Greetings, ladies and gentlemen of the jury. We present to you today Grendel, a creature accused of crimes of monstrosity. We stand before you today to prove to you that the accused is indeed guilty of such crime for which the penalty should be death at the hands of a suitable hero. Through the display of evidence and facts, we will validate our allegation and prove, beyond a reasonable doubt, that Grendel is absolutely who he is accused to be. For the past twelve years, Grendel has tormented the Danes with terror as he demolished their meadhall and cruelly killed their men. He killed without regret or remorse, and even took pleasure in terrorizing, killing, and eating them. A cease to this abomination’s terror came to be when a great hero
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Grendel cruelly killed others without any sign of guilt or remorse; his actions and feelings when taking the lives of others were not that of someone who feels shame in what he has done. “I laughed. It was outrageous: they came, they fell, howling insanity about brothers, fathers, glorious Hrothgar, and God...I saw myself killing them, on and on and on, as if mechanically, without contest” (Gardner 81). In his description of his first raid on Hrothgar’s mead hall, Grendel described killing the men as a mechanical action that could continue on forever. His nonchalant way of addressing his kills, combined with the fact that he described it as “mechanical”, is evidence of his emotional detachment from his murders of the men. He did not have any misgivings about what he did during his raids. “I held up the guard to taunt them, then held him still higher and leered into his face… As if casually… I bit his head off, crunched through the helmet and skull with my teeth and, sucked the blood that sprayed …show more content…
Grendel felt great amusement from tearing apart and eating humans. “… My wild heart laughs, but I let out no sound. Swiftly, softly, I will move from bed to bed and destroy them all, swallow every last man. I am blazing, half crazy with joy” (Gardner 168).“. I burst in when they were all asleep, snatched seven from their beds, and split them open and devoured them on the spot. I felt a strange, unearthly joy… I was transformed” (Gardner 79-80). Grendel with enormous joy, laughs while committing these vicious crimes. “I laugh, crumple over; I can’t help myself… While they squeal and screech and bump into each other, I silently sack up my dead and withdraw to the woods. I eat and laugh and eat until I can barely walk…” (Gardner 12). Although Grendel considers animals to be the dumber creature compared to humans, he could care less about killing them, instead he targeted humans to be his new prey. “I killed stragglers now and then—with a certain grim pleasure very different from that which I got from cracking a cow’s skull” (Gardner 76). The only time he felt compassion or anguish was when the Shaper, a harpist and storyteller in Hrothgar’s court died of natural causes. Grendel grieved because he was not the cause of his death. “I should have captured him, teased him, tormented him, made a fool of him. I should have cracked his skull mid-song and sent his blood spraying out wet through the
Grendel cruelly killed others without any sign of guilt or remorse; his actions and feelings when taking the lives of others were not that of someone who feels shame in what he has done. “I laughed. It was outrageous: they came, they fell, howling insanity about brothers, fathers, glorious Hrothgar, and God...I saw myself killing them, on and on and on, as if mechanically, without contest” (Gardner 81). In his description of his first raid on Hrothgar’s mead hall, Grendel described killing the men as a mechanical action that could continue on forever. His nonchalant way of addressing his kills, combined with the fact that he described it as “mechanical”, is evidence of his emotional detachment from his murders of the men. He did not have any misgivings about what he did during his raids. “I held up the guard to taunt them, then held him still higher and leered into his face… As if casually… I bit his head off, crunched through the helmet and skull with my teeth and, sucked the blood that sprayed …show more content…
Grendel felt great amusement from tearing apart and eating humans. “… My wild heart laughs, but I let out no sound. Swiftly, softly, I will move from bed to bed and destroy them all, swallow every last man. I am blazing, half crazy with joy” (Gardner 168).“. I burst in when they were all asleep, snatched seven from their beds, and split them open and devoured them on the spot. I felt a strange, unearthly joy… I was transformed” (Gardner 79-80). Grendel with enormous joy, laughs while committing these vicious crimes. “I laugh, crumple over; I can’t help myself… While they squeal and screech and bump into each other, I silently sack up my dead and withdraw to the woods. I eat and laugh and eat until I can barely walk…” (Gardner 12). Although Grendel considers animals to be the dumber creature compared to humans, he could care less about killing them, instead he targeted humans to be his new prey. “I killed stragglers now and then—with a certain grim pleasure very different from that which I got from cracking a cow’s skull” (Gardner 76). The only time he felt compassion or anguish was when the Shaper, a harpist and storyteller in Hrothgar’s court died of natural causes. Grendel grieved because he was not the cause of his death. “I should have captured him, teased him, tormented him, made a fool of him. I should have cracked his skull mid-song and sent his blood spraying out wet through the