Heroes Versus Monsters:The Battle is Not What it Seems
A terrifying monster shows up to bring great unimaginable terror to a town in the middle of the night. The people are so terribly frightened that they do not know what to do or who to turn to so they tell the king and let him know what is going on to see if he can help solve the problem. The king finds out about the unexpected terrible attack that has occured in his land, but he can not personally solve the issue even though he really wants to. Because of the unresolvable issue the king is torn and calls for a courageous and daring hero to venture across the sea to help the towns people fight the horrifying monster that caused the tremendous amount of harm. The hero sails across the sea …show more content…
They are both abiding by a kill or be killed rule while trying to survive on their own. London´s book White Fang also seems to be written from the standpoint of a monster essentially. Most authors that choose to write on this topic commonly write from the heroes or the victims point of view. Gardner chose to show this side because it is uncommon for the stories to be told from this point of view and it brings an interesting aspect in with more things to analyze. If you wonder why Grendel did the things he did, reading from his viewpoint would be a great way to help understand what was going on and why chose to cause all of that harm and damage to the people like he did. After Grendel fled from the dining hall he decided he would start his journey home. It was night when he chose to attack, but it took so long that the sun rose as ¨He journeyed [home], forever joyless¨(Beowulf 46) Grendel came across a field and he saw a bull: when he saw it he ¨shrieked in fear.¨(Gardner 19) He tried to run away but he was not quite quick enough and the bull attacked him as he scurried up a tree. The horn of the bull had struck him in the lower part of his body. The horn tore through his flesh and injured him badly. He was now injured and stranded in a
A terrifying monster shows up to bring great unimaginable terror to a town in the middle of the night. The people are so terribly frightened that they do not know what to do or who to turn to so they tell the king and let him know what is going on to see if he can help solve the problem. The king finds out about the unexpected terrible attack that has occured in his land, but he can not personally solve the issue even though he really wants to. Because of the unresolvable issue the king is torn and calls for a courageous and daring hero to venture across the sea to help the towns people fight the horrifying monster that caused the tremendous amount of harm. The hero sails across the sea …show more content…
They are both abiding by a kill or be killed rule while trying to survive on their own. London´s book White Fang also seems to be written from the standpoint of a monster essentially. Most authors that choose to write on this topic commonly write from the heroes or the victims point of view. Gardner chose to show this side because it is uncommon for the stories to be told from this point of view and it brings an interesting aspect in with more things to analyze. If you wonder why Grendel did the things he did, reading from his viewpoint would be a great way to help understand what was going on and why chose to cause all of that harm and damage to the people like he did. After Grendel fled from the dining hall he decided he would start his journey home. It was night when he chose to attack, but it took so long that the sun rose as ¨He journeyed [home], forever joyless¨(Beowulf 46) Grendel came across a field and he saw a bull: when he saw it he ¨shrieked in fear.¨(Gardner 19) He tried to run away but he was not quite quick enough and the bull attacked him as he scurried up a tree. The horn of the bull had struck him in the lower part of his body. The horn tore through his flesh and injured him badly. He was now injured and stranded in a