How is grendel characterized in this excerpt?
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i was safe in my tree, and the men who fought were nothing to me, except of course that they talked in something akin to my language, which meant that we were, incredibly, related. i was sickened, if only at the waste of it: all they killed—cows, horses, men—they left to rot or burn. i sacked all i could and tried to store it, but my mother would growl and make faces because of the stink.

he is weak and easily disgusted by dead animals.
he is careful and respectful of animal life.
he is cruel and disobedient to his mother’s wishes.
he is considerate and mindful of the fighting men

Grendel is characterized in this excerpt as careful and respectful of animal life.

Grendel is a character in the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf (AD 700–1000). Grendel is found in the Nowell Codex.

Grendel is described as an unfeeling creature in Beowulf. He has a sensitive and emotional character. Grendel stands for evil and represents traits that the Anglo-Saxons did not respect.

Whereas Beowulf stands for good, because he fights for what is right and symbolizes the traits that Anglo-Saxon warrior culture held in highest regard.

Grendel is carnivorous. He feasts on human flesh and drinks human blood. He is incredibly strong, once smashing thirty men at one time before dragging them all back to his lair. Grendel can also be quick, quiet and stealthy. He can sneak into Herot without being detected.

I was safe in my tree, and the men who fought were nothing to me, except of course that they talked in something akin to my language, which meant that we were, incredibly, related. I was sickened, if only at the waste of it: all they killed—cows, horses, men—they left to rot or burn. I sacked all I could and tried to store it, but my mother would growl and make faces because of the stink.

According to that excerpt above, Grendel is characterized as careful and respectful of animal life.

Grade:  9

Subject:  English

Chapter:  excerpt

Keywords: Grendel

The audience knows Mrs. Hale has the dead bird in her coat pocket, but the men in the story do not.

Explanation:

Dramatic irony is a literary device that is used to show when the audience/ readers of the story know something which the characters in the story did not know. This form of dramatization gives an advantage to the audience.

In the play "Trifles" by Susan Glaspell revolves around the death of Mr. Wright. This feminist drama shows the two other female characters, Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale sympathize with Mrs. Wright who had been accused and arrested for the murder of her husband.

In part two of the play, what the men/policemen did not know was that Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters had found a dead bird in the sewing box, a symbol of Mr. Wright's repressive actions of his wife's freedom. The bird had been a source of happiness for the lonely woman but her controlling husband killed it which led Mrs. Wright to finally snap and kill her husband. The two women decided to get rid of the evidence which would have further proved her guilt. Both women knew what it was like to be oppressed by men and so, their sympathy for the accused lady led to their act of hiding the evidence for the crime.