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Is Grendel Human In Beowulf

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Jaeden Young
Brit Lit 5B
4/30/16
How is Grendel Human
Human nature is found deep within all of us. We all share the same qualities and feelings; those of loneliness, jealousy, abandonment, pain, and anger. Throughout all of literature it seems as though the antagonist beholds these particular characteristics which typically leads to the conflict. In the epic poem Beowulf, Grendel, the antagonist of this story, can be described using these characteristics. What the reader fails to recognize is although Grendel is suppose to be a “monster” he really is more human than one realizes. Grendel should be looked upon as more humanistic than monstrous to truly understand his character and to support Beowulf as the hero.
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