Grendel And Beowulf Comparison

Grendel Grendel is a tale about a monster created to be man’s enemy. The story has been told for many years passed down and most likely altered due to lack of recorded events. Now there are town main recorded stories of Grendel used today and Grendel is portrayed a bit different in both stories. Grendel in the novel Grendel and Grendel in the short story Beowulf are two very different characters, the way they are portrayed and the amount of insight we get is vastly distant. Grendel in the novel was a very complex character, his characteristics were more pensive, he philosophize a lot about himself and what his propose would be. The author was more in touch with Grendel and his feelings and thoughts he had. “Not, of course, that I fool myself with thoughts that I'm more noble. Pointless, ridiculous monster crouched in the shadows, stinking of dead men, murdered children, martyred cows. (I am neither proud nor ashamed, understand. One more dull victim, leering at seasons that never were meant to be
He thought out what his propose to man was and that he was meant to be the destroyer. “I feel my anger coming back, building up like invisible fire, and at last, when my soul can no longer resist, I go up—as mechanical as anything else—fists clenched against my lack of will, my belly growling, mindless as wind, for blood.” (Gardner 9). Even though at first Grendel just wanted to observe and be friends with the kingdom, he learned that he couldn’t and decided to play the game of being the “destroyer”. He let the anger inside of him rise to torment the kingdom. Whereas Grendel in Beowulf was just savage from start to end. “Snatched up thirty men, smashed them” (25). His anger didn’t progress much through the story, he was just angry all the way through. His character in Beowulf only wanted to kill and never had a