The theme in Grendel is where Grendel remains painfully stranded between what he knows to be true and what he wishes were true. From an intellectual standpoint Grendel understands the world as brute place that doesn't follow any meaningful pattern or laws. Also Grendel knows that the version of history the epics set forth is essentially a lie. He also knows that all the beautiful concepts of which the shaper sings-heroism,religion,love,beauty and so on are merely human projections. Grendel view on life is meaningless because he thinks life has no meaning to it. Life to Grendel can be like a game i guess if it ends it will matter but until the end. He has also witnessed with his own eyes the truly barbaric evolution of the danes. When Grendel
