Chaos in the Universe At first, I chose to read John Gardner’s Grendel because I thought it was a short and simple book. However, after I began reading Grendel I began to note the many themes of the book. One theme is that the universe cannot function without chaos. One may think that the universe would be better off without chaos. One may think that the universe would be better with order as its ruling force, but one would be wrong. Ancient civilizations have ruled that the universe needs an equal balance of order and chaos, an equal balance of yin and yang, with no force dominating the other. Scientists believe that the universe has a natural tendency to lean towards entropy, which is a gradual decline towards disorder. This relates to
