No longer a young boy, Grendel begins to be come more curious about Hrothgar and his men. During the last chapter, Grendel encountered life that was capable of intricate thought and action, unlike anything Grendel has faced before. This not only contradicted his theory of solipsism but this also proved that Grendel was not alone. Not long after his encounter with the men it went south, they threw an ax at him; Grendel escaped but was still intrigued by these foreign “rat like” beings. For his entire childhood, he watched these young men from a far, in the safety of “his” tree. These men laughed, drank, and cheered but after a few unfriendly exchanges these jolly men turned into ruthless warriors, creating chaos throughout the land. It became so bad that even if two hunting bands, who are from different tribes, were to encounter each other, it would turn into a blood bath until only one band was left standing. Some men would be deemed an outcast and occasionally Grendel tried to befriend them, but in the end, he always ate them. Overtime one band seemed to standout in particular, rose above all the others in strength, organization, and fortitude; this was Hrothgar and his men. Bathing in wealth, Hrothgar looked like a fancy ally. These smaller bands began to submit to Hrothgar’s power. Feasts and gold far to great for anyone man to possess, Grendel observed Hrothgar and his court celebrate as their town got larger, and Grendel’s forest got smaller, this began to fill Grendel with “murderous unrest.” Though after listening to the Sharper’s lies, Grendel felt mixed emotions, he knew the brutal truth of how Hrothgar’s empire came to power, but he was deeply moved by the beauty of this man’s voice. Grendel then returned home, in a somewhat mystical haze that had also left the Danes speechless.
3. Less of a child now, Grendel takes enjoyment in watching the construction and the festivities in the mead hall. He watches from a far as not to frighten anyone. I enjoy how Grendel listens to the shaper about the tails of the previous kings and how he split helmets and stole riches. When enemies attacked and burnt down the mead hall for the first time, he realized something. He realized that all animals and humans where all alike and that made him sick. He tried to grab corpses and bring them back to his mothers cave with him but she would let him know to not have them here because of the stick. I feel bad for Grendel… He’s trying to discover his purpose in this world, and none of this war or plunder is a good influence on a growing boy! Or monster… whatever he is. I’m am interested how these events will effect him in the future.
In chapter three of “Grendel”, Grendel’s curiosity and fascination with the independent-thinking creatures he met on the night of his epiphany leads him to watch and observe them in their chiefdoms throughout the seasons of their short lifetimes. During times of winter and scarce food, hunters from the different groups would fight over land and the right to hunting grounds. As the populations of these human chiefdoms increased, the fighting increased into large scale conflicts, and people began chopping down large quantities of trees to meet the needs of their lifestyle. Grendel listens to the drunken humans converse and boast to each other in their mead halls. Sometimes they break out in fight over some mildly simple argument, leading to the death and bloodshed of their own kin. Even when food was plentiful in the summer and spring time, warlords began to fight over the surplus of riches other rulers had. As Grendel travels from settlement to settlement, he hears similar boasts and claims of men broadcasting their plans to burn the villages of other and sacking their gold. The humans continued to fight in their wars, sometimes with the intent on gaining ore land and riches for themselves, or sometimes to simply avenge the death of their comrades in wars past. He sees in horror the thousands of deaths that arrive out of a single battle. Over time, one king stands out among the rest in power and wealth. This is Hrothgar. Hrothgar conquers the lands of others, accumulating a larger territory and collecting taxes from each nation he conquers. Then the conquered nation, needing to continuously pay tribute to Hrothgar, must go and raid other villages to gain adequate supply of gold. But Grendel also hears the singing and music played by the bard in the mead hall. While he is astonished and awed by the music, he hates how the songs recount the warlike deeds of Hrothgar as valiant and noble. Unable to control his emotions, he wails and flees back to his mere. -David
In the previous chapter we learned that Grendel was mistaken by the thought of living in a world where he was the only thing who had the ability to think. In other words, Grendel thought that he was the center of the universe and everything revolved around him, this is also known as Solipsism. Grendel discovered that there were humans, who to him, looked like “mysteriously irritating rats” and spoke as though they were “made of brittle sticks, dried spindles, and flaking bits of shale”. As Grendel grows older, he becomes more curious about the humans. He recalls the mens growth and social development. In the beginning, he watches two hunters meet each other in the woods and for no apparent reason they start to physically fight with one another. Then when they had finished fighting, both would return to their own hut and tell their story of what happened. Grendel noticed that the same thing would occur over and over again with different people. At night, he heard some men speaking of what they were going to do to their neighbouring villages, although he did not take it seriously. Soon enough, Grendel finds himself in a hall in ruins where everything was burned to the ground. He watches as the humans develop and enter an age of warfare, where they pointlessly kill cows, horses, and each other. He starts paying extra attention to Hrothgar and his men when he realizes that they have been gaining more power than any other hut. Hrothgar has good strategy, he uses his organization skills and small huts began to follow him. After listening to the Shaper’s words, he is moved by his magnificent lies even though Grendel knows the truth of how Hrothgar got his power.
