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Grendel - Essay

Grendel


is an unhappy soul in John Gardner's book "", because he
feels useless in society and doesn't want to accept his given role. Throughout
this whole book feels he has no friend in the outside word and no one to
except him besides his own mother. He doesn't want to except his role in society
which is to be the Great Destroyer. Man creates a huge problem in Grendel's life
and has had a major effect on the way he lives with man.
Grendel is unhappy in many ways. He wants to be accepted by man but never
knew why he was always shunned out of there society. Grendel in the beginning
never set out to hurt man just understand him. When Grendel shows up the first
time in the mead hall he yells ...

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his mother. She cares for Grendel but just with the natural
motherly instincts which Grendel sees as mechanical. Grendel doesn't understand,
"Why can't I have someone to talk to?" as the world starts to look darker in his
eyes. Animals of all sorts are enemies of his because they don't understand him.
Grendel is more superior
Grendel's role in society is to be the great destroyer. The Dragon tells
Grendel this " You improve them, my boy! � You stimulate them!" but Grendel dose
not want to except it. HE want to be part of the humanistic world. He want a
different role in society. This makes Grendel very unhappy that he cannot be
accepted. The Dragon puts a spell on Grendel that lets weapons not harm him. At
first he dose not like this because he thinks that the fun of destroying men
would be to easy at this point. He starts to grow into this though and plays his
role as the great destroyer.
This book shows how Grendel put up with man and learned to adapt to the
humanistic ...

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Added: 2/13/2004 12:39:12 PM
Category: Book Reports
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