Grendel 1-5

Question 1

Intro ppt

Answer 1

• told from first person in a series of flashbacks, illusions, foreshadowing, moves from present to past from the story of the 12 years of Grendel war
• Grendel tone set satirical mocking distance (disdain for human notions)
• Struggles with his mind to understand his place in the meaningless world

Question 2

Metafiction

Answer 2

A fiction about a fiction

Question 3

Bildungsroman

Answer 3

Novel that follows the development of the anti-hero from childhood into adulthood through a troubled quest for identity

Question 4

Grendel’s initial reaction to Dragon

Answer 4

His reaction is like the human reactions to Grendel

Question 5

What does the dragon think about the shaper?

Answer 5

He provides the Danes with an illusion of thinking that their systems are real, knowing that in reality, he has no greater vision than the men in herot

Question 6

What does the dragon thinks Grendel look like when he scared

Answer 6

A rabbit

Question 7

Dragons response to Grendel why should we change our ways and improve our character?

Answer 7

The passage of the time will erase all evidence of mankind. Things will come and go. If no one steps up to alter the future, things will just be the same. It’s all the same in the end, matter and motion, simple or complex. Grendel’s existence gives a man with something to fight.

Question 8

Dragon thinks this group of people will mourn him when he dies

Answer 8

The greatest of gods

Question 9

Dragons final advice to Grendel

Answer 9

To seek out gold and sit on it

Question 10

Grendel’s friend

Answer 10

His shadow