In the novel “Grendel” by John Gardner we get to see the life that the monster lives. We are able to get a sense of what goes through the monsters head during this book. When we first met Grendel it was in the epic of Beowulf. We weren't able to get to know Grendel in the story but the only thing that we did know was he was terrorizing the town of Hrothgar. We are able to learn more about Grendel through the novel and see why he is the monster that he is. Throughout the novel Grendel learns new things about the humans and also about life. Grendel is intelligent and also can speak english. He feels like that he can't communicate with the other creatures in the forest because they aren't as intelligent as him. Also Grendel can't talk to his own
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He realizes that when one day in the forest he is attacked by a bull. Grendel is calling his mother for help but she isn't …show more content…
During the attack, the bull struck Grendel in the knee with one of his horns. After this Grendel says “I understand that the world was nothing: a mechanical chaos of causal, brute enmity on which we stupidly impose our hopes and fears. I understood that, finally and absolutely, I alone exist”(pg 22). Grendel finally sees the world is made of nothing and that also that he is alone in this world and that no one is going to help him. After this situation that he goes through Grendel has a different perspective on the world that he lives in. He sees the world in a negative way which builds the hatred that he has inside of him. Grendel gets a new look on what the humans do. Grendel sees what they do while hiding in the forest one day. While watching them Grendel is disgusted by what they do. On page 36 Grendel says “I was sickened, if only at the waste of it: all they killed-cows, horses, men- they left to rot or burn”. Grendel is disgusted because of the waste of food and killing that they do. He says that he would have taken the dead animals home and store but his mother would be mad at him because of the smell of the dead bodies. After this he was sickened with the humans. Grendel goes back to the town later on and
He realizes that when one day in the forest he is attacked by a bull. Grendel is calling his mother for help but she isn't …show more content…
During the attack, the bull struck Grendel in the knee with one of his horns. After this Grendel says “I understand that the world was nothing: a mechanical chaos of causal, brute enmity on which we stupidly impose our hopes and fears. I understood that, finally and absolutely, I alone exist”(pg 22). Grendel finally sees the world is made of nothing and that also that he is alone in this world and that no one is going to help him. After this situation that he goes through Grendel has a different perspective on the world that he lives in. He sees the world in a negative way which builds the hatred that he has inside of him. Grendel gets a new look on what the humans do. Grendel sees what they do while hiding in the forest one day. While watching them Grendel is disgusted by what they do. On page 36 Grendel says “I was sickened, if only at the waste of it: all they killed-cows, horses, men- they left to rot or burn”. Grendel is disgusted because of the waste of food and killing that they do. He says that he would have taken the dead animals home and store but his mother would be mad at him because of the smell of the dead bodies. After this he was sickened with the humans. Grendel goes back to the town later on and