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    Gimnasio britanico Ingles Valentina vivas 9-c Final project ALICE IN WONDERLAND AND CHARLIE IN THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY ALICE IN WONDERLAND Alice in wonderland is the history of a girl‚ and the day when a boy will said she to marry him‚ she start to see some kind of not common things‚ like for example a rabit with a clock‚ that always said ¨i’‚ gonna get late¨‚ at the start she didn’t know wath was happen and for she those things where something like kind of imposible

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    Grendel and the “Monster” The character of Grendel in John Gardner’s is more appealing than the “monster” in the novel Frankenstein by Mary W. Shelley because they both use of first-person point of view‚ they both show how the characters grow‚ and they both have difficult situations in the end. In the book Grendel by John Gardner you are taken on a journey through the mind of Grendel the beast that terrorized the land of old Denmark. In this story you get to experience what Grendel is thinking as

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    Throughout the novel Grendel by John Gardner‚ the monster Grendel has many different encounters that change his view on the world‚ but it becomes unequivocally clear that his true way of life is through nihilism. Grendel starts out in life as a nihilist where everything is meaningless to him. However‚ he longs for meaning. His only dilemma is within himself because he cannot see how an animal like him has any true purpose. As Grendel matures and leaves his mother he becomes interested in looking

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    Grendel: the True Hero A hero is a person noted for their act of courage and nobility of a purpose. In the novel of Grendel by John Gardener‚ there is a hero but he is not who would think it is. The issue of who the true hero is illustrated through the conflict between Grendel and Unferth. Grendel is treated as a monster that killed villagers and considered embodiment of evil. Unferth goes after the “monster” in order to have his name live forever in history and‚ apparently‚ to save his people

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    Grendel in Beowulf In Beowulf‚ a heroic epic poem‚ Grendel is one of the three monsters Beowulf‚ the hero has to slay. Grendel is described in the poem as a powerful monster that was spawned in the slime of the swamplands and is the son of “Grendel’s Mother”. The root of his evil is the humans who exiled him from the society and his aggression is driven by loneliness and jealousy. He represents evil and darkness among the Danes and is feared by them. The storyteller described Grendel as a “powerful

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    monster is made by men‚” a philosopher once wrote. In “Grendel” and “Beowulf” a monster named Grendel is doomed by his environment; unable to communicate with humans and built like a beast Grendel appears as a monster to men. The portrayal of Grendel as a hero differs in the novel and the epic‚ but they both portray Grendel as a monster in terms of society. The novel and the epic differ in Grendel’s role as character and hero. In Gardner’s story Grendel represents an anti-hero‚ so he has a heroic sense

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    Grendel is the embodiment of all that is evil and dark. He is a descendant of Cain and like Cain is an outcast of society. He is doomed to roam in the shadows. He is always outside looking inside. He is an outside threat to the order of society and all that is good. His whole existence is grounded solely in the moral perversion to hate good simply because it is good. <br> <br>He is described as a monster‚ demon‚ and a fiend. Grendel has swift‚ hard claws‚ and enormous teeth that snatch the life out

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    The difference is that Grendel kills for his own satisfaction. He is fulfilling Thanatos‚ the death instinct. “The eternal Lord avenged the murder on the race of Cain‚ he slew Able. He did not rejoice in that feud. He‚ the Lord‚ drove him from mankind for that crime. Thence sprang all evil spawn‚ ogres and elves and sea-monsters‚ giants too‚ who struggled long time against God. He paid them requital for that.” (Unknown 3). Grendel is essentially the descendent of Cain‚ through

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    the face of possibly the most terrifying evil imaginable. This epic describes the journey of a Gaet‚ Beowulf‚ who leads a company of soldiers to Denmark‚ in order to assist the King of the Scyldings‚ Hrothgar‚ by slaying an evil creature named Grendel. However‚ a parallel version of the well-known epic was later produced‚ titled Grendel‚ and it told the tale of Beowulf from the perspective of the antagonist‚ Grendel. This version of the tale follows Grendel from his early childhood when he first

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    Grendel‚ the first antagonist in the epic poem Beowulf‚ is most definitely a monster. To even compare him to a "rambunctious youth" is irrational. The narrator emphasizes his monster-like qualities and even refers to him as a monster. The diction deliberately portrays him as evil‚ as do Grendel’s own actions. <br> <br>The beginning line of the passage is ‚ "A powerful monster …". In line 16-17‚ the narrator goes further by saying‚ "… the monster stirred‚ that demon‚ that fiend‚ Grendel‚ …". The

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