The Research On England Epic Beowulf

Beowulf is the longest narrative epic in ancient British, and the mostcomplete and excellent epic at early medieval Europe period. It plays an importantrole occupies in the history of British literature even in the Europeanliterature. Beowulf tells a dramatic story about a hreo who named Beowulf killdemons and dragon, which have mythology feature and can be treated as amythology epic about hero. It mainly praise Beowulf’s spirit of heroism, promotethe consciousness of Christianity, and demonstrate the special cultural features inEngland in the period of Anglo Saxon. This essay mainly based on the content, plotand characters of Beowulf, aims to study this epic’s motif, metaphor, cultural ritualand religious consciousness. That can deeply understand the social system, ancientpeople’s value orientation and basic understanding of social life and morality inancient British period.