Throughout history, writers have always written to try to lure reader into their text. Whether it’s the modern day and the book cover is created well or the first of literatures with relations to god. Either way, authors need to get their information out there make making it appealing. In the modern day, journalist use different styles of writing to targets different groups of people. They can easily sway a person’s opinion by their choice of wording. This is exactly was Chaucer is able to do in a time period when the church was the government. Chaucer was able to openly publish controversial information without being at the back end of anger and backlash. Chaucer, being an iconoclast, was able to use satire to critic three aspects of society; the church, patriarchy, and the class system.…show more content… When Beowulf hears about a monster, Grendel, has been tearing through a kingdom and leaving it in chaos he runs straight into the destruction and asks the king to fight and kill Grendel. A subtle detail is written about him before he goes to the king, he removes his armor and sword to show that he is friendly and not an assassin. Then his request to fight Grendel reveals his unbelievable power. “I have heard, Too, that the monster’s scorn of men is so great that he needs no weapons and fears none. Nor will I, (Lines. 261-264)” He fights Grendel with no weapons or armor because he is honorable and believes that fighting Grendel with items that he does not use would be dishonorable. Therefore, leaving the first battle with a lesson of respect and
