Responding to Beowulf

  1. Images are words that help us see something and often hear it, smell it, taste it, and touch is as well. Identify
    these images desribing Grendel that associate him with death or darkness. How are these images supported to
    affect the way you feel about him.
  2. List three bits of background information that you learned about Grendel. Did this make you sympathize with
    him? Explain.
  3. What a day in your life be like if you lived in "999 in late Anglo Saxon England" How does life in 999
    compare with life today? List at least three similarities to life in the story and three differences with life today.