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    Lucas Teixeira 2/24/2014 Grendel Essay Exam Grendel by John Gardner is a novel riddled with philosophical questions and stances taken by characters that invoke a reader to think beyond the words to get the meaning. At the end of the novel Beowulf says to Grendel‚ “As you see it it is‚ while the seeing lasts‚ dark nightmare history‚ time as coffin; but where the water was rigid there will be fish‚ and men will survive on their flesh till spring. It’s coming‚ my brother. Believe it or not. Though

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    Beowulf And Grendel Essay

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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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    a hero is occurs between the Anglo-Saxton tale Beowulf and John Gardner’s Grendel. Beowulf in Beowulf is a hero for he defeats evil and restores order to and for the common people. Unferth in Grendel however is unsuccessful in his campaign against evil‚ but like the man who emerges empty handed he is by no means any less of a hero. For heroism‚ as demonstrated in the Anglo-Saxton tale Beowulf‚ is altered in Gardner’s Grendel to convey the idea that intentions define a hero as opposed to actions.

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    Grendel Mood Analysis

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    ancestral crime. (She must have some human in her.) Not that she thinks. Not that she dissects and ponders the dusty mechanical bits of her miserable life’s curse.” Grendel describes his cursed mother in the cave that is wracked by guilt. Grendel does not understand the nature of their existence. This sets a mood for readers to feel sorry for Grendel because it was not Grendel’s choice to be a ridiculous monster that “stinks of death.” Readers

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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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    Beowulf vs. Grendel

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    Elements of a Series Grendel‚ a prequel to the popular epic Beowulf‚ provides a look into the dismal life of the unearthly monster. Grendel and Beowulf are clearly similar but also show striking differences in the elements of each story through the formulation of the setting‚ the portrayal and development of certain characters‚ and the depiction of motifs. In both Grendel and Beowulf‚ the stories take place in the land of the Gaets‚ ruled by Hrothgar. The Gaet people living in the town experience

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    gets stuck in a tree. He wakes up and hears them speaking in the same language as his but in a different dialect. They see Grendel move and they aren’t sure if he is a “beastlike fungus” or a spirit. After Grendel yells “Pig!”‚ the men become frightened and the king throws an ax at Grendel which skims his shoulder lightly. After the king orders his men to surround Grendel‚ he becomes aware that Humans are the most dangerous things he’d ever met because they have intellect unlike the rest of the

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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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    Beowulf: Grendel Essay

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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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    Point of View in Grendel and Beowulf Contrasting points of view in Grendel and Beowulf significantly alter the reader&#8217;s perception of religion‚ good and evil‚ and the character Grendel. John Gardner&#8217;s book‚ Grendel‚ is written in first person. The book translated by Burton Raffel‚ Beowulf‚ is written in third person. Good and evil is one of the main conflicts in the poem Beowulf. How is Grendel affected by the concepts of good and evil? Grendel is an alienated individual

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