beowulf assignment
Rhetorical Situation
Consider the following: I’ve asked you to plan a mini-lecture about one of the following passages from Beowulf. Choose one passage and analyze your chosen passage as evidence for one of the poem’s larger themes. Imagine that your paper is the typed lecture you’ll read to the class.
- Shield’s funeral (Lines 26-50)
- Beowulf introduces himself to Hrothgar (Lines 407-455)
- Beowulf defeats Grendel (Lines 808-835)
- The queen gives thanks for Beowulf’s victory (Lines 1167-1190)
- Hrothgar reacts to the death of Aeschere (Lines 1321-1382)
