Beowulf and Odiepus
Their different Conflicts
Beowulf fights Grendel
"When it comes to fighting,I count myself as dangerous any day as Grendel. So it won't be a cutting edge I'll wield to mow him down, easily as I might."
Beowulf fights the Dragon
"Hard by rock-face that hale veteran, a good man who had gone repeatedly into combat and danger and come through, saw a stone arch and a gushing stream that burst from the barrow, blazing, and wafting a deadly heat."
Oedipus confronts the Sphinx
"We've come because you are the best man at handling trouble or confronting gods. You came to Thebes, you freed us from the tax we paid with our lives to that rasping Singer."
Tiresias tells Oedipus the Truth
"Kreon isn't your enemy. You are."
Oedipus confronts Kreon
Kreon "What do you want? My banishment?"
Oedipus "No. It's your death I want."