Beowulf/Grendel Trial or Debate Activity Debate: Two teams will debate the merits of Grendel’s viewpoint. The rest of the class will act as judges and rate the winning team. (ALL students will contribute to the debate by helping to suggest/refine talking points - each group will vote for members to participate in debate). Resolved: Since the world and everything in it is an unplanned accident‚ existence is meaningless ;the past is irrelevant; nothing matters. For: This team will take the
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Another lonely night for the monster Grendel. Back in his cave‚ where the fire flames cover the gloomy lake he calls home‚ he hid. The once blue and salmon sky was now transforming into an expanse of darkness‚ while the gleaming moon hid behind the clouds. He suddenly started to notice mysterious noises; monstrous heavy steps getting closer and closer to his refuge. He decided to wait quiet in his cave‚ but the very thought of those happy men laughing and drinking at the Hall made his anger ignite
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battle and heroic‚ the poem Beowulf and its spin-off novel Grendel are both literatures that detail characters and their deeds. Throughout the poem Beowulf‚ the author talks about men and their physical strength and appearances. On the other hand however‚ women are barely mentioned at all and are portrayed as weak and have none of the qualities that the men have. This paper will mainly focus on two of the most important female figures in Beowulf and Grendel-Wealtheow and Grendels mother. Theses two characters
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correctly in place so‚ the smallest defect can cause the gears to malfunction and generate chaos within the entire system. Correspondingly‚ Grendel in the novel and the monster in Frankenstein resemble these defects. Their being amongst their surrounding societies makes them realize what outcasts they are. Grendel in the novel is somewhat similar to the monster in Frankenstein because both are pained to not being able to accommodate with people‚ both are rejected by people‚ and both compare their situations
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Beowulf: An Epic Hero In the story Beowulf translated by Burton Raffel‚ Beowulf was an epic hero. He crossed the open sea‚ fought the monster Grendel with his bare hands‚ and he killed Grendel’s mother. Beowulf is an epic hero because he crossed a parlous sea to save a village from a man-eating monster named Grendel. Beowulf had to sail on a small ship through massive storms and sea monsters infested waters to travel to a place he knew nothing about. Beowulf had traveled to a village where
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16 February 2015 Grendel The figurative language and imagery found in Beowulf elaborately depict a tale of heroism and fate‚ complete with allusions‚ foreshadowing‚ alliterations‚ metaphors‚ and the like. Many of these literary devices are woven through Grendel’s place in the story‚ describing him as Cain’s spawn and giving life to his anger. The author allows the reader to experience the terror that men in the mead hall felt when Grendel claimed the lives of those among them. Beowulf is drawn together with great thought and skill
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English 12A Unit I: Part Two “Focus on Literary Forms: The Epic” from Beowulf‚ translated by Burton Raffel Name_________________________________________________ Date____________________ Vocabulary Builder Word List (p. 38) loathsome massive purge reparation solace writhing A. DIRECTIONS: For each underlined word‚ substitute a word or phrase with the same meaning. Write it in the blank following the sentence. 1. Only a hero of Beowulf’s strength
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Who is the Real Grendel? “Things are not always as they seem; the first appearance deceives many.” (Phaedrus) This quote applies directly to man’s perception of Grendel in Beowulf as translated by Burton Raffel. The true character of Grendel is revealed in Grendel by John Gardener. These two works show Grendel as a bloodthirsty monster that murders warriors within King Hrothgar’s hall. Grendel is characterized in very different ways in these two depictions. They agree that Grendel led an angry unhappy
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Point of View in Grendel and Beowulf Contrasting points of view in Grendel and Beowulf significantly alter the reader’s perception of religion‚ good and evil‚ and the character Grendel. John Gardner’s book‚ Grendel‚ is written in first person. The book translated by Burton Raffel‚ Beowulf‚ is written in third person. Good and evil is one of the main conflicts in the poem Beowulf. How is Grendel affected by the concepts of good and evil? Grendel is an alienated individual
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The story of Grendel‚ written by John Gardner‚ tells the tale of Beowulf‚ but from a slightly different angle. Instead of talking of Beowulf as being the hero‚ the story is told from Grendel ’s perspective. During the course of the book‚ Grendel attempts to explain many of his misguided attempts at friendship and other ways that he tried to make Beowulf understand that he was a living creature as well. He was treated as a monster‚ but he was not as hateful and horrible as he was made out to be in
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