Does Evil Unite or Terror People Apart? Humanity has evolved over centuries. Humans tend to fight each other for peace. This is the case in Grendel. The people would fight each other to reach a goal of capturing land or individuals. Grendel is really a monster who does not understand the meaning of life and humanity. Beowulf is a completely different man. He wants the best for his people and is technically their savior. The monsters presented in Beowulf are on a different side than Grendel. They destroy whatever is in their path. Killing for fun is a habit for them since they despise humans. Both stories present their own viewpoints on humans and monsters and it is disparate. Humanity in Beowulf is represented stronger than Grendel
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Humans want to conquer all the power and this is mainly in King Hrothgar. He will go to war with other groups of people just to make them their slaves. That is what is wrong with the people in this story. Fighting is always among their daily lives and there is no sense of unity. Grendel was very dangerous and he even thought that “no wolf was so vicious to other wolves, but I half believed they weren’t serious” (Gardner 32). This confused Grendel because he thought that they were supposed to be friendly, but they were always against each other. Grendel took out his confusion on the humans by eating their flesh, so he added more problems to their everlasting fighting. The only time of unity came at the end of Grendel when Beowulf came to end Grendel’s life. The people gathered around Beowulf to do this and he succeeded. Besides that, Grendel does not present humanity in a form where they are living in a purpose of …show more content…
Humans took on a greedy role at the end where they stole the dragon’s treasure. That is still acceptable because they are not fighting. Humans were also better people because they were “crying that no better kind had ever lived, no prince so mild, no man so open to his people, so deserving of praise” (Lamb, Raffel 3180-3182). Emotions were shown and this meant that humans could live with feelings. Grendel showed humans as emotionless in certain aspects because there were so many deaths. Fate can go along with this as there were more Pagan elements in Grendel. The end goal of Beowulf was meant to unite the people with motives such as unity, togetherness, and faith. This goal was accomplished because of how many references to Jesus, and leadership through
Humans want to conquer all the power and this is mainly in King Hrothgar. He will go to war with other groups of people just to make them their slaves. That is what is wrong with the people in this story. Fighting is always among their daily lives and there is no sense of unity. Grendel was very dangerous and he even thought that “no wolf was so vicious to other wolves, but I half believed they weren’t serious” (Gardner 32). This confused Grendel because he thought that they were supposed to be friendly, but they were always against each other. Grendel took out his confusion on the humans by eating their flesh, so he added more problems to their everlasting fighting. The only time of unity came at the end of Grendel when Beowulf came to end Grendel’s life. The people gathered around Beowulf to do this and he succeeded. Besides that, Grendel does not present humanity in a form where they are living in a purpose of …show more content…
Humans took on a greedy role at the end where they stole the dragon’s treasure. That is still acceptable because they are not fighting. Humans were also better people because they were “crying that no better kind had ever lived, no prince so mild, no man so open to his people, so deserving of praise” (Lamb, Raffel 3180-3182). Emotions were shown and this meant that humans could live with feelings. Grendel showed humans as emotionless in certain aspects because there were so many deaths. Fate can go along with this as there were more Pagan elements in Grendel. The end goal of Beowulf was meant to unite the people with motives such as unity, togetherness, and faith. This goal was accomplished because of how many references to Jesus, and leadership through