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Read these lines from Beowulf.
Which statement best compares the two excerpts?
He realized
that the demon was going to descend on the hall,
• Grendel is described as an unfeeling creature in
that he had plotted all day, from dawn-light
Beowulf, but he is a sensitive and emotional
until darkness gathered again over the world
character in Grendel.
and stealthy night-shapes came stealing forth
• Grendel seems comical and ridiculous in Beowulf,
under the cloud-murk.
but he seems calm and calculating in Grendel.
Read this excerpt from Grendel.
• Beowulf acts cowardly in Beowulf, but he behaves
like a fearless hero in Grendel.
Thus I fled, ridiculous hairy creature torn apart by
poetry-crawling, whimpering, streaming tears, across
• Beowulf feels sympathy for in Grendel in Beowulf, but
he is jealous of Grendel in Grendel.
the world like a two-headed beast, like mixed-up lamb
and kid at the tail of a baffled, indifferent ewe-and |
gnashed my teeth and clutched the sides of my head
as if to heal the split, but I couldn't.