He watches humans more closely and comes and finds their behavior stupid and pointless. They kill each other and don't eat the dead!! He watches Hrothgar come to power and develops a distaste for his brutal methods. -Evan N.
During chapter 3, Grendel begins to eavesdrop and study the humans. Even from the beginning Grendel believes that people have been senselessly killing each other. He tried to raid the bodies after the battle but he still could not carry all of the dead and his mother was unhappy with the smell. He sees them stupidly and drunkly speaking of how them will complete (what they think is honorable) deadly deeds to their neighbors who they have no good reason to fight. Grendel also sees the victorious warriors of Hrothgar take the bodies to King Hrothgar who then will give them small amounts of the captured gold. Grendel saw that Hrothgar’s army and village was growing as the victories pilled on. He also saw the people inflicting their control on the world around them. The animals would eat away all vegetation, they would create industrialized agriculture, and when Hrothgar spoke, all would stop their own speech.
In this chapter, we learn what the incident between Hrothgar and Grendel and the two trees incites.
Grendel sets his sights on Hrothgar with a plan of ruin in mind. He observes how the king slowly rises to power, getting rule over neighbors through knowledge tactics over intimidation, leading to a more peaceful rule. He receives gifts in the form of both treasures and men, leading to a side-by-side growth in numbers and gold.
One specific admirer, a harper, plays his tribute to Hrothgar and evokes a particularly strong reaction from Grendel, who has watched Hrothgar’s evolution since the beginning.
In chapter 3 Grendel spies on the people and while spying he witnesses many cold battles. When the battles are over he would be sad about how much things where wasted. For example they would kill people and animals and leave them to rot. So Grendel ended up putting what ever he could in his pocket. Sometimes Grendel would go into Hrothgar’s mead hall and kill a couple of people.
In Chapter 3, Grendel seems to be more interested in the human tradition and starts to spy on them. He seeks revenge on Hrothgar, but not because of the "axe" incident. As he spies on each band, he learns how vicious they can be against other bands. They would say stuff like, "I will burn their mead-halls and loot their gold." Also, he observed two bands having a war against each other. He was sickened by the fact that the humans killed each other and other things just because they are not something that belongs to them. Grendel watched as Hrothgar allied with the people around, collect loot from them in trade for protection, and build roads. Because of all the things Hrothgar did, his kingdom began to grow bigger and stronger. When Hrothgar gained control of many lands and seas, Grendel felt an obscure, murderous rest, assuming that Hrothgar's people were scaring everything in its path, even if the object (living being) did not intend on causing any harm. He believes that Hrothgar would soon claim all territory around his land, including Grendel's home. It seems like Grendel is able to see the wrongs in human beings and he wants to learn their lifestyle. He wants to fix the problems the human have.
Now at an older age, Grendel becomes more curious about humans. After his first encounter with men in the forest he had the urge to spy on them. By doing so, he saw that men acted rather cruel to each other at times. After a night of drinking, men would often boast about how glorious of a warrior they were and then make threats to other bands. This ultimately led to warfare. Grendel got to experience bands conquering other bands, leaving people and animals butchered and left on the ground to rot. Bands would kill ever chance they got to try rise above all. One band did manage to do this. This was Hrothgar’s band. Hrothgar then managed to collect wealth and power. Other bands knew they would have to obey the rules and power of Hrothgar because they couldn’t rise above. Then a harper shows up to the mead hall and begins to tell how Hrothgar’s actions were noble. Although Grendel knows what the harper said were lies, he is overcome with emotion at the beautiful poetry of the harper.
