Grendel Vs Beowulf Research Paper

In two books “Grendel” and “Beowulf” the authors created two different point of views from the characters of Grendel and Beowulf. The book “Grendel” did a better job then “Beowulf”on how the reader gets an emotional adventure, how Grendel thinks that Beowulf isn’t the hero he is, and how the author get’s the reader feel “connected” to Grendel until the end of the book. In the book “Beowulf” itself, the people think of Beowulf as a hero to all. The book “Grendel” makes Beowulf seem like a selfish man, but in the book “Beowulf” he seems like more of a hero type, he is praised and treated like a king after killing Grendel. Same thing happens in “Grendel” but Grendel himself thinks otherwise. He sees Beowulf as the villain. In chapter 12, page …show more content…
His “MAMA” is his only family. His MAMA only loves him because she brought him into the world. Chapter 3, page 17, “She loved me, in some mysterious sense I understood without her speaking it. I was her creation. We were one thing, like the wall and the rock growing out from it.--Or so I ardently, desperately affirmed.” Grendel was his only friend and his MAMA was his only family member. Grendel grew up playing by himself. The first time Grendel left his cave, he only went a few feet outside and just stared out amazed by this new place he had found. “...for the first time, to moonlight. I went no farther, that first night.” Every night Grendel would go farther and farther. In chapter 5 Grendel met a dragon that has Grendel looking at everything differently. The dragon had put a charm on him so that Grendel can not get hurt by any normal weapons, that has made Grendel’s heart more dark, this means that he can walk into the mead-hall whenever he please and won't get hurt by the weapons. Grendel always believed in God, when he figured it out. He keeps to his word. Grendel’s adventures and past is interesting, mainly because of where he came from and what he