The Misunderstood Monster In Beowulf

The misunderstood Monster!

In the poem of Beowulf, everyone believed Grendel to be a bloodcurdling, and horrendous monster. The very place where Grendel lived, tells what a dark and horrible monster he was. From the poem Beowulf, it reads; “living down in the darkness…his den, his miserable hole at the bottom of the marsh.” Grendel’s upbringing alone set him up for being the horrendous monster that he was. Just imagine walking in his shoes for a moment, imagine being raised as Grendel was raised. Down in darkness, living in a miserable hole at the bottom of the marsh. One may argue that Grendel didn’t start out with the chance, or hope of being kind, and peaceful. Being raised in darkness, and in a miserable hole, would naturally produce a horrible monster as Grendel.

Grendel’s home wasn’t the only place that had set him up for evil. The heritages of Grendel also influenced him, and naturally bread him to be the sickening monster that everyone had feared. In the poem Beowulf, it reads; “He was spawned in that slime, conceived by a pair of those monsters born of Cain, murderous creatures banished by God, punished forever for the crime of

From the darkness of his home life, to the murders bread in his heritage, how could one not argue he was destined for the life of a bloodthirsty monster? But the family of the deceased held the biggest grudge of them all. They gave Grendel the name of the horrible monster that everyone feared. The family and friends told the stories of the way Grendel had smashed, and ripped apart, with his claws, the bodies of the sleeping soldiers. But if only they would have been kind to Grendel in the beginning of when he had first tried to establish friendship. If the villagers had not run away, screaming words of rejection, Grendel might have been able to hold onto his little peace he had once had. But instead, he had been automatically turned into the misunderstood monster that everyone