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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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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Grendel Deep within the earth‚ in the frigid darkness laid the mighty beast Grendel. His tall‚ grisly frame trembled as the melodious hymns floated down to his lair. The joyful music sounded like liquid gold and it stung Grendel’s ears. He howled a mournful‚ drawn-out growl in pain. After several days of the Earthwalkers’ continuous celebration‚ Grendel was becoming steadily impatient‚ thirsting for retribution. How he longed to taste the bitter‚ metallic blood that coursed through their veins
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important figures in stories as giving personalities and traits specific to them. It also drives the plot‚ as in Homer’s The Odyssey and Virgil’s The Aeneid the epics are based on the telling of the protagonist’s journey. Another piece of literature‚ Grendel‚ written by John Gardner‚ utilizes storytelling in a different manner. The main character bases his self-understanding off of the storytelling done by the Shaper‚ a blind bard telling historical tales. The function of storytelling in Gardner’s‚ Homer’s
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Descriptive Essay Of Grendel In This Descriptive essay‚ I will be writing about the Monster "Grendel‚’ from the story of Beowulf. I will be giving details about him‚ while he is in action in a scene of the story‚ which will lead to my conclusion of why I believe he is a coward‚ a horrible monster‚ & above all‚ an obmination. Prepared to spill the blood of unsuspecting‚ drunken warriors in their sleep‚ Grendel quickly broke doen the reinforced door to the Herot
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Grendel ’s Monstrosity Monstrosity is something that is outrageously or offensively wrong‚ and that is just what Grendel demonstrated in the epic poem‚ “Beowulf.” Grendel‚ who is the antagonist in this story‚ clearly showed he knew what he was doing when he hunted and murdered his prey. He even showed that he enjoyed slaughtering others. Through all this‚ he shows that he is explicitly evil and it was right for him to be put down like the animal he was. “That shadow of death hunted in the
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