The hero embodies, the virtue that people should have, for example, courage, loyalty.
Beowulf crosses the sea and arrives in the land of Danes, here he has to kill Grendel.
Grendel is a monster who embodies the evils of society.
When he returns in his homeland he became king for fifty years, when he has to kill another monster, a dragon.
This dragon terrifies his land when he kills Grendel, his mother and the dragon he dies.
It was written in verse, there are a lot of assonance and alliteration to improve the memorization, this poem was oral, but after was written in verse,
