Loyalty Fate And The Chance Of Survival - 1629 Words

Felicity Miller Professor Donavan Monster and Marvels 14, October 2014 Loyalty: Fate and the Chance of Survival in Zipe’s Fairytales, Beowulf, and Gilgamesh Many different themes and topics are brought up in Zipe’s fairytales, Beowulf and Gilgamesh. An important theme that occurs in many of these stories is loyalty. In each story the common goal of loyalty is to create a strong feeling of support and allegiance to a kingdom, person, property, agreement, or item of importance. These strong feelings of support and allegiance relate to the beliefs and customs of the times during which they were written, the Old Testament from the Bible, medieval Culture, German culture, Swedish Culture, Scandinavian customs etc. Many of the stories strongly associate loyalty to a higher power. If the main characters in stories such as Hansel and Gretel, Gilgamesh, and Beowulf are loyal in all that they do, divine fate is with them and they are successful throughout the story. 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