Throughout history, the ongoing battle between one’s pride and one’s fate remains undefeated. One’s pride distorts the distinguishable difference between reality and that of the imagination. Pride offers one the appearance of control over fate rather than allowing the essence of fate take its course. Poems such as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Beowulf exemplify the continuous conflict of illusion verses reality and how one cannot have both pride and the ability to accept one’s fate.
Gawain in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight feels as though he can control his fate when taking the belt in order to live for all eternity. He is offered a golden opportunity and finds himself at a weak moment, therefore taking the sash for his own protection. He fears his own inability to complete the task at hand and inevitably failing in the eyes of his peers. Gawains’ pride clouds his mind and removes the line between the possible and impossible. Desperate to find a solution to......

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Title: Beowulf
Approximate Word Count: 1372
Approximate Pages: 6 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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