Grendel Taurus Ch2

Grendel Chapter 2

"...there was a bull. He stood looking at me with his head lowered, and the world snapped into position around him, as if in league with him" (Garnder 19).

2ND House: -Inner strength and resiliency-Self-worth and self-esteem. -Nothing frightens them, they simply are-Surveys the landscape -Weakness lies on security

Heroic Values:-Stubborn-Grounded-Patient-Dependable-Loyal

Philosophical values:-Nihilism-Solipsism

“Please, Mama! I sobbed as if heartbroken” (Gardner 19)

“I understood that, finally and absolutely, I alone exist. All the rest, I saw, is merely what pushes me, or what I push against, blindly - as blindly as all that is not myself pushes back.” (Gardner 17)

Main Ideas -Loss of inocence-Transition from childhood to adulthood -The world is what he makes out of it-Humans are more dangerous

April 20-May 20

AP Literature and Composition Cassandra TorresAndrea Lee

Venus

“The world resists me and I resist the world, I said. That’s all there is. The mountains are what I define them as.” (Gardner 28)

TAURUS