Homeland Insecurity: Biopolitics and Sovereign Violence in Beowulf

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Medieval Literature: Article Analysis
The article "Homeland Insecurity: Biopolitics and Sovereign Violence in Beowulf" by Adam Miyashiro showcases rivals in the early medieval in the northern side of Europe. The writer states that most of these kinds of insecurity are witnessed today. This article highlights the most common things seen or experienced today, including political instability, violence in our homes, and racialism, among many others. In this case, the essay analyzes the article Homeland Insecurity: Biopolitics and Sovereign Violence in Beowulf.
In this particular article, Miyashiro showcases how Danes fear Grendel. She said that specific fear arose due to Biopolitics during that time. This means that Grendel and his mother usually function on a given sort of "proto-indigenous" section or level (Miyashiro 384). Such kind of behavior is the one that threatens Danes, "political and territorial stability." When you closely look at the behaviours of these two, both the mother and the Grendel, it eventually disrupts Danes's lives, which portrays them as a mere "violent." (Miyashiro, 386). In the same concept, Dane points out that Grendel, in the poem, is perceived as a "banished figure who can kill without murdered." This typically brings him to an excluded level or place whereby he is occupied with many indigenous folks who, in the past, have been victims of colonizers. Grendel has gone through many issues that make him rough and violent. The people around him have changed his character, and he becomes more violent toward others, including Dane.
The rune, popularly transcribed as epel, is written in its first or original runic way throughout the initial section of Beowulf. According to the writer, Miyashiro, all this was intentional. It was an effort put into the poem to typically "not only antiquate in the text but to stress the power of antiquity in the foundations of sovereign power." Miyashiro's continued argument encodes how Grendel and his mother are perceived as indigenous. This language ties Dane's concept, which mainly focused on 'homeland' strongly to the history or past. This could imply that these specific places Grendel and his mother are defending so much are not, in fact, their homeland (Miyashiro, pp389). By any chance, this kind of interpretation ensued; Heorot, showcased as a haven for the best warriors of Hrothgar, is typically erected on the stolen land occupied by the colonist.
The above information lends to another block of liminality that encompasses Beowulf's story, which mainly shifts the borders amid the roles of a villain and a hero. With all the evidence tabled by the Miyashiro, Grendel possesses some traits of a cannibalistic monster. Moreover, Grendel can be termed as a more tragic hero who fights in an ironic hopeless battle against those determined to exterminate his mother (Miyashiro, pp392). He is more than willing to deal with those who are ready to destroy him and his family, which is his mother. On the other hand, Hrothgar, portrayed as a well-built and admirable warrior, is typically an invader who is ready and seeks to invad...