BEOWULF

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BEOWULF

• The Battle With Grendel

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Plot Summary

• Grendel kills a sleeping Geat
• Attacks Beowulf
• Beowulf grabs on to Grendels talons
• Grendel tries to run from Beowulf
• Beowulf refuses to let go of Grendel

• Beowulf and Grendel battle inside Herot
• Beowulfs men try to stab Grendel
• Beowulf rips off Grendels arm
• Grendel escapes to his den only to die
• Grendels arm hung from the rafters of Herot

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Imagery and DictionImages of Light Dark

• Gods hatred (393)
• Grendel is the symbol of evil/ darkness
• Beowulf and Herot as good/light
• He moved quickly through the cloudy night,/Up
  from his swampland, sliding silently/Toward that
  gold-shining hall (396-398)

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Imagery and Diction

• Presented as powerful and angry
• Tore its iron fasteners with a touch/ And rushed
  angrily over the threshold (404-405).
• Characterization
• Gods hatred
• Infamous killer
• Almightys enemy
• Grendel is the symbol of evil
• Grendel is the antithesis of God

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But fate, that night, intended/ Grendel to gnaw
the broken bones/ Of his last human supper
(416-418).

• Fate and Foreshadowing

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Change in Grendel

• Now fears his opponent
• Wants to flee
• Feels pain

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Characterization of Beowulf

• And the bleeding sinews deep in his shoulder/
  Snapped, muscle and bone split and broke
  (497-498).
• Did what he came to do
• Honored- From faraway lands, princes and
  leaders/ of men hurrying to behold the monsters/
  Great staggering tracks (520-522).