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Characterization In Grendel Questions & Detailed Answers
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Characterization In Grendel Questions &Detailed Answers
Which statements accurately compare Beowulf and Grendel? Check all that apply.
- ANS -Beowulf characterizes Grendel as bloodthirsty, but Grendel shows Grendel's
gentler side.
-Beowulf is sympathetic to the humans, while Grendel shows the monster's
perspective.
Read the excerpt from Grendel.
It wasn't because he threw that battle-ax that I turned on Hrothgar. That was mere
midnight foolishness. I dismissed it, thought of it afterward only as you remember
a tree that fell on you or an adder you stepped on by accident, except of course
that Hrothgar was more to be feared than a tree or snake. It wasn't until later,
when I was full-grown and Hrothgar was an old, old man, that I settled my soul on
destroying him—slowly and cruelly.
What does the author use in this excerpt to develop Grendel's character? - ANS
Grendel's thoughts
Read the excerpt from Grendel.
, I clamped my palms to my ears and stretched up my lips and shrieked again: a stab
at truth, a snatch at apocalyptic glee. Then I ran on all fours, chest pounding, to
the smoky mere.
What does the author use in this excerpt to develop Grendel's character? - ANS
the creature's actions
Read the excerpt from Grendel.
Now and then some trivial argument would break out, and one of them would kill
another one, and all the others would detach themselves from the killer as neatly
as blood clotting, and they'd consider the case and they'd either excuse him, for
some reason, or else send him out to the forest to live by stealing from their
outlying pens like a wounded fox. At times I would try to befriend the exile, at
other times I would try to ignore him, but they were treacherous. In the end, I had
to eat them.
How is Grendel characterized in this excerpt? - ANS practical
Read the line from Grendel.
I was safe in my tree, and the men who fought were nothing to me, except of
course that they talked in something akin to my language, which meant that we
were, incredibly, related.
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