Grendel And Frankenstein Comparison Essay
When we hear the word ‘monster’ or ‘creature’ the first thing usually comes to mind might be a brainless being that serves no purpose in this world rather to destroy our society. We soon find that to be very misleading in which bother characters in the novel Grendel and Frankenstein provide evidence that no only are they aware of their own selves but of the corrupted world that we live in. Grendel in the novel is very similar to the monster in Frankenstein because both characters are aware of their isolated selves, realize their destruction capabilities, and comprehend the grotesque appearances that they both obtain. Both Grendel and the monster are both alone in a way that people of their own kind do not exist, other than Grendel’s mother.
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The characters in Grendel and Frankenstein are actually the unique ones or rather the grotesque ones. The monster said:
I was dependent on none and related to none. The path of my departure was free, and there was none to lament my annihilation. My person was hideous and my stature gigantic. What did this mean? Who was I? What was I? Whence did I come? What was my destination? These questions continually recurred, but I was unable to solve them. (99)
He describes himself as ‘hideous’ in comparison to humans. Humans were all he knew and what he thought he knew was that humans were the only creatures to bear any beauty. Grendel also says, “Thus I fled, ridiculous hairy creature torn apart by poetry—crawling, whimpering, streaming tears, across the world like a two-headed beast, like mixed-up lamb and kid at the tail of abaffled, indifferent ewe. . . ” (44). He on the contrary uses a simile to describe him self. The picture of a ‘two-headed beast’ gives the look of a non-domesticated being. Both characters were able to realize their true uniqueness. They had an image of what beauty was and for them it wasn’t
The characters in Grendel and Frankenstein are actually the unique ones or rather the grotesque ones. The monster said:
I was dependent on none and related to none. The path of my departure was free, and there was none to lament my annihilation. My person was hideous and my stature gigantic. What did this mean? Who was I? What was I? Whence did I come? What was my destination? These questions continually recurred, but I was unable to solve them. (99)
He describes himself as ‘hideous’ in comparison to humans. Humans were all he knew and what he thought he knew was that humans were the only creatures to bear any beauty. Grendel also says, “Thus I fled, ridiculous hairy creature torn apart by poetry—crawling, whimpering, streaming tears, across the world like a two-headed beast, like mixed-up lamb and kid at the tail of abaffled, indifferent ewe. . . ” (44). He on the contrary uses a simile to describe him self. The picture of a ‘two-headed beast’ gives the look of a non-domesticated being. Both characters were able to realize their true uniqueness. They had an image of what beauty was and for them it wasn’t