Looks aren’t everything People judge others by the way they look rather than their type of personality. A person may completely look normal but might have some flaws that make them different. You wouldn’t know that just by looking at them, you would have to get to know the person to figure out what they are like. Even if we see someone sketchy walking in an ally in the middle of the night, we assume that they are a bad person, because they’re in an alley in the middle of the night doing who knows what, but in reality it’s just a person trying to get home. Looks shouldn’t define who a person is; their personality should define who they are.
In the book Grendel by John Gardner and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, the characters Grendel and Frankenstein share similar qualities of loneliness and wanting to have companionship with others. Both …show more content…
Grendel feels that he is unable to make a single friend in the world, “I understood that the world was nothing: a mechanical chaos of casual, brute enmity on which we stupidly impose our hopes and fears. I understood that, finally and absolutely, I alone exist” (21-22). Grendel sets a mood for the reader to feel sorry for him. No matter how hard he tries the only friend he’ll ever have is himself. People judge both characters from their hideous and devilish looks, that when they see them, their first reaction is to either run away or try and scare them off. What they don’t realize is that these characters just want some interaction with people. “I was benevolent; my soul glowed with love and humanity: but am I not alone, miserably alone...They spurn and hate me” (Shelley 70). If people would try and get to know him, they would realize that he’s not what they thought he was. Both characters want companionship with people but at the same time they have so much hatred toward them, to want to harm them, because they
In the book Grendel by John Gardner and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, the characters Grendel and Frankenstein share similar qualities of loneliness and wanting to have companionship with others. Both …show more content…
Grendel feels that he is unable to make a single friend in the world, “I understood that the world was nothing: a mechanical chaos of casual, brute enmity on which we stupidly impose our hopes and fears. I understood that, finally and absolutely, I alone exist” (21-22). Grendel sets a mood for the reader to feel sorry for him. No matter how hard he tries the only friend he’ll ever have is himself. People judge both characters from their hideous and devilish looks, that when they see them, their first reaction is to either run away or try and scare them off. What they don’t realize is that these characters just want some interaction with people. “I was benevolent; my soul glowed with love and humanity: but am I not alone, miserably alone...They spurn and hate me” (Shelley 70). If people would try and get to know him, they would realize that he’s not what they thought he was. Both characters want companionship with people but at the same time they have so much hatred toward them, to want to harm them, because they