Making Meanings Beowulf
1. The fight between Grendel and Beowulf
2. Grendel’s look like hell and a ruined place, and Herot seems to be a great, secure and beautiful place.
3. It talks about the beautiful part of creation, and it contrast with Grendel and his world because everything’s bad and awful for Grendel.
4. To get what he wants in an easier way and maybe he’s a monster that is awaken at night. The images are the fact that he is the death and he is the darkness of everything, the bad things.
5. Grendel might hate Herot because there is friendship and maybe he was good but nobody wanted him so Hrothgar took him out from Herot.
6. That he is the one that can do everything, the one that can save everybody and can give protection.
7. It’s important to demonstrate that he is a real hero and that he can save everybody, these things that people believe about Beowulf help him to believe in himself. Weapons weren0t helpful because he has to kill him by his own and weapons aren’t good, aren’t part of a heroe and good person.
8. I think that he makes Grendel look like a person with fear of been watched but the feeling of damaging others. I do feel sympathy because is impossible in reality and he never attacked at day.
Reviewing the Text – Beowulf
a. Because it was invaded by monsters.
b. Because Hrothgar is protected by God.
c. They got on a battle and helped him.
d. The jealous unferth tried to demonstrate that he was a better person, so he replied calming him.
e. Beowulf fight with Grendel and took an arm from him, so Grendel died.
Making Meanings – The Seafarer
1. He is serene and likes a lonely life. He believes in destiny and God and that he would go to heaven.
2. He feels at home at the Sea, he likes to be alone with himself and really calm.
3. To god, what is wrong, good, bad, and right and to his beautiful religion.
4. That the world is lost and full of bad things in which he prefers to stay in his boat at the sea.
5. He believes in love of God, hope of Heaven, Praise, grace, and eternal life.
6. Are difficult because his life is composed of his sea and his mind. He tries to express how he feels about his life with God and his sea.
7. The truth of God, for going to Heaven with Him, because here in earth he isn’t doing something for his life.
Making Meanings – Lord Randall – Edward, Edward – Get up and bar the door
1. We don’t know why Lord Randall is dying or not, is Edward Edward we don’t know why he killed his father, and in Get up and bar the door, we don’t know why they’re fighting.
2. The mother doesn’t want that her son dies, so she’s scared, so it is the emotional effect.
3. Lord Randall, when the mother tells he is passionate and will die. Edward, Edward, when he said that he killed his father, and in get up and bar the door, when the men go into the house.
4. Maybe because she gave him the idea to leave or maybe she has something to do with the death of her husband.
5. Because it is an illogical fight because nobody will fight because the door is open, so maybe is ironic humor, but maybe is violent. It is violent because both talk with a violent tone.
6. I don’t know medieval ballads, because I don’t like the themes.
7. Yes, I don’t understand why people glorify violence. Violence has been worse but in its meaning it is the same as in the past.
Making Meanings – Sir Gawain and the green knight
1.Well, at the end the winner is the green knight, because Sir Gawain made a mistake and a fault about the deal that he had with the green knight.
2. The one he kept was courage because he went to fight with the green knight and the he loses his fidelity and sexual morality because he had sexual relationships with the wife of the knight of the casttle and he didn’t respected the deal he had with the man of the casttle.
3. He doesn’t demostrate his fears. He is weak as human, because he is sesceptible, passionate, but also knows how to lie and how to fear, even though he doesn’t demostrate it.
4. 2, he symbolizes the temptations of life but also the karma that life has.
5. Both the green color and new year’s day expresses the hope for the next time that everybody has to have.
6. Every description that the path for the place where the green knight is represents that the end of sir gawain is comming.
7. Represents the temptations that every human has, and he seems to be a difficult person over them.
8. The weakest points of every person, as the weakest point of sir gawain.
Reviewing the Text – Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
a. That as Gawain took the green knight’s head, the green knight asked for equality. So after 1 years he has to search for the green knight for his death.
b. The thing that he has to give the casttle’s knight everything that he does during the day, and what he does are not good things.
c. He makes Sir Gawain to see the reality of his life, as his weak points, so he gives him another oppotunity.
d. When he doesn’t give the host what he do during the day.
e. The green knight tries to kill him, but he failed at the first time, so sir gawain says him that even though he tried it was his opportunity and he lost it, so sir gawain goes away.
Reviewing the Text – The Pardoners Tale
a. He is someone very important because he is sent by the pope to give forgiveness to the people. b. Because they want to kill them to show that they can even beat death
c. Near the oak of the village
d. Two wants to kill the youngest one with a daga for the gold and the youngest one wants to kill them with poison. At the end they kill each other.
e. The Pardoner wants to sell forgiveness to the host, and the host gives a bad joke of the pardoner. The knight.
Making Meanings – Pardoners Tale
1. That when somebody seeks death, he or she will find it.
2. A person who lives in a village nearly, that kills men that done wrong for pleasure. That he thinks he is the best, he can beat death.
3. He actually is death and he told them where and how to die.
4. When they wanted to fill the youngest one, and he wanted to kill the others, all died looking for death.
5. He gave forgiveness and the guys in the stoy are not normal, at the end they die.
6. I think that he is so used to cheat, so he does it automatically.
7. We always have to seek for forgiveness. That we should be careful in what we look for, because it could find us.
Making Meanings – Whose List to Hunt
1. Yes, when a man is in love with a woman, he always watch her.
2. Anne Boleyn is the hind and the Caesar is King Henry.
3. That she has owner, so he has to stay away from her.
4. Because there’s no way to have her.
5. The king says that she was his property, so she has no choice.
6. He loves her but he has no opportunity because he can’t express his love because she is part of the life of other man, not his.
7. Love is beautiful, but I think that love is something difficult that makes you suffer in some way.
