Beowulf & Grendel

John Gardner’s Grendel, is the first person narrative of the monster, Grendel, from Beowulf. In the Epic Poem Beowulf, the main character Beowulf kills Grendel. He does this because to him Grendel is an evil monster that deserves to die. In Grendel, Grendel tells his own story of how he met his fatal demise. In the beginning Grendel believed he was without purpose or identity. In the end, his isolation, suffering, and experiences led him to find purpose and identity. Since Grendel was born…

English III 22 November 2015 Comparison of the Grendel of Beowulf and Gardner's Grendel The story of Grendel written by John Gardner shows different image of Grendel than that of the poem Beowulf shows of him. Grendel is a beast-like creature that has a hand full of human qualities. In both stories it is not said exactly what type of animal Grendel is, nor does it tell exactly what Grendel looks like. The only idea that is given from the authors of Grendel is a small description. He…

Once upon a time, in a far away land, a child named Grendel was conceived. He was a misunderstood child. He was born abnormally large. As a result, his father wanted to get rid of his “demonic” child. He had to find a way to get rid of Grendel without Grendel’s mother finding out. He decided to throw the baby off a cliff in the middle of the night while Grendel’s Dam (mom) was asleep. He took the baby to the edge of the cliff, and just as he was about to abort the baby, he heard a harrowing cry.…

poems of Beowulf there were the epic hero and the dangerous monster. Grendel represents the epitome of an antagonist because he is an outcast, vicious, and cunning. Throughout the first poem, we learned how Grendel is an outcast. Grendel was a loner, hated, and feared by all men. [A powerful monster, living down in the darkness, growled in pain, impatient.](Beowulf, pg42) This showed us how Grendel was alone and in pain from not having anyone to talk to. As a reader, you can tell that Grendel…

what they believe. The monster Grendel is mentioned in the novel Grendel and the epic poem Beowulf, but the character is depicted differently. The two stories have different points of view on the fiend: one personal or intimate, and the other more objective, traditional to a legend. The character differs on the subjects of being loved, questioning the origin of the monster, and being a mindless killing machine. In both Grendel and Beowulf, the concept of Grendel being loved is touched upon. In…

Grendel Versus Grendel Grendel can generally be described as a brutal monster, that to everyone's best guess came from the devil himself, however, we can see that there are differing descriptions of this violent, monstrous character. The depiction of Grendel in the novel by John Gardner, and the depiction of Grendel from the excerpt from Beowulf is mostly similar, both are seen as a brutal monster, but we see a more in depth analysis of who Grendel actually is specifically, in Gardner's…

all movies originated from books, and this is absolutely the case with Beowulf the epic poem, which was translated into a movie. However although the poem and the movie are dramatically different, there are still some similarities in both characters Beowulf and Grendel that hold true in the epic and the movie. The author of Beowulf shows that Grendel is an evil and demonic, devilish creature that is cursed by God, whereas Beowulf is fearless and heroic- a courageous man who is watched over by…

In the novel Grendel by John Gardner and the epic poem Beowulf translated version by Seamus Heaney reveals the striking comparisons and contrasts between the two main characters. Both literature pieces emphasize the disparities as well as the indistinguishable comparisons between the two characters, successfully altering the reader’s views of Grendel, the big, bad, God forsaken “Hell-Brute” and Beowulf, the strong, selfless hero, the benediction of Heorot, by means of value and sense of war,…

Grendel, as expressed within the writings of “Beowulf”, is shown as a terrifying and horrendous, monster. However, there is not much backstory within “Beowulf” to fully infer that this is how Grendel truly is and how he truly acts. Within the story of “Grendel”, Grendel is shown as, not only a monster, but as a living thing that is coherent and thinks as a scholar does. Therefore, within John Gardner’s “Grendel”, Gardner is trying to make us sympathize with Grendel and his unfortunate life. For…

certain literary works such as Beowulf (Heaney) showed noticeable differences between the characters in the epic and the same characters in the movie. In the movie Beowulf and Grendel (Gunnarsson) and the epic Beowulf, cultural differences can be seen in how the same characters are displayed in various representations. The motion picture, Beowulf and Grendel represents the characters Beowulf, Grendel, and Hrothgar differently from the poem Beowulf because…