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    The Battle With Grendel

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    banquet‚ Hrothgar and his followers leave Herot‚ and Beowulf and his warriors remain to spend the night. Beowulf reiterates his intent to fight Grendel without a sword and‚ while his followers sleep‚ lies waiting‚ eager for Grendel to appear. THE BATTLE WITH GRENDEL 235 Out from the marsh‚ from the foot of misty Hills and bogs‚ bearing God’s hatred‚ Grendel came‚ hoping to kill Anyone he could trap on this trip to high Herot. He moved quickly through the cloudy night‚ Up from his swampland

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    God and Grendel

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    either of the two‚ good or evil. In the story Beowulf good and evil are portrayed in a very black and white manner. There are two main characters representing both‚ one good and one evil. The good character being Beowulf and the bad character being Grendel. Their reputations‚ the manner in which they use their strengths and their surroundings define the good and evil characters alike.  A lot of times your reputation will say more about you than you ever could. In this story the characters reputations

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    Grendel & Existentialism

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    unfamiliar with until we talked about it in class. The relationship between Grendel and existentialism was profound to me not only in the way that it drew lines of symmetry‚ but in the way that it helped me to interpret the concepts behind the philosophy. This quote spoke to me because it demonstrates how Grendel is pressured into living an existentialist lifestyle by the very forces that he says push upon him. Grendel delves into the psyche of a man-beast whose only choice is to react to the world

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    Grendel Narrative

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    Grendel Narrative I will begin my story from the point of my arrival in Denmark when my initial engagement takes place: I began my terror long ago when I sat in the darkness yelling and growling in pain of the happiness and joyousness coming from Hrothgar and his men yet‚ they still challenge me‚ after seven years they still celebrate and boast and laugh with their music. I‚ Grendel‚ through my great strength and immunity from the weapons of humanity‚ vow to plague the mead hall. I stayed in the

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    Grendel In Beowulf

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    Grendel represents the Anglo-Saxons’ greatest fears of being destroyed and forgotten forever. And while today‚ we are better able to protect ourselves physically from outside terror‚ the fearful destruction he represents is still present. Grendel‚ Cain’s descendant‚ begins his nighttime assault on Heorot hall. He heartlessly kills and often eats the sleeping Anglo-Saxons. The poet recalls this terrible time for the Danes: So Grendel ruled‚ fought with the righteous‚ One against many‚ and won; so

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    have. In the novel Grendel by John Gardner‚ a monster named Grendel‚ who was once depicted as a complete evil creature in the epic poem Beowulf‚ tells the monster’s side of the story through it’s own eyes. By reading the text in the novel Grendel a person can realize that the monster Grendel was seeking attention and acceptance from the Danes‚ who were the human civilization which Grendel encountered on a daily basis. The author Gardner used this portrayal of the monster Grendel in the third person

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    The Dragon In Grendel

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    in John Gardner’s Grendel serves as a mentor for the main character‚ Grendel. Grendel visits the Dragon in his underground lair in hopes of finding purpose and meaning to his life of killing humans. However‚ Grendel quickly discovers that the Dragon has a unique viewpoint on life. The Dragon tells Grendel that he has the ability to see into the future‚ and‚ as a result of this vast knowledge‚ life has no real purpose. The river of time can not be slowed or altered. He tells Grendel that his place in

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    Grendel : Evil

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    In the novel‚ Grendel by John Gardener‚ Grendel is a human-like creature capable of rational thought as well as feeling emotions. Early on in the story Gardener depicts Grendel as being very observant‚ critical and somewhat spiteful of the world around him. He describes himself as a murderous monster who smells of death and crouches in the shadows. Grendel watches the humans from the shadows of the trees and at first it seems as though they are the real monsters‚ slaughtering and pillaging all for

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    Grendel Analysis

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    his freedom.” This is the illusion breaker. This helps us lean toward the fact that Grendel is‚ in fact‚ a human. Grendel is fighting for his life‚ out of fear. If he were truly a monster‚ he would not feel the need to run from Beowulf. Secondly‚ the poet’s use of emotive words help us feel the murderous and twisted feelings of Grendel. The following quote is from line 394‚ “Grendel came‚ hoping to kill.” Grendel showed up to Herot with the intention to kill as many people as possible. He has to

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    Grendel Essay

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    In both works‚ Beowulf and GrendelGrendel himself is generally given the same connotations. He is given kennings‚ called names‚ referred to as the evil spawn of Cain‚ and even viewed as a monster; but why? Why in both books is he a wicked‚ horrible‚ person who is harshly excluded from everyone? After stumbling upon John Gardner’s book‚ it was halfway expected that some excuse would be made for Grendel; that he wasn’t really the inexorable monster the thanes in Beowulf portrayed him as. But all

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