Which passage from Grendel best illustrates the theme "life is meaningless"? A. Be so kind as to give / us some advice, old man. We've come on a fairly important errand. (154) B. I kiss the ice on the frozen creeks, I press my ear to it, honoring the water that rattles below, for by water they came. (151) C. Except in the life of a hero, the whole world's meaningless. The hero sees values beyond what's possible. That's the nature of a hero. (89) D. And yet I address him, whispering, whimpering, whining. "If you win, it's by mindless chance. Make no mistake." (171)
