Examples Of Grendel In Beowulf

In the Epic Poems Beowulf, by an anonymous Anglo-Saxon poet, and Grendel written by John Gardner, Grendel, regardless of what he does, has been seen as unsafe to man. Grendel, perceived as treacherous, is just misunderstood and an outcast to society. The back story of Grendel is crucial to the reader’s understanding of Grendel becoming a monster. Grendel’s life experiences of his environment, men and meeting a dragon contribute to the drastic change.

The characteristics of Grendel and Beowulf helps compare and contrast the characteristics of monsters and heroes by helping the reader understand the traits of the two. Heroes are often characterized as confident and brave, while monsters are characterized as hateful and are often feared. In the poem, Beowulf's ability and drive to stand up to Grendel without using weapons demonstrates that heroes are self confident because they do not worry about the safety or difficulty of things. On the other hand, monsters are characterized as evil and feared. Grendel helps reveal these traits by the way he captures men, stated in the paragraph as, " The monster of evil

In the novel, Grendel, the sheltered and abnormal creature that is Grendel adopted a solipsistic view and became overwhelmed by the underground world he had grown accustomed to after experiencing an interaction with man for the first time. After years of exposure to solely the underground world, Grendel emerged from his cave and found the real world. Upon his first interaction with man, Grendel had an immediate sensation that "there was something wrong" (21). From the moment Grendel first encountered man there was an installation of a barrier between the two. The clear distance that was created contributed to Grendel's solipsistic view because it caused him to be isolated from this newly found world which led to his belief that the outside world was meaningless

In the novel, Grendel is portrayed as a monster with an unhappy soul. The monster character inside Grendel feels he is friendless with the exception of his mother. John Gardner’s novel Grendel is a retelling of the poem Beowulf. Grendel’s desire to “fit in” with humanity is displayed throughout the novel, but by the end he seems to abandon those desires. Grendel battles on being himself and being a part of the human world throughout the novel as described in the situations that he encounters. Main events in the novel surround his mother’s love and the dragon’s evil plans for him.

Grendel is a historical character that has two different sides of the film Grendel is the enemy of Hrothgar and the Danes, Beowulf has been called by Hrothgar to slay the beast Grendel has no threat towards beowulf. In Part-1 Grendel is only a kid at the beginning while his father is being killed by Hrothgar, Hrothgar thinks that Grendel shouldn’t be killed even though his Danes don’t see him. As Grendel grew up he doesn’t know how to speak but he does know what hes up against except towards Beowulf. Part-2 Grendel is with his mother and he hears Hrothgar and his people shouting and having a good time, As it gets louder it is effecting Grendel more and more then Grendel come up, Starts killing his people before Beowulf gets there.

While reading Beowulf I thought Grendel was a horrible monster and by classification, he is considered a monster. I couldn’t understand why he would kill people just because “it was fun” but after reading Grendel I have a different opinion of Grendel. I personally don’t think Grendel is a monster. I say this because when Grendel was a “boy” all he wanted was a friend. The creatures in the cavern were older so he never had any real friends. Finally, one day he had enough of wondering what the world of humans was like and decided to go to the world of humans. After being in the world of humans for a little while he saw his first humans and described them as having “dead-looking eyes and gray-white faces.” (Ch.2, pg.23) I know when he saw them he was scared but wanted to speak but being a big and strong “monster” he knew he couldn’t speak. Though he hid

Grendel is a powerful beast that can not be stop. Grendel in the Grendel never been stop everybody they try to kill with their swords but it never work. When Beowulf came to the see Grendel their where other people trying to kill him. When Beowulf so the other people getting toning apart heads bitten off arms and their body be torn apart. Beowulf told Grendel that I am going to fight you with my hands he keep hitting him with chandelier greened started to run away from him. When Grendel tried to get away Beowulf but he had his arm lock around a chain so that he was trying to go back to his cave but Beowulf would not let him but he end up taking Grendel head off. When Beowulf brought Grendel head to the people he said the Grendel had been killed.

In the epic poem, Beowulf, by Seamus Heaney, Grendel is made into a monster by the reaction of society to his ancestry and the roles of Cain and his mother.

In the book Beowulf: A New Verse, Grendel has the right to be a monster. Grendel, one of the the antagonists in the story, gets constantly harassed by troublesome people who sing songs of the Heavens all day. The book says,”Hunting for prey in the high hall”(Heaney line 113) Grendel being a man eating demon was getting provoked and wanted the bards to stop their ludicrous chanting, but the bards did not stop and Grendel decided to teach them a lesson by devouring everybody. Now Grendel did not have a great motherly figure, saying that Grendel’s mother the “monstrous hell-bride, brooded on her wrongs. She had been forced down into fearful waters,he cold depths, after Cain had killed.his father's son, felled his own brother with a sword” (lines

Grendel’s Defeat Beowulf embodies the ideal of a strong, courageous warrior that was desired and revered during this age. This is shown through the many feats he boasts about, including how he has “battled and bound…raided…slaughtered…devastated” many monsters during his travels (lines 420-424). This is further shown in the defeats of Grendel and Grendel’s mother when he stays at Heorot.

Grendel is presented as this devil like character in the story “Beowulf” the story is the oldest story written in the english language and it was written by Christians and Grendel in the story is represented by the Pegan religion and this story was a way for Christians to convert people to Christianity from the Pegan religion. I will be telling why Grendel is an important character in the story “Beowulf”. I right about Grendel’s role in Beowulf, what Grendel does to the people in the story, and why he is important to Beowulf. In Beowulf Grendel is the main villain in the story he was represented by the Pegan religion and he was made out to be this vicious beast who was a savage and had no regard for human life itself.

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