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    The novel Grendel by John Gardner portrays the main character‚ Grendel‚ into a different prospective compared to the poem‚ Beowulf by Burton Raffel. While in both texts‚ Grendel has been displayed as an ugly beast whom everyone runs in terror‚ in the novel‚ the author explains how much Grendel thinks like a human. Grendel from the novel is immensely different from Grendel in the Beowulf poem because of how these two characters are portrayed‚ their morals and the way they handle their death. In both

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    Beowulf is the most famous epic of the Anglo-Saxon period. This is a story of an epic hero who fights against the most sinister monsters known to man. Beowulf and Grendel are the main characters of this tale; they are the perfect example of good versus evil‚ light versus dark‚ and hero versus villain. Beowulf is the story all epic hero stories have followed; the Beowulf with his hero qualities goes head to head with Grendel. Heroes and villains share a lot of qualities but a number of key characteristics

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    Grendel in the novel shares many of the problems as the Monster in Frankenstein does. Grendel and The Monster both share suffering‚ isolation from mankind‚ and their monstrosity towards mankind. Grendel and the Monster both share their isolation by being exiled from mankind’s society due to their “monster” characteristics. In the novel GrendelGrendel says to himself‚ “So it goes with me day by day and age by age‚ I tell myself. Locked in the deadly progression of moon and stars. I shake my head

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    Beware of Grievous Grendel! We have all heard of the great epic poem Beowulf; one of the first major works in English literature. Grendel is a monster in this epic poem‚ in which he terrorizes people. He is a huge‚ powerful descendant of the biblical Cain‚ the son of Adam and Eve‚ who killed his brother Abel out of jealousy. In the same way as Cane‚ Grendel was cursed and condemned by the mighty Creator. Grendel is envious‚ resentful and angry toward mankind. He may attack at any time‚ for no reason

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    Story The main protagonist‚ Beowulf‚ a hero of the Geats‚ comes to the aid of Hrothgar‚ the king of the Danes‚ whose great hall‚ Heorot‚ is plagued by the monster Grendel. Beowulf kills Grendel with his bare hands and Grendel’s mother with a sword‚ which giants once used‚ that Beowulf found in Grendel’s mother’s lair. Later in his life‚ Beowulf is himself king of the Geats‚ and finds his realm terrorised by a dragon whose treasure had been stolen from his hoard in a burial mound. He attacks the

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    The Emotions of Grendel the Monster Emotions are not just for humans. Animals have emotions too yet do we dub them human? No‚ we don’t‚ even though they too feel anger‚ sadness‚ and pain Grendel‚ thou he is a monster‚ has emotions. Would anyone consider him human? No‚ we all consider him a bloodthirsty monster. Animals‚ when they lose someone in their group they mourn. We feel their pain. Grendel takes away our family for food and fun. He feels joy from our pain and suffering. We should

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    “A 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

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    into the id‚ superego‚ ego. These 3 fundamental structures are what the personality develops from. The conflict of what each desires determines how individuals behave and interact with the world. Id is the personality component made up of unconscious energy that works to satisfy instant gratification of basic needs and drives. A person can be satisfied doing something for

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    Grendel in the novel compared to Grendel in the epic poem Beowulf is presented as the complete opposite or more evolved due to the point of view in both the novel and epic poem‚ descriptions of events he has encountered in the novel and his reactions to them‚ and how Grendel in the epic poem is described as ruthless towards mankind. The epic poem Beowulf is told from a third person point of view while Grendel the novel is told from Grendel’s very own perspective. Both stories due to the different

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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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