Which passage from grendel best illustrates the theme "there is a monster in
every person"?
o
a. the king has given me splendid gifts. he will see tonight that his
gifts have not gone for nothing! prepare to fall, foul thing! (83)
o
b. (the warrior's] mouth, which moved - or so it seemed to me -
independent of the words, as if the body of the stranger were a
ruse, a disguise for something infinitely more terrible. (155)
o
c. no man above us will ever know whether unferth died here or fled
to the hills like a coward. only you and i and god will know the
truth. that's inner heroism. (88)
o
d. and the joy of self-knowledge, that's a great compensation! the
easy and absolute certainty that whatever the danger, however
terrible the odds, you'll stand firm. (85)