Chapter 3 was the start of Grendel’s interest and curiosity in human life and patterns he noticed. He would observe the things they’d do and witnessed the harsh things they’d do. He was able to put together the order in which humans did things and what led to what as to also having a clear understanding of why they would always go into welfare. He strongly disliked the killing of so many creatures and knew he couldn’t do anything about it. Grendel witnessed Hrothgar and his warriors successfully take over and obtain glorious things. Grendel realized it was Hrothgar the one who had been able to get what he wanted through his ideas and actions. He knew the one with the power was Hrothgar and he could take on whatever he wanted and knew how he was able to do so. - Stephanie Medina
The third chapter is interesting to me because it is such a contrast to the second. The last chapter was about Grendel through his own eyes, his experiences as he developed as a person (monster?) and the emergence of his view about the world. This chapter is about us through Grendel’s eyes, as he struggles with trying to learn about and spy on us but also keep that in balance with his whole solipsistic view of the world as being what he makes it, but also having intelligent “pattern-makers” in it that aren’t him. Grendel sort of admires Hrothgar’s ability to bind all the tribes together, but hates what they are doing to the land with their villages and roads, perhaps because intelligent creatures other than himself are altering what he sees as his own world.
Dear Amy, In Chapter 3, Grendel explores the mysterious nature of mankind with his observations. Most of the time, Grendel spends his time spying on men, and he takes interest at how men fight each other while sober after boasting one's threats. Most of the time, Grendel is mainly amused than threatened by the actions of the men. Also in this chapter, Grendel watches many wars and battles between two different societies, which sparks interest to Grendel. However, Grendel feels sickened while watching the deaths of animals and human. He mainly feels sickened by the fact that they speak a similar language to him, meaning they are somewhat related. While spying, Grendel hears from a Shaper, citing poems, singing songs, and telling tales about a great king Hrothgar. At first, Grendel believes the lies, told by the shaper. But after seeing Hrothgar gaining power by bribery, Grendel changes his mind. Hrothgar had been delivering goods and treasures to other smaller villages, in return the villages will defend Hrothgar. While as Hrothgar gains even more power, and transportation to the villages became handy, Hrothgar uses his government power to decide to build roads. When the men come and tear the trees and natural habitat of the forest, Grendel gets mad and becomes to hate Hrothgar, and hate the men. Grendel starts to become two-minded (reference to the twins), when half of his mind believes in the lies of Hrothgar, and the other half knowing the truth. Therefore, Grendel changes his view of humanity especially in Hrothgar. In conclusion, Grendel hates the men, and is disgusted by the fact he is somewhat related to them, which causes him to ever back to animal-like characteristics by running on all fours again.
Basically, Grendel becomes a big hairy human. For the first time in his life he becomes sentient, he is no longer a big ball of emotions and whim, he is a living, thinking animal. He can remember the past, he can think towards the future, most importantly he can make his life into whatever he wants it to be. He can change his perspective on life, he can choose to remember events of gravity, he can create. Uh, and, uuuuh, humans r dumb lol omg snow becomes cherry slusheez derp a herp the end
A change of perspective. Grendel mature into a conscious being capable of many characteristics that separate us from the animals. We saw the beginning of the transformation when Grendel was attacked by the bull, he began to actually SEE the world instead of experience it and therefore gained not only a distinguishable personality from the sentient ball of life who is more one with the world to the beast that sees the world and sees himself as against it like in the first chapter.
In this chapter, Grendel observes the humans in the kingdom near him, bewildered yet intensely fascinated by their behaviors. His reaction to the ways that they treat each other in a casual environment unhinge him, and he speculates zealously why anyone would want to be treated as such.He sees how deceptive their king is as he listens to the Shaper "tell" or glorify their king in a deceptive manner in order to encourage the thanes want to go out and fight for their king. As he observes the humans, he also realizes what troubles they will cause him over time, and that his free time roaming in the forest will be brought to an abrupt stop soon enough.
In this chapter Grendel is a bit older and more aware of his surroundings. Grendel after his experiences with the bull and other human beings. he come out of his shell and realizes that he doesn't understand why the world is so different then when he is in his cave. ~ Oswald Osgood
In this chapter, Grendel begins to spy on the humans and listen to the Shaper tell glorifying stories of their king. Grendel is conflicted between being greatly intrigued by the humans as well as disgusted by their barbaric behaviors. although Hrothgar seems a great and strong leading figure, Grendel sees right through this facade. In truth, Hrothgar is a sly lying man who pays a storyteller to make him look better.
