The author uses Grendel's mother to show the little power women had through her fighting scene, "She sat on her hall-guest and drew her broad knife,/ a sharp weapon, to buy back her son,/ her only kinsman" (lines 1545-1547). The author uses the knife to symbolize the only little power Grendel's mother had as a woman against man. ... During this fight, Grendel's mother is given savage characteristics while Beowulf, on the other hand, is described as a prince who cannot lose. ... The author exhibits this in the passage because Grendel's mother is fighting for her so...

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