Theme of envy: As a descendent of Cain, Grendel is the biblical son of Adam and Eve, who out of jealousy kills his brother Abel (Genesis 4). He is eternally doomed. Grendel's response in envy to Heorot's light filled and happy celebrations. The scops "Song of Creation" reminds him of the loss he suffered because of Cain's sin and makes him angry and seek for revenge from him stemming envy.
Theme of revenge: The central theme of revenge serves as motivation to many characters. Grendel delights in revenging Heorot as he hates about other men success, glory, joy and favor in the eyes of god.
Grendel's mother avenges Heorot against her son's death, motivated by mother's fury.
The dragons embark revenge against fugitive slave for theft from his hoard of treasure by raiding the countryside and burning the Beowulf's home to which Beowulf seeks revenge against dragons for the destruction caused.
i think he was a soldier in that poem
I believe the answer to your question is B. Conflict
Answer:
The narrator suggests that Gilray is deceiving him, but the narrator is actually not reliable.
Explanation:
"Gilray's Flowerpot" features an unreliable narrator, but very funny and humorous, which tells how Gilray asked him to water his plant every day, while he was away, but the narrator did not water the plant any day, for pyre laziness. The narrator claims that Gilray deceived him by saying that watering the plant would be like a hobby. We cannot know whether Gilray really cheated the narrator because he is unreliable.