No longer a young boy, Grendel begins to be come more curious about Hrothgar and his men. During the last chapter, Grendel encountered life that was capable of intricate thought and action, unlike anything Grendel has faced before. This not only contradicted his theory of solipsism but this also proved that Grendel was not alone. Not long after his encounter with the men it went south, they threw an ax at him; Grendel escaped but was still intrigued by these foreign “rat like” beings. For his entire childhood, he watched these young men from a far, in the safety of “his” tree. These men laughed, drank, and cheered but after a few unfriendly exchanges these jolly men turned into ruthless warriors, creating chaos throughout the land. It became so bad that even if two hunting bands, who are from different tribes, were to encounter each other, it would turn into a blood bath until only one band was left standing. Some men would be deemed an outcast and occasionally Grendel tried to befriend them, but in the end, he always ate them. Overtime one band seemed to standout in particular, rose above all the others in strength, organization, and fortitude; this was Hrothgar and his men. Bathing in wealth, Hrothgar looked like a fancy ally. These smaller bands began to submit to Hrothgar’s power. Feasts and gold far to great for anyone man to possess, Grendel observed Hrothgar and his court celebrate as their town got larger, and Grendel’s forest got smaller, this began to fill Grendel with “murderous unrest.” Though after listening to the Sharper’s lies, Grendel felt mixed emotions, he knew the brutal truth of how Hrothgar’s empire came to power, but he was deeply moved by the beauty of this man’s voice. Grendel then returned home, in a somewhat mystical haze that had also left the Danes speechless.
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3. Less of a child now, Grendel takes enjoyment in watching the construction and the festivities in the mead hall. He watches from a far as not to frighten anyone. I enjoy how Grendel listens to the shaper about the tails of the previous kings and how he split helmets and stole riches. When enemies attacked and burnt down the mead hall for the first time, he realized something. He realized that all animals and humans where all alike and that made him sick. He tried to grab corpses and bring them back to his mothers cave with him but she would let him know to not have them here because of the stick. I feel bad for Grendel… He’s trying to discover his purpose in this world, and none of this war or plunder is a good influence on a growing boy! Or monster… whatever he is. I’m am interested how these events will effect him in the future.
ReplyDeleteThat was Ben Moseley
ReplyDeleteIn chapter three of “Grendel”, Grendel’s curiosity and fascination with the independent-thinking creatures he met on the night of his epiphany leads him to watch and observe them in their chiefdoms throughout the seasons of their short lifetimes. During times of winter and scarce food, hunters from the different groups would fight over land and the right to hunting grounds. As the populations of these human chiefdoms increased, the fighting increased into large scale conflicts, and people began chopping down large quantities of trees to meet the needs of their lifestyle. Grendel listens to the drunken humans converse and boast to each other in their mead halls. Sometimes they break out in fight over some mildly simple argument, leading to the death and bloodshed of their own kin. Even when food was plentiful in the summer and spring time, warlords began to fight over the surplus of riches other rulers had. As Grendel travels from settlement to settlement, he hears similar boasts and claims of men broadcasting their plans to burn the villages of other and sacking their gold. The humans continued to fight in their wars, sometimes with the intent on gaining ore land and riches for themselves, or sometimes to simply avenge the death of their comrades in wars past. He sees in horror the thousands of deaths that arrive out of a single battle. Over time, one king stands out among the rest in power and wealth. This is Hrothgar. Hrothgar conquers the lands of others, accumulating a larger territory and collecting taxes from each nation he conquers. Then the conquered nation, needing to continuously pay tribute to Hrothgar, must go and raid other villages to gain adequate supply of gold. But Grendel also hears the singing and music played by the bard in the mead hall. While he is astonished and awed by the music, he hates how the songs recount the warlike deeds of Hrothgar as valiant and noble. Unable to control his emotions, he wails and flees back to his mere.
ReplyDelete-David
In the previous chapter we learned that Grendel was mistaken by the thought of living in a world where he was the only thing who had the ability to think. In other words, Grendel thought that he was the center of the universe and everything revolved around him, this is also known as Solipsism. Grendel discovered that there were humans, who to him, looked like “mysteriously irritating rats” and spoke as though they were “made of brittle sticks, dried spindles, and flaking bits of shale”. As Grendel grows older, he becomes more curious about the humans. He recalls the mens growth and social development. In the beginning, he watches two hunters meet each other in the woods and for no apparent reason they start to physically fight with one another. Then when they had finished fighting, both would return to their own hut and tell their story of what happened. Grendel noticed that the same thing would occur over and over again with different people. At night, he heard some men speaking of what they were going to do to their neighbouring villages, although he did not take it seriously. Soon enough, Grendel finds himself in a hall in ruins where everything was burned to the ground. He watches as the humans develop and enter an age of warfare, where they pointlessly kill cows, horses, and each other. He starts paying extra attention to Hrothgar and his men when he realizes that they have been gaining more power than any other hut. Hrothgar has good strategy, he uses his organization skills and small huts began to follow him. After listening to the Shaper’s words, he is moved by his magnificent lies even though Grendel knows the truth of how Hrothgar got his power.
