Grendel Brainstorm Wall - Period 6 by Amanda Lee

Grendel description/Dark imagery

alee26 — 2015-09-21 14:39:25 UTC

"out of the night/ came the shadow-stalker, stealthy and swift" (703-704).

Grendel description

parcaro222 — 2015-09-21 15:00:35 UTC

"Then his rage boiled over/he ripped open the mouth of the building, maddening for blood,/ pacing the length of the patterened floor/ with his loathsome trend" (723-25).

Grendel description

alee26 — 2015-09-22 13:07:32 UTC

"the blood-lust rampant" (85).

Dark imagery/Evil/demonic

alee26 — 2015-09-22 13:37:14 UTC

"dark death-shadow/ who lurked and swooped in the long nights/ on the misty moors; nobody knows where these ravens from hell roam on their errands" (159-163).

Evil/demonic

isabellaa_morgan — 2015-09-22 13:42:20 UTC

"a life-and-death/ fight with the fiend" (439-440).

Evil/ Demonic (Contrast to Christianity)

2015-09-22 13:43:33 UTC

"Then a powerful demon, a prowler through the dark,/ nursed a hard grievance" (86-

Isolation/Dark Imagery/Grendel action

isabellaa_morgan — 2015-09-22 13:46:11 UTC

"he will run gloating with my raw corpse/ and feed on it alone, in a cruel frenzy, / fouling his moor-nest" (448-450

Grendel's Description (feelings and actions)

165867 — 2015-09-22 13:46:17 UTC

"So Grendel waged his lonely war, inflicting constant cruelties on the people" (164-165).

Grendel Description/ Demonic -Contrast to Christianity

parcaro222 — 2015-09-22 13:49:07 UTC

"The Bloodshot water wallowed and surged/ there were loathsome upthrows and overturnings/ of waves and gore and wound-slurry./ With death upon him he had died deep/ into his marsh den,/drowned out in his life/ and his haethen soul: hell claimed him there" (840-51).

Evil/ Demonic

2015-09-22 13:49:15 UTC

"In off the moors, down through the mist bands God- cursed Grendel came greedily looping" (710-711).

Dark Imagery

allisonhiney — 2015-09-22 13:49:54 UTC

"the fiend could not bear them to his shadow-bourne."(708)

Grendel description

168380 — 2015-09-22 13:49:56 UTC

"grim demon"(102).

Dark imagery/Evil

acecouto — 2015-09-22 13:52:53 UTC

"Then a powerful demon, a prowler through the dark, nursed a hard grievance" (86).

Grendel Description (physical description)

JohnScarfo — 2015-09-22 13:53:48 UTC

"Grendel's clutches"(478)

Light Imagery

alee26 — 2015-09-22 19:11:04 UTC

"a gleaming plain girdled with waters;/ in His splendour He set the sun and the moon/ to be earth's lamplight, lanterns for men,/ and filled the broad lap of the world/ with branches and leaves; and quickened life/ in every other thing that moved" (92-98).

Grendel Description/Dark Imagery

2015-09-22 19:57:33 UTC

"out of the night came the shadow stalker, stealthy and swift"

Evil/DemonicGrendel description

JohnScarfo — 2015-09-22 23:37:49 UTC

"No blade on earth, no blacksmith's art could ever damage their demon opponent" (802-803)

Light vs. Dark Imagery

2015-09-23 12:40:35 UTC

" Under the cloud-murk he moved towards it until it shown above him, a sheer keep of fortified gold" ( 714-716).

Grendel description

165260 — 2015-09-23 12:40:40 UTC

"Grendel's powers of destruction were plain" (127)

Grendel description

2015-09-23 12:52:09 UTC

" Then his rage boiled over, he ripped open/ the mouth of the building, maddening for blood,/pacing the length of the patterned floor/ with his loathsome tread, while a baleful light,/ flame more than light, flared from his eyes"

( 723-727).

Evil/Demonic (Contrast to Christianity)

2015-09-23 12:55:18 UTC

"a God- cursed scream and strain of catastrophe,/ the howl of the loser, the lament of the hell-serf-/ kneeing his wound" (785-87).

Evil/Demonic (Contrast to Christianity)

2015-09-23 13:00:55 UTC

" And his glee was demonic,/ picturing the mayhem: before morning/ he would rip life from limb and devour them,/ feed on their flesh;but his fate that night/ was due to change,his days of ravening/ had come to an end" (730-735).

Grendel Description

2015-09-23 13:04:21 UTC

"Then an extraordinary/ wail arose, and bewildering fear/ came over the Danes" (781-82).

Dark Imagery/Grendel Description

u8darkmatter — 2015-09-23 13:08:36 UTC

"down through the mist bands God-cursed Grendel came greedily loping" (710-711).

Evil/Demonic

alee26 — 2015-09-24 14:46:36 UTC

"fiend out of hell,/ began to work his evil in the world" (100-101).

Evil/Demonic

alee26 — 2015-09-24 14:47:46 UTC

"malignant by nature, he never showed remorse" (137).

Grendel description

alee26 — 2015-09-24 14:49:56 UTC

"hall watcher's hate" (feeling) or "hall-watcher" (142).

Isolation/Alone

alee26 — 2015-09-24 14:51:24 UTC

"ruled in defiance of right/ one against all" (144-145).

Isolation/Alone

alee26 — 2015-09-24 15:15:19 UTC

"waged his lonely war,/ inflicting constant cruelties on the people" (164-165).

Grendel description

alee26 — 2015-09-24 15:17:14 UTC

"corpse-maker" (276).