Verdict+JenniferN

According to my fellow student's analysis, the position two had disproved the statement: “The world and everything in it is unplanned accident, existence is meaningless; the past is irrelevant; nothing matters.” Although position two may have been stronger on asking questions during cross-examination and consisted of more clear and constructive evidences, I personally believe that the stance of position one is more reasonable in terms of what happened in the book, Grendel. One of the major quote mentioned is Grendel's statement on page 21: "I understood that the world was nothing: a mechanical chaos of casual, brute enmity on which we stupidly impose our hopes and fears. 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." This clearly supports our argument of the world being meaningless because Grendel believes only himself is what controls everything else therefore nothing really matters. Along with this perceivable evidence, the Dragon, the omniscient character as proven in the book, stated numerous quotes that continuously supported that everything will have the same ending thus past is irrelevant and etc. The sequence of events that took place merely happened by chance with various level of luck. This is not quite possible to prove how accidents occurred since it is simply unexplainable. Despite or position one lacking in strong arguments to prove our statement, I believe that our position is logically supported by the events in the book itself.