Grendel As An Epic Monster In Beowulf

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In this epic poem there are characters which bring the poem alive. In the poems of Beowulf there were the epic hero and the dangerous monster. Grendel represents the epitome of an antagonist because he is an outcast, vicious, and cunning.
Throughout the first poem, we learned how Grendel is an outcast. Grendel was a loner, hated, and feared by all men. [A powerful monster, living down in the darkness, growled in pain, impatient.](Beowulf, pg42) This showed us how Grendel was alone and in pain from not having anyone to talk to. As a reader, you can tell that Grendel was not like every man in the town. He did not know how to be social with the town’s people. Being considered a creature from hell, Grendel could not co-exist with man. Forced to

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