Grendel Chapter 6 Passages and Quiz Materials Based

Grendel Chapter 6 Passages and Quiz Materials

Based on the following passage: • Create a dialectical journal. • Provide a lead-in • Pull a section from the larger passage for the quotation portion of the dj • Utilize the page number that is provided • Provide analysis explaining the following – Who the speaker is – Who / what the subject is – How / why / what about the passage creates meaning based on the speaker and the subject. This should be ORIGINAL thought – This SHOULD NOT be restatement of the quote or summary of the chapter

Grendel: Chapter 6 pages 75 • Whatever I may have understood or misunderstood in the dragon’s talk, something much deeper stayed with me, became my aura. Futility, doom, became a smell in the air, pervasive and acrid as the dead smell after a forest fire—my scent and the world’s, the scent of trees, rocks, waterways wherever I went.

Grendel Chapter 6 Quote Grendel reflects upon the changes in his life after his visit with the dragon; “Whatever I may have understood or misunderstood in the dragon’s talk, something much deeper stayed with me, became my aura. Futility, doom, became a smell in the air, pervasive and acrid as the dead smell after a forest fire—my scent and the world’s, the scent of trees, rocks, waterways wherever I went” (75) Analysis Grendel recognizes a fundamental change in himself and struggles for complete knowledge of the causes and effects of the change. He uses words and phrases which indicate confusion or a vague understanding of his situation: “Whatever, ” “may have understood or misunderstood, ” and “something much deeper” all indicate a lack of certainty—an inability to formulate a cogent opinion. Then there is a sudden definition of the situation—Grendel is able to label the change—his “aura, ” or his spiritual self, is equated with futility and doom— nihilism (pointlessness, meaninglessness, uselessness), and the stink / “smell” taints the world wherever goes. This belief, now establishes a painful and despairing element—the image of death / decay—”acrid” and burned.

Grendel: Chapter 6 pages 81 • I laughed. It was outrageous: they came, they fell, howling insanity about brothers, fathers, glorious Hrothgar, and God. But though I laughed, I felt trapped, as hollow as a rotten tree.

Grendel: Chapter 6 pages 77 • The people sat beaming, bleary-eyed and fat, nodding their approval of God. He spoke of God’s great generosity in sending them so wise a king. They all raised their cups to God and Hrothgar, and Hrothgar smiled, bits of food in his beard.

Grendel: Chapter 6 pages 79 -80 • Some three or four nights later I launched my first raid. I burst in when they were all asleep, snatched seven from their beds, and slit them open and devoured them on the spot. I felt a strange, unearthly joy. It was as if I’d made some incredible discovery, like my discovery long ago of the moonlight world beyond the mere. I was transformed. I was a new focus for the clutter of space I stood in: