11. from Beowulf, “Grendel's Mother” and “The Battle with Grendel's Mother” Which of these shows the value that Anglo-Saxon culture placed on strength and valor? A) the Danes' return to Herot as Beowulf did battle in the lake
B) the theft of Grendel's claw by Grendel's mother"
C) the return of Beowulf's chain-mail by Grendel's mother
D) the Geats' carrying of Beowulf's battle gear from the lake to Herot

The main themes of the play are: fate and free will with the inevitability of oracular predictions is a theme that often occurs in greek tragedies the conflict between the individual and the state similar to that in sophocles’ “antigone” and   people’s willingness to ignore painful truths both oedipus and jocasta clutch at unlikely details in order to avoiding facing up to the inceasingly apparent truth and sight and blindness the irony that the blind seer tiresius can actually “see” more clearly than the supposedly clear-eyed oedipus, who is in reality blind to the truth about his origins and his inadvertent crimes.