Beowulf
1. When Beowulf was swimming in the ocean against Brecca, the battle with Grendel, and all the murderings Grendell did
2. Where Grendel lives everything is with mud, water, disgusting, and full of suffering, while Herot is shining gold, clean, beautiful, and full of pleasure and happiness.
3. In the bard’s song the creation of Earth was perfectly and beautiful while Grendel is described as a bloodthirsty, evil and disgusting monster.
4. That maybe he sees better at night, the sun might hurt his eyes. Also it makes him seem a darker and more evil character by killing at night.
5. Because of the sound of happiness and party that comes from it. Grendel hates everything that comes related to Hrothgar.
6. It made us see that he was full of courage and strength.
7. He always plays fairly and without cheating, even when probabilities are against him.
8. Tht is of great omportance to look at the other side of the story, from Grendel’s point of view.
a. Because of Grendel’s attack.
b. Because it was protected by God and Grendel could not know God’s love.
c. They gave sacrifices to their old stone gods and sent the best warriors to fight Grendel.
d. Unferth tells a story where Beowulf loses, a false story.
tells the real story, how it truly happenes
e. He is filled with fear, Beowulf attacks him and he dies.
Gilgamesh
1. He is scared of Humbaba, so in other words he fears death.
2. Because he was a slave of the gods and because Humbaba had a mounstrous contortion.
3. Like a water buffalo’s bellowing down the path.
His shoulders, like a porter’s under building stones.
A if there were some hunger in himself.
As if it were some hunger in himself.
4. He tells Gilgamesh he will be his slave, so he is weak to the temptation of power.
5. Because Humbaba almost killed his friend.
6. That friendship is more important than anything in the world.
7. Yes, when a friend is being bothered I have to choose between helping him but receiving too the humiliation or leaving him alone.
The Seafarer
1. He is alone, sad, depressed, scared. Just living in the sea, even when he is freezing cold. He hopes to live in there forever, he likes to live in there.
2. From line 45 to line 86. He only seekds peace and to stay away from the bad things land offers.
3. That when you die you can’t take anything with you. You can only take your sould to God. Also that one day yoou will surely die, no matter what.
Lord Randall, Edward Edward, Get Up and Bard the Door
1. Lord Randall: Who poisoned Lord Randall?
Edward Edward: Why did he kill everybody?
Why isn’t her mother upset?
Why he is so cruel and coward that he is capable of leaving his family?
Get up and bard the door: Why were they so inmature?
Why were they playing such a dumb game?
2. He answers to why was so weak and tired. This is because he is dying.
3. In Lord Randall at the end, in Edward Edward in the third and on the last stanza.
4. That the hates her and wishes bad things for her, simply they don’t get along.
5. They were joking and arguing with each another, things might get serious and become a real fight.
7. Not really beacuse it is not the main theme. Because they make humorous things and jokes about violence, not glorify it. In most of theme it is out of violence and hate.
Sir Gwain and the Green Knight
1. Manty people consider the winer of the conflict the Green Knight.
2. He keeps hismiorality because he did not go all the way, he looses his fidelity by deceiving the host abut the sash, and partially looses his courage by flynching ath the first blow.
3. Superhuman in his determination to hide his fear and to act honorably. His human qualities are that he is susceptible to lying, passion, and fear.
4. He symbolized nature with its renewing qualities.
5. New Years day, like the color green suggests a new begining or renewal because Sir Gwain will renew his knightly vows.
6. The bubbling water, the grave like mound suggests the end of Sir Gwain¡s life is near.
7. Gwaing seem to struggle hardest against the temptations of sensuality.
8. Renewal and self-knowledge can grow out of sin and weakness.
a. To exchange one blow for another using an axe. He will suffer the first blow and Gwain must agree to withstand a blow from the Green Knight in one year stand.
b. Between desire and the obligation to his host.
c. He makes sir Gwain realize his sins and weaknesses, still he gives him another opportunity of renewal.
d. By not giving him the sash he got taht day, as he had promised to.
e. He goes there and takethe blow. The first time, he moves away, the second one the Green Knight doesn’t dare to give him the blow, and the third time he gives the blow but hurts him only a little in the neck. Sir Gwain claims that the Green Knight had his one chance. In that moment the Green Knight shows his real identity. He was the host and he had tempted Sir Gwaing with his wife.
The Wife of Bath’s Tale
a. Crime: Taking a woman’s virginity by force.
Original sentence: Death.
Second sentence: death in 1 year, unless he finds the answer of what women most desire.
b. She will tell him the answer to the riddle if he promises to do the thing she asks.
c. She demands that he marrys her. He responds by pleading for her to ask anything else.
d. She gives him the choice of having her ugly and thus being confident of her fidelity or of having her beautiful and taking his chances on her faithfulness. He responds that he wants her to decide.
1. I really don’t know but I think is true because women always want equality and the right to choose what they want.
2. He was mean to a girl and took his virginity and now he has to find out what she and the rest of women want.
3. She rubs his flaws in his face to make him realixe that he is not as perfect as he thinks.
Whoso List to Hunt
1. No, nowdays love is not a chase and men are not always the hunters because now women can also be the hunters
2. The hind is Anne Boleyn and Ceasar is King Henry. This is because King Henry owns Anne and nobody else can have her.
3. He warns them that she has been taken and taht they wil only lose their time.
4. He uses the “Noli me tangere” (do not touch) collar in the deer’s neck.
5. Is referring to both the woman and Ceasar’s claim on her. She is untouchable because of her wild spirit and because of the collar.
6. If I were King Henry I would feel sorry for the author, but at the same time I would feel like a winner.
If I were Anne Boleyn I would feel attracted to the author because he wrote such beautiful things.
7. He is right but love is more than that. Love happens when the deer accept the hunter and they become one.
Sonnets 30 and 75
1. I would feel sad to realize that he feels rejected and to see that he thinks of me as a cold person.
2. Ice makes fire kindel and fire hardens ice.
3. Power of love is that it can change the natural tendency of things.
4. The sonnet preseres their love and people still read about it.
5. To illustrate love’s impermanence Spenser uses the image of waves washing away the writing in the sand.
6. Women participate more now days and things are more liberal.
Sonnets 29 and 73
1. Envy, sadness dissapointment, regret, reflection, satisfaction
2. In sonnet 29 he envies other’s hope, friends art and scope.
3. in line 10 the poem turns from absorved self pity to delight in the beloved.
4. He compares himself to a tree in autum.
He compares himself to parts of ruined churches.
Twilight after sunset.
The glowing embers of a fire.
The speaker is old and his beloved is young.
5. Line 13
