Grendel Good Vs Evil Quotes Analysis

A Monster or Not Friedrich Nietzsche, a famous German philosopher and Latin scholar, once said “Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you”(goodreads). This quote shows how people turn into the exact thing that they are fighting if the do it long enough and hard enough.This is seen in Grendel when Hrothgar and his men keep attacking Grendel and are acting like the monsters themselves. By fighting an evil the protagonist can commonly take this evil upon himself/herself and make it become the original evil vs a new evil that has been created. Although some people believe that Grendel is the real monster in the book, …show more content…
Dragon said “An angry man does not usually shake his fists at the universe in general. He makes a selection and knocks his neighbor down.A piece of rock,on the other hand impatiently attracts the universe according to the law of gravitation .you grant there's a difference.”(Gardner, 69) This quote shows the Ruthlessness of Hrothgar and his men in a very indirect way. It however very closely outlines a way that his ruthlessness is caused thereby showing the ruthlessness. Its shows the reason he is so ruthless because he does not get mad for a reason but for a specific purpose unless , the proper weapons and mindset are already in place. This weapon according to the passage is referring to the rock in the universe and how it attracts the force of of the universe. This shows in Hrothgar because he has the weapons and he has the force of will to fight urging him to fight against Grendel because of their mindset to attack anything different from themselves. This shows the idea of him being ruthless because of his ability to attack Grendel based on his nature of always being in battle and fighting those not agreeing or the same as him based upon the force of his instincts and