To whom was the poem dedicated?
Here's three choices you can choose
-The lines show the strength of children, as they continue to succeed even without their parents.
-The choices of parents are not the choices of their children
-The children gain agency to act by the end of the poem, with the implication that they will act better than their parents.
Answer: He wanted Grendel to think he was sleeping so he could catch him off guard. If Beowulf was awake Grendel would’ve been prepared to fight him.