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Title: Grendel Chapter 9


1
Grendel Chapter 9
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Grendels Uneasiness
  • Chapter focuses on death
  • The trees are dead now
  • The days an arrow in a dead mans chest
  • Apocalyptic
  • Dead wolves
  • He senses that the end is near
  • His own end is near

3
Images of Death
  • December, approaching the years darkest
    night, and the only way out of the dream is down
    and though it. The trees are dead now. The days
    are an arrow in a dead mans chest (125).
  • The trees are dead, and only the deepest
    religion can break through time and believe
    theyll revive (125).

4
Foreshadowing
  • Something is coming, strange as spring. I am
    afraid. I imagine muffled footsteps overhead
    (126).
  • I move on, uneasy waiting (137)

5
Christianity Taking Over
  • Beginning to not like rituals
  • In the old days they used to kill virgins.
    Religion is sick. (128)
  • They only do rituals for showmanship
  • The weak observe the rituals The strong
    old Hrothgar, Unferth- ignore the images. (128)
  • When Grendel destroyed pagan idols, no one but
    priests cared.

6
The King of Gods
  • ultimate limitation
  • existence is the ultimate rationality
  • not concrete, cut the ground for concrete
    actuality
  • No reason can be given for the nature of god,
    because that nature is the ground for all that is
    reasonable
  • He creates their purpose evokes their
    intensities
  • Ultimate evil is not lasting- to be involved is
    to be eliminated
  • Things fade and alternatives exclude
  • Nothing is lost

7
Ultimate Evil
  • The ultimate evil is that Time is perpetual
    perishing, and being actual involves elimination
    (132).
  • Everything in mans is life is temporary
  • Whatever exists will be eliminated

8
Ultimate Wisdom
  • lies in the perception that the solemnity and
    grandeur of the universe rise through the slow
    process of unification in which the diversities
    of existence are utilized, and nothing, nothing
    is lost (133).
  • There is a natural process in the universe
    whereby life seems to end, but as it fades, it
    becomes part of the universe.
  • The conflict in life is necessary because discord
    creates new ways of being, which leads to the
    ultimate unification of all things.
  • Nothing is ever lost

9
Chapter 9 Overview
  • Deals with the theme of the search for meaning
  • Grendel was once intimidated by a huge
    accidental universe. His life was without meaning
  • He understands the basis of truth life but
    still lives his life as if it were a machine-
    irrelevant
  • Weak humans search for truth in pagan gods
  • Strong humans search through violence power-
    thinking themselves god-like
  • Shows their insecurity uncertainty
  • Ork god serves as his source of comfort w/o
    god the world would lose order become chaotic
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