In both, the book Alice in Wonderland and the poem Beowulf, there are a lot of similarities and differences that come about throughout the stories. One of them is there being a monster in both stories. These monsters are alike, but also very different. Both monsters live far from societies reach and are defeated in their respective books. They also Beowulf, an epic poem written between the 8th and 11th century, features a villain known as Grendel. He was presented as coward, a monster, and an insensitive character. Grendel was born as a monster into exile. He was forced to live in the swamplands, which were far from any human civilization. Grendel had the strength of many and was very large, but he was not brave at all. He is described as