ReplyDelete-Metztli Garcia
He watches humans more closely and comes and finds their behavior stupid and pointless. They kill each other and don't eat the dead!! He watches Hrothgar come to power and develops a distaste for his brutal methods.
ReplyDelete-Evan N.
During chapter 3, Grendel begins to eavesdrop and study the humans. Even from the beginning Grendel believes that people have been senselessly killing each other. He tried to raid the bodies after the battle but he still could not carry all of the dead and his mother was unhappy with the smell. He sees them stupidly and drunkly speaking of how them will complete (what they think is honorable) deadly deeds to their neighbors who they have no good reason to fight. Grendel also sees the victorious warriors of Hrothgar take the bodies to King Hrothgar who then will give them small amounts of the captured gold. Grendel saw that Hrothgar’s army and village was growing as the victories pilled on. He also saw the people inflicting their control on the world around them. The animals would eat away all vegetation, they would create industrialized agriculture, and when Hrothgar spoke, all would stop their own speech.
ReplyDelete-Adam Sheldon
In this chapter, we learn what the incident between Hrothgar and Grendel and the two trees incites.
ReplyDeleteGrendel sets his sights on Hrothgar with a plan of ruin in mind. He observes how the king slowly rises to power, getting rule over neighbors through knowledge tactics over intimidation, leading to a more peaceful rule. He receives gifts in the form of both treasures and men, leading to a side-by-side growth in numbers and gold.
One specific admirer, a harper, plays his tribute to Hrothgar and evokes a particularly strong reaction from Grendel, who has watched Hrothgar’s evolution since the beginning.
—Haven
In chapter 3 Grendel spies on the people and while spying he witnesses many cold battles. When the battles are over he would be sad about how much things where wasted. For example they would kill people and animals and leave them to rot. So Grendel ended up putting what ever he could in his pocket. Sometimes Grendel would go into Hrothgar’s mead hall and kill a couple of people.
ReplyDeleteIn Chapter 3, Grendel seems to be more interested in the human tradition and starts to spy on them. He seeks revenge on Hrothgar, but not because of the "axe" incident. As he spies on each band, he learns how vicious they can be against other bands. They would say stuff like, "I will burn their mead-halls and loot their gold." Also, he observed two bands having a war against each other. He was sickened by the fact that the humans killed each other and other things just because they are not something that belongs to them. Grendel watched as Hrothgar allied with the people around, collect loot from them in trade for protection, and build roads. Because of all the things Hrothgar did, his kingdom began to grow bigger and stronger. When Hrothgar gained control of many lands and seas, Grendel felt an obscure, murderous rest, assuming that Hrothgar's people were scaring everything in its path, even if the object (living being) did not intend on causing any harm. He believes that Hrothgar would soon claim all territory around his land, including Grendel's home. It seems like Grendel is able to see the wrongs in human beings and he wants to learn their lifestyle. He wants to fix the problems the human have.
ReplyDeleteNow at an older age, Grendel becomes more curious about humans. After his first encounter with men in the forest he had the urge to spy on them. By doing so, he saw that men acted rather cruel to each other at times. After a night of drinking, men would often boast about how glorious of a warrior they were and then make threats to other bands. This ultimately led to warfare. Grendel got to experience bands conquering other bands, leaving people and animals butchered and left on the ground to rot. Bands would kill ever chance they got to try rise above all. One band did manage to do this. This was Hrothgar’s band. Hrothgar then managed to collect wealth and power. Other bands knew they would have to obey the rules and power of Hrothgar because they couldn’t rise above. Then a harper shows up to the mead hall and begins to tell how Hrothgar’s actions were noble. Although Grendel knows what the harper said were lies, he is overcome with emotion at the beautiful poetry of the harper.
ReplyDeleteChapter 3 was the start of Grendel’s interest and curiosity in human life and patterns he noticed. He would observe the things they’d do and witnessed the harsh things they’d do. He was able to put together the order in which humans did things and what led to what as to also having a clear understanding of why they would always go into welfare. He strongly disliked the killing of so many creatures and knew he couldn’t do anything about it. Grendel witnessed Hrothgar and his warriors successfully take over and obtain glorious things. Grendel realized it was Hrothgar the one who had been able to get what he wanted through his ideas and actions. He knew the one with the power was Hrothgar and he could take on whatever he wanted and knew how he was able to do so.
