Your choices are: The fight between Grendel’s Mother and Beowulf. The fight between Beowulf and the Dragon. While this is listed as a Descriptive Essay, it may be easier to think of it as a creative writing assignment.
Prompt: Your goal is to write a five-paragraph, creatively-descriptive essay on one of the three
scenes listed below.
As the story is lacking many of the sensory details you need to include in this essay, your
objective is to include them — as you interpret or imagine them — as you write.
Your choices are:
The fight between Grendel and Beowulf
The fight between Grendel’s Mother and Beowulf
Further, the fight between Beowulf and the Dragon
While this is listed as a Descriptive Essay, it may be easier to think of it as a creative writing assignment. The details we’re looking for in this essay exist in your head. What you see, feel, hear, smell, and taste when reading this scene is entirely up to your choice
More details;
arkness comes and Beowulf lies down beside his brave men. His soldiers are sure they will not see their country again. Under the mist the monster creeps towards Heorot.
The soldiers are sleeping, but one man keeps watch without blinking. It is Beowulf. Like a long shadow Grendel comes gliding. His hairy hands rip the hall door off its hinges. A horrible light glows from his eyes. His heart is joyful when he sees so many sleeping in the hall, a fine feast for him. He must start straight away.
He grabs the sleeping soldier near him, snaps his bones and tears him to pieces with claws and teeth. Grendel stuffs the dead man down in huge mouthfuls, greedily gulping. In no time he has eaten him all, even the hands and feet.
Grendel puts out his hand to seize the next sleeping man, but that man’s hand comes up to meet him, grasping the monster’s hand firmly in such a strong grip that Grendel is afraid. His finger joints are cracking. He has never felt a greater hand-grip. He wants to run back to the moors, to hide in the mist, to find his own home. Even so, he cannot get away any quicker, for Beowulf has pinned his arm down.