Compare And Contrast Grendel And Beowulf

The difference between the story Beowulf and the story Grendel was very extreme. The characters were different in many ways. In Beowulf, Grendel was made to seem like a monster. No human attributes of all. He was killing without a cause. In the story of Grendel, Grendel was changing from human to monster, yet he still had human attributes. He could talk, he actually felt something in the beginning of the story, he had an addiction, the most human of all his traits. In the story Grendel states “I fled with the body to the woods, heart churning - iling like a flooded ditch - with glee.” It’s at that point you can tell he’s changing from human to monster. Unferth and Beowulf went about being a hero very different ways. Unferth was being