Heroism
INSTRUCTIONS:
What characteristics from Emerson’s "Heroism" are most necessary for defeating a monster like Grendel? Use the Option B Writing Organizer to collect your thoughts before writing.
THE QUESTION:
What characteristics from Emerson’s “Heroism” are most necessary for defeating a monster like Grendel?
THE CHART:
Use this chart to organize the information you have learned in Emerson’s essay. For help answering the question, also use the notes you took while reading Beowulf. You will need supporting evidence from each text to write a well-developed, organized response
Grendel’s Character Traits
(choose a minimum of four)
Provide supporting evidence from the poem that reveals the trait.
Why would the quality help a hero defeat Grendel?
1. BITTER-
Then the mighty war-spirit endured for a season,
Bore it bitterly, he who bided in darkness,
That light-hearted laughter loud in the building
Greeted him daily; there was dulcet harp-music,
Clear song of the singer.
2. Cruel The monster of evil
Greedy and cruel tarried but little,
Fell and frantic, and forced from their slumbers
Thirty of thanemen; thence he departed
Leaping and laughing, his lair to return to,
With surfeit of slaughter sallying homeward.
3. Self-Indulgent
But one night after continued his slaughter
Shameless and shocking, shrinking but little
From malice and murder; they mastered him fully.
So ruled he and strongly strove against justice
Lone against all men, till empty uptowered
The choicest of houses. Long was the season:
Twelve-winters’ time torture suffered
The friend of the Scyldings, every afflication,
Endless agony; hence it after became
Certainly known to the children of men
Sadly in measures, that long against Hrothgar
Grendel struggled:—his grudges he cherished,
Murderous malice, many a winter,
Which qualities from “Heroism” are needed to defeat the trait?
1. A Balanced Mind
The hero is a mind of such balance that no
What characteristics from Emerson’s "Heroism" are most necessary for defeating a monster like Grendel? Use the Option B Writing Organizer to collect your thoughts before writing.
THE QUESTION:
What characteristics from Emerson’s “Heroism” are most necessary for defeating a monster like Grendel?
THE CHART:
Use this chart to organize the information you have learned in Emerson’s essay. For help answering the question, also use the notes you took while reading Beowulf. You will need supporting evidence from each text to write a well-developed, organized response
Grendel’s Character Traits
(choose a minimum of four)
Provide supporting evidence from the poem that reveals the trait.
Why would the quality help a hero defeat Grendel?
1. BITTER-
Then the mighty war-spirit endured for a season,
Bore it bitterly, he who bided in darkness,
That light-hearted laughter loud in the building
Greeted him daily; there was dulcet harp-music,
Clear song of the singer.
2. Cruel The monster of evil
Greedy and cruel tarried but little,
Fell and frantic, and forced from their slumbers
Thirty of thanemen; thence he departed
Leaping and laughing, his lair to return to,
With surfeit of slaughter sallying homeward.
3. Self-Indulgent
But one night after continued his slaughter
Shameless and shocking, shrinking but little
From malice and murder; they mastered him fully.
So ruled he and strongly strove against justice
Lone against all men, till empty uptowered
The choicest of houses. Long was the season:
Twelve-winters’ time torture suffered
The friend of the Scyldings, every afflication,
Endless agony; hence it after became
Certainly known to the children of men
Sadly in measures, that long against Hrothgar
Grendel struggled:—his grudges he cherished,
Murderous malice, many a winter,
Which qualities from “Heroism” are needed to defeat the trait?
1. A Balanced Mind
The hero is a mind of such balance that no