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From the analysis of e Confessions and Beowulf, it is clear that the two authors, e and the poet respectively, differ on their views of death, which helps to paint a better picture of the world that each writer lived in. In Augustine’s writings, death plays ....

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.... your soul to heaven; contingent of course on the fact that you were a Christian. “Yet in a moment, before we had reached the end of the first year of a friendship….you took him from this world (Confessions, 75).” “When all hope of saving him was lost, he was baptized as he lay unconscious (Confessions, 75).” This passage about e’s friend helps to illustrate that as death drew near in Augustine’s time, thoughts went to the after life in heaven. This hypothesis is furthered when Augustine writes about the death of his mother. “And so on the ninth day of her illness, when she was fifty-six and I wa ....