Grendel And Beowulf Comparison

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Monsters “ Monsters come in all shapes and sizes, some of them are things people are scare of. Some of them are things that look like things people used to be scared of a long time ago. Sometimes monsters are things people should be scared of, but they aren’t.-Neil Gaiman” ( Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane). The epic of Beowulf is an Old English story that has been interpreted for us to read in english, Beowulf is a Geat that went to Hrothgar's rescue when he was in trouble when a treible monster was terrorizing the town at night his name was Grendel. When reading the many different adaptations Grendel was shown many different ways he was always the monster but everyone always showed him differently. Society’s view on a monster today …show more content…

“ Instead the monster/ stalked and slaughtered/ old men and young/ an eerie death-shadow/ lurking at night/ lying ambush/ on the misty moors.” (Ringler, 2), he was shown the same way in the Beowulf (2007) he wasn't very smart and he did things just because he wanted to, in the Grendel reading he was shown as very mentally unstable he wasn't sure about himself and he seemed almost scared of himself, he is also still very smart but maybe a little sad and lonely, “ Ah, sad one, poor old freak! I cry, and hug myself, and laugh, letting out salt tears, he he! Till I fall down gasping and sobbing.(It’s mostly fake.)”(Gardner, 6). I felt that they always grasped the fact that he was kind of intelligent but still he is a monster and he is going to do monstrous

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