John Gardner’s novel Grendel gives the reader a new perspective on the classic "good vs. Evil" plot. From the start of the book the reader understand what Grendel is and are very uneasy about the whole situation. Like animals they are frightened of anything that is different from what they are used to. When Grendel attempts to communicate they show their \ being able to view the story from Grendel’s point of view the reader might assume that the humans had every right
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Grendel is a fictional character‚ designed by John Gardner. Throughout the book Grendel develops new philosophies as he continues to explore the world and encounters new surroundings. Solipsism is an idea that everything is created out of your own mind‚ that your mind is the only thing to actually exist. Nihilism is the thought that life is meaningless. Solipsism is developed after Grendel explores his new world for the first time. Nihilism is created in Grendel after he has a discussion with a
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of Beowulf and the Novel Grendel Grendel is a monster‚ no matter what way he is described. A being that brings misery to all . This makes the next statement just captivating: the two Grendel’s in the poem of Beowulf and the novel Grendel‚ are two completely different beings. In the poem‚ Grendel is a mindless brute for a hero to slay; in the novel he interprets philosophy and is an unbiased mind viewing mankind . Beowulf is the main character in his own Epic‚ with Grendel being the first obstacle
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England. It is believed to be approximately 1000 years old. Grendel was written in 1971by John Gardner. Gardner wrote this epic in a different point of view from the original Beowulf. Grendel is told from the point of view of the character‚ Grendel. It is interesting how the reader feels about the characters being told from different points of view. In Beowulf‚ Beowulf is a great‚ honorable warrior who battles with a monster named Grendel. The characters in Beowulf demonstrate bravery‚ honor‚ courage
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Jeffrey Ding Period 5 Grendel Grendel is the main antagonist in the story so far. In the most basic terms‚ Grendel is a giant‚ cannibal creature dwelling in the outer darkness. He is first described as a demon that bears the curse of the seed of Cain‚ this means he’s a member of a resented and exiled lineage that includes marauding monsters and menacing trolls. Like Cain‚ Grendel is an outcast and haunts the swamplands on the boundary of human society. Although the poem doesn’t have an
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against the monster Grendel‚ who has been terrorizing Hrothgar ’s kingdom for a long length of time. He then battles Grendel ’s mother‚ who is seeking revenge on Beowulf for him killing her son. His final battle is against a dragon‚ who is seeking revenge on the town for a man stealing from his treasure horde. Each of these battles is fought for an entirely different reason‚ and each has an enormous impact on his life and character. Beowulf first fights the monster Grendel. Grendel is an outcast from
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The relationships as elaborated in John Gardner’s Grendel also open up a new perspective to how Grendel has “fallen” from humanity into the tragic anti-hero as Gardner takes original characters such as Grendel’s mother and the dragon and transforms them from the original text into life changing characters that have helped develop Grendel’s alienation and hatred towards the world. In the original “Beowulf” not much is given about Grendel’s relationship between his mother and himself‚ as poem only
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the protagonist and Grendel as the antagonist. However some may think differently about this ancient piece of literature. Some may look at this piece of literature like the best piece someone has ever wrote. A lot look at it with the protagonist and antagonist switched but just by reading the story‚ it’s very hard to make Grendel a good guy. I look at this oldest surviving piece of literature the same way the author looks at it. The author looks at it like good v. evil. Grendel is “a powerful monster
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Cited: Page Anonymous‚ Beowulf. New York‚ NY: Penguin‚ 1999. Print. Beowulf and Grendel. Sturla Gunnarsson. Truly Indie. 2005
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and the character Grendel‚ in Gardner’s Grendel‚ have totally different views of the same event. In Beowulf‚ the narrator tells the story in third person with Beowulf being the "good guy" and Grendel being the "bad guy" and vice versa in the story Grendel‚ told in first person with Grendel being the narrator. Furthermore‚ in most literature the author generally points out what is the "good" and what is the "bad"‚ but after analyzing the different point of views in both Grendel and Beowulf‚ it is
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