero who saved the day and battled evil. In contrast, the two heroes met different ends.
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["Theogony: Clash of the Titans. According to Hesiod's Theogony, in the beginning, there was only Chaos. ... ", 'Τhe Three Sisters of Fate. ... ', 'Prometheus and the Theft of Fire. ... ', "Pandora's Box. ... ", 'The Abduction of Persephone by Hades. ... ', 'The Name Giving of Athens. ... ', 'Theseus and the Minotaur. ... ', 'Daedalus and Icarus.']
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Beowulf's personal characteristics include the heroic traits of loyalty, honor, bravery, faith, and superhuman strength. He demonstrates his sense of honor and his loyalty to Hrothgar by volunteering to kill Grendel and then Grendel's mother.
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The order is The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, [The Adventures of Tom Bombadil if you wish to read the poems], The Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales (you can swap those two over if you want to read the longer Numenor tales before the whole history of The Silmarillion) and then the Histories. Highly active question.
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['The Tomb of the Stewards.', 'The Pyre of Denethor.', 'The Battle of the Pelennor Fields.', 'Victory at Minas Tirith.', 'Pippin Looks After Merry.', 'The Tower of Cirith Ungol.', 'The Last Debate.', 'The Land of Shadow.']
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['Hardhome.', 'Battle of the Bastards.', 'The Watchers on the Wall.', 'The Dragon and the Wolf.', 'The Winds of Winter.', 'Blackwater.']