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Grendel’s Literary Elements

Vincent Cammisa, Margie Castejon, Annie Chen, Tristan Dini, Caleb McCreary

Welcome to our first episode! In today’s episode, we are going to be talking about the novel Grendel by John Gardner. We will be discussing key Figurative and Literal elements from the first four chapters. As you listen we invite you to follow these references.

  • Pages 14, 9, 7 -The early chapter’s use of strong vocabulary terms and ideas: dogmatisms, falconswift, blind prejudice, justice, sanity.

  • Page 8 - How figurative Grendel is in description: hyperboles, similes and metaphors. Languages between humans and Grendel

  • Page 43 - The Shaper

Dive in with us and learn from the perspective of the Antagonist, Grendel.

Podcast link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JTIUP4M9PknVo5rO4_WDkZsSUM5W2avI/view?usp=sharing

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