Everyone has a beginning and a point of creation. One’s beginning influences how characters will act in the future. Without proper guidance from the point of creation will affect how people and characters will behave in an environment. It is necessary to have proper interaction with one another in order to learn and progress. Frankenstein's monster and Grendel, characters from John Gardner’s Grendel and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, are examples of how a lack of guidance can cause an aggressive method to find out who they are which lead to a violent end.
The Frankenstein's monster was set up in isolation from the beginning of this creation. He had to learn the basic skills of survival from the beginning. "It is with considerable difficulty …show more content…
He starts off by exploring his hill and trying to learn more about his surroundings. His mother is the only one whom he can interact with but yet she is not capable of finding more about the society surrounding them. “ Not, of course, that I fool myself with thoughts that I'm more noble. Pointless, ridiculous monster crouched in the shadows, stinking of dead men, murdered children, martyred cows. (I am neither proud nor ashamed, understand. One more dull victim, leering at seasons that were never meant to be observed.) "Ah, sad one, poor old freak!”. Grendel has the same problem as the monster in Frankenstein. He learns that he will always be outside of the community. Grendel has his mother, who is incapable of teaching and interacting with him. “When her strange eyes burned into me, it did not seem quite sure. I was intensely aware of where I sat, the volume of darkness I displaced, the shiny-smooth span of packed dirt between us, and the shocking separateness from me in my mama's eyes. I would feel, all at once, alone and ugly, almost—as if I'd dirtied myself—obscene.” He is yet so close to someone who he can talk to, his mother, but yet still far since she is unable to communicate with him. Grendel has no guidance and no interaction with intelligent people, in which his future interactions become aggressive and lead to his
The Frankenstein's monster was set up in isolation from the beginning of this creation. He had to learn the basic skills of survival from the beginning. "It is with considerable difficulty …show more content…
He starts off by exploring his hill and trying to learn more about his surroundings. His mother is the only one whom he can interact with but yet she is not capable of finding more about the society surrounding them. “ Not, of course, that I fool myself with thoughts that I'm more noble. Pointless, ridiculous monster crouched in the shadows, stinking of dead men, murdered children, martyred cows. (I am neither proud nor ashamed, understand. One more dull victim, leering at seasons that were never meant to be observed.) "Ah, sad one, poor old freak!”. Grendel has the same problem as the monster in Frankenstein. He learns that he will always be outside of the community. Grendel has his mother, who is incapable of teaching and interacting with him. “When her strange eyes burned into me, it did not seem quite sure. I was intensely aware of where I sat, the volume of darkness I displaced, the shiny-smooth span of packed dirt between us, and the shocking separateness from me in my mama's eyes. I would feel, all at once, alone and ugly, almost—as if I'd dirtied myself—obscene.” He is yet so close to someone who he can talk to, his mother, but yet still far since she is unable to communicate with him. Grendel has no guidance and no interaction with intelligent people, in which his future interactions become aggressive and lead to his