1 / 13

Grendel

Grendel. Beowulf: Tone Analysis. Characterization. Demon “Grendel was the name of this grim demon” “He was the Lord’s outcast” “God-cursed brute” “A fiend of hell” “From Cain, there sprung misbegotten spirits, among them, Grendel” It goes on…. Characterization. Feared

helena
Download Presentation

Grendel

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Grendel Beowulf: Tone Analysis

  2. Characterization • Demon • “Grendel was the name of this grim demon” • “He was the Lord’s outcast” • “God-cursed brute” • “A fiend of hell” • “From Cain, there sprung misbegotten spirits, among them, Grendel” • It goes on…

  3. Characterization • Feared • “It was easy then to meet a man shifting himself to a safer distance” • Cruel • “Inflicting constant cruelties on the people” • “Corpse-maker” • “Insensible to pain and human sorrow”

  4. Characterization • Basically, he’s evil and cursed by God • “The captain of evil” • “Malignant by nature, he never showed remorse” • “The bane of the race of men” • “Prowler through the dark” • “The God-cursed brute”

  5. Imagery • Readers are shown that Grendel hates happiness • “Then a powerful demon, a prowler-through the dark, nursed a hard grievance. It harrowed him to hear the din of the loud banquet every day in the hall.” • Sound familiar?

  6. Sounds like the Grinch! • “Then the Whos, young and old, would sit down to a feast. . .They would feast on Who-pudding, and rare Who-roast beast. Which was something the Grinch couldn't stand in the least!”

  7. Imagery • Grendel uses his strength to cause pain • “He grabbed thirty men from their resting places and rushed to his lair, flushed up and inflamed from the raid, blundering back with the butchered corpses.”

  8. Imagery • Grendel has a gruesome way of killing people • “He grabbed and mauled a man on his bench, bit into his bone-lappings, bolted down his blood and gorged him on lumps, leaving the body utterly lifeless, eaten up hand and foot.”

  9. Imagery • And a dramatic ending. . . • “With death upon him, he had dived deep into his marsh-den, drowned out his life and his heathen soul: hell claimed him there.”

  10. Symbolism • Represents evil/the Antigod • Cast out by God • Described as a demon (generally evil) • Kills people (unholy) • Called, “The captain of evil”

  11. Symbolism • Overall, represents good overcoming evil • Beowulf (strong and righteous) kills Grendel • “The man who had lately landed among them, proud and sure, had purged the hall”

  12. Symbolism • Also could symbolize Christianity overcoming Paganism • Grendel cast out by God as Pagans cast out by Christians • Beowulf (Christian) overcame Grendel as Christianity overcame Paganism

  13. Tone • Dark, negative, angry • Always described with dark words (ex: “The shadow-stalker” ; “Corpse-maker”) • People’s reactions and descriptions of him are negative • His actions display anger

More Related