Word: grendel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...consciousness of the white race and its own abstract intellect, which attempts to hunt and slay it: Mr. Percy Boynton sees in the whale all property and vested privilege, laming the spirit of man: Mr. Van Wyck Brooks has found in the white whale an image like that of Grendel in Beowulf, expressing the Northern consciousness of the hard fight against the elements; while for the disciple of Jung, the white whale is the symbol of the Unconscious which torments man, and yet is the source of all his proudest efforts." Less tortuous is Mr. Mumford's own interpretation...