ReplyDelete- Stephanie Medina
The third chapter is interesting to me because it is such a contrast to the second. The last chapter was about Grendel through his own eyes, his experiences as he developed as a person (monster?) and the emergence of his view about the world. This chapter is about us through Grendel’s eyes, as he struggles with trying to learn about and spy on us but also keep that in balance with his whole solipsistic view of the world as being what he makes it, but also having intelligent “pattern-makers” in it that aren’t him. Grendel sort of admires Hrothgar’s ability to bind all the tribes together, but hates what they are doing to the land with their villages and roads, perhaps because intelligent creatures other than himself are altering what he sees as his own world.
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Dear Amy,
ReplyDeleteIn Chapter 3, Grendel explores the mysterious nature of mankind with his observations. Most of the time, Grendel spends his time spying on men, and he takes interest at how men fight each other while sober after boasting one's threats. Most of the time, Grendel is mainly amused than threatened by the actions of the men. Also in this chapter, Grendel watches many wars and battles between two different societies, which sparks interest to Grendel. However, Grendel feels sickened while watching the deaths of animals and human. He mainly feels sickened by the fact that they speak a similar language to him, meaning they are somewhat related. While spying, Grendel hears from a Shaper, citing poems, singing songs, and telling tales about a great king Hrothgar. At first, Grendel believes the lies, told by the shaper. But after seeing Hrothgar gaining power by bribery, Grendel changes his mind. Hrothgar had been delivering goods and treasures to other smaller villages, in return the villages will defend Hrothgar. While as Hrothgar gains even more power, and transportation to the villages became handy, Hrothgar uses his government power to decide to build roads. When the men come and tear the trees and natural habitat of the forest, Grendel gets mad and becomes to hate Hrothgar, and hate the men. Grendel starts to become two-minded (reference to the twins), when half of his mind believes in the lies of Hrothgar, and the other half knowing the truth. Therefore, Grendel changes his view of humanity especially in Hrothgar. In conclusion, Grendel hates the men, and is disgusted by the fact he is somewhat related to them, which causes him to ever back to animal-like characteristics by running on all fours again.
Sincerely,
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Dylan Tsung
Basically, Grendel becomes a big hairy human. For the first time in his life he becomes sentient, he is no longer a big ball of emotions and whim, he is a living, thinking animal. He can remember the past, he can think towards the future, most importantly he can make his life into whatever he wants it to be. He can change his perspective on life, he can choose to remember events of gravity, he can create. Uh, and, uuuuh, humans r dumb lol omg snow becomes cherry slusheez derp a herp the end
ReplyDeletesigned alexander, conqueror of the known world and leader of the lazy army
DeleteA change of perspective. Grendel mature into a conscious being capable of many characteristics that separate us from the animals. We saw the beginning of the transformation when Grendel was attacked by the bull, he began to actually SEE the world instead of experience it and therefore gained not only a distinguishable personality from the sentient ball of life who is more one with the world to the beast that sees the world and sees himself as against it like in the first chapter.
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DeleteIn this chapter, Grendel observes the humans in the kingdom near him, bewildered yet intensely fascinated by their behaviors. His reaction to the ways that they treat each other in a casual environment unhinge him, and he speculates zealously why anyone would want to be treated as such.He sees how deceptive their king is as he listens to the Shaper "tell" or glorify their king in a deceptive manner in order to encourage the thanes want to go out and fight for their king. As he observes the humans, he also realizes what troubles they will cause him over time, and that his free time roaming in the forest will be brought to an abrupt stop soon enough.
ReplyDeleteJulian
DeleteIn this chapter Grendel is a bit older and more aware of his surroundings. Grendel after his experiences with the bull and other human beings. he come out of his shell and realizes that he doesn't understand why the world is so different then when he is in his cave.
ReplyDelete~ Oswald Osgood
In this chapter, Grendel begins to spy on the humans and listen to the Shaper tell glorifying stories of their king. Grendel is conflicted between being greatly intrigued by the humans as well as disgusted by their barbaric behaviors. although Hrothgar seems a great and strong leading figure, Grendel sees right through this facade. In truth, Hrothgar is a sly lying man who pays a storyteller to make him look better.
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