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Today’s Agenda

Today’s Agenda. Take roll & Explain homework for next class. Recap last class & Show synopsis of pages 47-80. Share brief video clips. PowerPoint: go over reading questions. Look at Joseph Campbell’s model for analyzing the universal concept of “The Hero’s Journey.” Handouts

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Today’s Agenda

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  1. Today’s Agenda • Take roll & Explain homework for next class. • Recap last class & Show synopsis of pages 47-80. • Share brief video clips. • PowerPoint: go over reading questions. • Look at Joseph Campbell’s model for analyzing the universal concept of “The Hero’s Journey.” • Handouts • Video Clips (about 20 min)

  2. Homework for next class • Read Beowulf 80-100 (line 2200 to end) • Do the 2ndBeowulf Reading Response. It’s posted online. • Read “The Wanderer” 112-13; “The Wife’s Lament” 113-14. • Think about the reading questions posted online under the class documents on the “The Anglo-Saxon Age” page. Thursday’s quiz will cover • Historical & geographic material in last week’s PowerPoint; • Reading/Discussion Set 1, Question #2 (back of yellow handout) • Some italicized words (not the titles) in the NA pgs 4-7 & 29-31 • Some pretty basic awareness of who characters in Beowulf are and what they do.

  3. Beowulf (NA 47-80): Brief Synopsis • Beowulf fights Grendel and fatally wounds him. • Celebration at Heorot, gifts, wergild, songs of Sigemund’s glory and of the tragic Finnsburg episode (which shows peace-weaving efforts gone awry). • Gifts and hospitality are especially interesting at NA 60-61. • Grendel’s mother comes to Heorot for revenge. • Beowulf goes after her & kills her, with her weapon, in her underwater lair.

  4. Beowulf (NA 47-80): Brief Synopsis • Another celebration at Heorot, with gifts and words of wisdom (on leadership and peace [69-73] that are contrasted with Queen M [74-5]). • Beowulf returns home to the land of the Geats & King Hygelac. • Beowulf comments on the fragility of peace-weaving (76-77). • Beowulf recounts his stay among the Danes and presents their gifts to the king. • The king, then, rewards Beowulf with a great gift and land.

  5. Some Especially Noteworthy Sections in Beowulf--we’ll look at these next class-- • On Women & Hospitality: NA 46, 59-61. • On the Significance of Treasure: NA 60. • On “Eternal Rewards” and Beowulf’s God: NA 71. • On Peace-Weaving: NA 76-77. • On Ubi-Sunt and Empty Treasure: NA 81. • On Loyalty and Treasure: NA 88-89. • On Legacy and Treasure: NA 99-100. • Treasure makes the world go round? • What lessons does the text leave us with?

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