Write a short answer to each question.

1. Who or what is Grendel? What motivates him? What does he fear? What does he lover vita

need? What would he do to get what he wants? What is his fatal flaw (what ultimately destroys him) ?

What is his greatest strength (what ultimately saves him) ?

Grendel, is a fictional character, a monstrous creature defeated by Beowulf in the Old English poem Beowulf (composed between 700 and 750 ce). Descended from the biblical Cain, Grendel is an outcast, doomed to wander the face of the earth.

Explanation:

Grendel's motivation is hearing Hrothgar's bard sing songs about God's creation of the world, which rubs his demonic nature the wrong way. Whatever the reason, every night Grendel slaughters more Danes and feeds on their corpses after tearing them limb from limb.

Grendel fears Hrothgar because of the Shaper. The Shaper has made Hrothgar so much more of a magnificent figure than he was before. In sense, the Shaper "shaped" Hrothgar's feats and reputation to a more amplified one, making Grendel fear the new and great Hrothgar by the skill of poetry and speech.

The weakness is an external eardrum, the source of Grendel's pain. Beowulf began attacking it directly. This disoriented Grendel who shrank in size from the attack and attempted to flee.

The weakness is an external eardrum, the source of Grendel's pain. Beowulf began attacking it directly. This disoriented Grendel who shrank in size from the attack and attempted to flee.