Part one of term paper
From the analysis of e Confessions and Beowulf, it is clear that the two authors, e and the poet respectively, differ on their views of death, which helps to paint a better picture of the world that each writer lived in. In Augustine’s writings, death plays a major role in life; it serves as the stepping stone to a greater existence in ...

Part two of term paper
... the writing, it is a very different perspective than the one shown by Augustine. In the writing of e, the reader gets a small glimpse of what life was like in the Roman Empire in the forth century, and more particularly how death was viewed during this period. According to the Confessions, life, though valued, was just a time spent before God chose to bring your soul to heaven; contingent of course on the fact that you were a Christian. “Yet in a moment, before we had reached the end of th ...