Read the excerpt from Grendel. There was nothing to stop the advance of man. Huge boars fled at the click of a harness. Wolves w
ould cower in the glens like foxes when they caught that deadly scent. I was filled with a wordless, obscurely murderous unrest. How is Grendel characterized in this passage? fearful sickly troubled peaceful'
In this excerpt, Grendel is characterized as troubled.
<u>'Troubled' is an adjective used to refer to someone that has problems that make him/her feel concerned and nervous</u>.<u> What indicates that Grendel is troubled is the last sentence</u> ("I was filled with a wordless, obscurely murderous unrest"), especially the use of certain words, such as "wordless" and "unrest", which refer to a disturbed state. <em>Grendel </em>is a novel written by John Gardner and it retells the story of the poem<em> Beowulf</em> from the point of view of Grendel, who is considered a villain in the poem but is presented as a sympathetic character in the novel.
