How is Grendel characterized in this passage? O Grendel is heartless and indifferent. Grendel is emotional and sensitive. Grendel is angry and vicious. Grendel is calm and decisive.

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How is Grendel characterized in this passage? O Grendel is heartless and indifferent. Grendel is emotional and sensitive. Grendel is angry and vicious. Grendel is calm and decisive.

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Choices:
A.) Grendel is heartless and indifferent.
B.) Grendel is emotional and sensitive.
C.) Grendel is angry and vicious.
D.) Grendel is calm and decisive.

Answer:
B.) Grendel is emotional and sensitive.

Explanation:
According to the description given in the excerpt, Grendel could be inferred as ’emotional and sensitive’ which is clearly expressed by his exposure to ‘sadness and prophecy’ which elicits a sensitive and disrespectful tone to the excerpt and helps Grendel accomplished as an emotional and thoughtful thing.
His emotions and sensitivity are clearly evident through his gloom and his attitude towards ‘the pig’ as ‘he could hardly get in my heart to tease a pig’. His desire to ‘heal the split’ and his disappointment (but I could not do it) is a testament to his inability. So option B is the right answer.

“Grendel” is a character in the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf (AD 700-1000). He is one of the three antagonists of the poem (along with his mother and the dragon), all aligned in opposition to the main character Beowulf. Cain’s descendant, Grendel, is described as “a creature of darkness, exiled from happiness and destitute of God, destroyed and damned by our human nature”.