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An Analysis of British Literature
Death is inevitable and what happens after death will always be a
mystery to the living. For this reason, the afterlife has always been a
topic which artists have chosen to explore in their works. Throughout the
chronology of British literature, artists have used society's views as a
basis to examine the afterlife, and look at it in new ways. The afterlife
has been a theme in British Literat ....
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.... strong belief in fate led to them not fearing death as much as
during other times periods in British Literature. Beowulf's strong belief
in fate was a reflection in the society's pagan belief in fate. Due to the
fact that the society at the time of Beowulf was pagan, they did not
believe in the afterlife.
The Christian revision to Beowulf illustrated a different outlook
on death and the afterlife. When monks were copying the story, they
realized it dealt with paga ....
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