Beowulf describes how good will always defeat evil. Even though Beowulf is not even physically capable of beating Grendel, he still overcomes him, because he is good. The poem starts out describing the great Meade Hall, and there are all these warriors that get drunk there. After the Meade Hall is glorified it goes on to tell how there is this great monster. Also, this great monster can hear the harps rejoicing from the Meade Hall, and the poets singing of the Almighty making the earth's beautiful plains (line 27).
             Then the story describes that the evil monster, also known as Grendel, is spawned of hell on earth, which shows that Grendel in this story represents evil. This is like hyping the monster's reputation so that it can foreshadow the coming of a great hero - Beowulf. Grendel then goes on a murderous rampage and renders the Meade hall lifeless, and enrages the great king Hrothgar ( owner of the Meade hall).1 Story of Grendel's rampages soon reach the ears of the local hero Beowulf, and he immediately outfits a boat and sails across some great British sea. He rushes to the king and finds his great Meade hall abandoned. He ends up setting up a trap for Grendel by boasting to the great king how he was going to defeat the great Grendel with his bare hands. This miss leads Grendel into thinking that he will be easy to kill. Untold to Grendel, Beowulf has taken half of his men with their weapons and hidden them. They attacked
             Grendel in vain, his skin was too tough to be pierced by a sword. Beowulf later ends up ripping Grendel's shoulder and arm out of its socket, because he could not kill him with his sword. Grendel escaped back to his layer to slowly die of his mortal wound. This proves that good will always overcome evil no matter what stands in its way.
             In the story of Beowulf, he could not kill Grendel with his sword so he mortally wounds him by taking his arm and shoulder right out of its socket. Beowulf had a cle...