Explain fatal trail reference

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Assignment:

explain "fatal trail" reference in the below passage. Describe in detail an analyzes how this "fatal trail" symbol illuminates your reading of the epic of Beowulf. Start by framing a thesis statement (claim) that reflects the referenced symbol and serves as an organizing principle for the analysis. Highlight your thesis and begin every paragraph with a topic sentence. In your analysis, you should feel free to identify themes, incidents, or even other symbols in the text that align with the "fatal trail" symbolism. The goal of your analysis is to enrich your reader's (and your own) understanding of the epic of Beowulf.

Passage (from Beowulf)

"His parting from life

hardly seemed sad to any man

who examined the trail of that inglorious one,

how he went on his weary way,

defeated by force, to a pool of sea monsters,

doomed, put to flight, and left a fatal trail.

The water was welling with blood there--

the terrible swirling waves, all mingled together

with hot gore, heaved with the blood of battle,

concealed that doomed one when deprived of joys,

he laid down his life in his lair in the fen,

his heathen soul--and Hell took him" (Beowulf, lines 841-852).

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