Beowulf Style Assignment • 3 Examples of Alliteration • Example #1
a. “He was spawned in that slime,/ Convinced by a pair of those monsters born/ Of Cain, murderous creatures banished/ By God, punished forever for the crime/ Of Abel’s death.” (“Beowulf” 19-22)
b. This use of alliteration helps us understand the story it demonstrates the idea that Grendel is a monster because he was created to bring destruction, agony, and despair among people. Therefore, when it states, “spawned in that slime” it is referring back to Cain’s murder of his brother Abel, and how Cain was cursed forever. Therefore, Cain is the root of Grendel’s evilness.
• Example #2
a. “ He found them sprawled in sleep, suspecting/ Nothing, their dreams undisturbed.” (“Beowulf” …show more content…
This use of alliteration helps us understand the story because it illustrates how Grendel attacked the 30 innocent people during the night and how he slaughtered them without anyone knowing it happened until morning. It also helps us understand that Grendel is a devious, violent, and vicious being that is pure evil and has no apprehension for the lives he takes.
• Example #3
a. “But Higlac’s follower remembered his final/ Boast and, standing erect, stopped/The monster’s flight, fastened those claws/ In his fist till they cracked, clutched Grendel/ Closer.” (“Beowulf” 281-285)
b. This use of alliteration helps us understand the story because it helps demonstrate and visualize Beowulf defeating Grendel. Not only does this alliteration help us understand this important event of the story but also the use of a cacophony within the alliteration, make us be able to hear and sense the take down of Grendel.
• 3 Examples of …show more content…
This use of imagery helps us understand the story because it illuminates it describes what it was like when Grendel died and how it seemed like hell was opening up to receive him form them. Not only does it make it seem like hell was opening but it also makes it appear as if hell was taking over the world around them and that the world was exposing the actual evilness of Grendel throughout their surroundings.
• 3 Examples of Judeo- Christian Illusion
• Example #1
a. “So Grendel ruled, fought with the righteous,/One against many, and won; so Herot/Stood empty, and stayed deserted for years,/ Twelve winters of grief for Hrothgar, king/Of the Danes, sorrow heaped at his door/ By hell-forged hands.” (Beowulf 59-64)
b. This use of Judeo- Christian illusion helps us understand the story because it depicts how the monks writing of the poem felt that they needed to incorporate their religious views through their work in “Beowulf”. This quote is also creating an illusion between the story line of the poem and Christian values, because when it states “ Twelve winters” it is using the number twelve as a reference to the twelve disciples.
• Example #2
a. “No one/ Waited for reparation from his plundering claws:/ That shadow of death hunted in the darkness,/Stalked Hrothgar’s warriors, old/ And young, lying in waiting, hidden/ In mist, invisibly following them from the edge/ Of the marsh, always there, unseen.” (“Beowulf
a. “He was spawned in that slime,/ Convinced by a pair of those monsters born/ Of Cain, murderous creatures banished/ By God, punished forever for the crime/ Of Abel’s death.” (“Beowulf” 19-22)
b. This use of alliteration helps us understand the story it demonstrates the idea that Grendel is a monster because he was created to bring destruction, agony, and despair among people. Therefore, when it states, “spawned in that slime” it is referring back to Cain’s murder of his brother Abel, and how Cain was cursed forever. Therefore, Cain is the root of Grendel’s evilness.
• Example #2
a. “ He found them sprawled in sleep, suspecting/ Nothing, their dreams undisturbed.” (“Beowulf” …show more content…
This use of alliteration helps us understand the story because it illustrates how Grendel attacked the 30 innocent people during the night and how he slaughtered them without anyone knowing it happened until morning. It also helps us understand that Grendel is a devious, violent, and vicious being that is pure evil and has no apprehension for the lives he takes.
• Example #3
a. “But Higlac’s follower remembered his final/ Boast and, standing erect, stopped/The monster’s flight, fastened those claws/ In his fist till they cracked, clutched Grendel/ Closer.” (“Beowulf” 281-285)
b. This use of alliteration helps us understand the story because it helps demonstrate and visualize Beowulf defeating Grendel. Not only does this alliteration help us understand this important event of the story but also the use of a cacophony within the alliteration, make us be able to hear and sense the take down of Grendel.
• 3 Examples of …show more content…
This use of imagery helps us understand the story because it illuminates it describes what it was like when Grendel died and how it seemed like hell was opening up to receive him form them. Not only does it make it seem like hell was opening but it also makes it appear as if hell was taking over the world around them and that the world was exposing the actual evilness of Grendel throughout their surroundings.
• 3 Examples of Judeo- Christian Illusion
• Example #1
a. “So Grendel ruled, fought with the righteous,/One against many, and won; so Herot/Stood empty, and stayed deserted for years,/ Twelve winters of grief for Hrothgar, king/Of the Danes, sorrow heaped at his door/ By hell-forged hands.” (Beowulf 59-64)
b. This use of Judeo- Christian illusion helps us understand the story because it depicts how the monks writing of the poem felt that they needed to incorporate their religious views through their work in “Beowulf”. This quote is also creating an illusion between the story line of the poem and Christian values, because when it states “ Twelve winters” it is using the number twelve as a reference to the twelve disciples.
• Example #2
a. “No one/ Waited for reparation from his plundering claws:/ That shadow of death hunted in the darkness,/Stalked Hrothgar’s warriors, old/ And young, lying in waiting, hidden/ In mist, invisibly following them from the edge/ Of the marsh, always there, unseen.” (“Beowulf