Comparing Grendel and Hitler

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Composed in Anglo-Saxon England, the epic poem "Beowulf" deals with the adventures of a hero battling the forces of evil in the world. The monsters in "Beowulf" personify this evil. The universal literary theme of good vs. evil, found in many epic poems, climates in the various battles between Beowulf and the monsters.

While the monster Grendel represents evil in the Anglo-Saxon tale, a human being, Adolf Hitler has become synonymous with evil in the 20th century. In fact, Hitler is often referred to as a "monster". In this paper, I will compare Hitler to Grendel, illustrating the similarities between them, and why it may be fitting for each to be a symbol of evil in their respective eras.

In Beowulf, Grendel is a ruthless monster in the world, who is incapable of personal friendship and kills humans out of hate.

Grendel 1-2: A powerful monster, living down in the darkness growled in pain, impatient.

Grendel18-21: and made his home in a hell not hell but earth. He was spawned in that slime, conceived by a pair of those monsters born of Cain.

These passages show how Grendel is not only incapable of friendship because of his living conditions, but also because he was a descendent of Cain. Because of Grendel's ancestors

The passage shows how not only did the tails of Grendel go every where by land and sea, but also the people who heard the tails became afraid to even travel near Herot. Hitler became notorious for the same reason as Grendel, his horrible acts. If Hitler had not killed all of the people that he did, he would not be known at all. It may not be a good thing, but for some reason it always seems to be the evil monsters, that kill five million people, who are remembered as a well-known person. With all of the movies that come out having these horrible bad guys, it is easy to see why people in society always remember the monsters. Finally, look at this paper, if society did not remember the bad guys so easily, then I would not have picked Hitler right off the top of my head.

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It was not because of anything he did, but since he descended from Cain, he was guilty by association. Not only would he have been cast out by the people because he was a monster, but the "Almighty drove those demons out". It was not the same for Hitler, he was not born into exile; he put him self there. Hitler took himself out of society, he did not get close to anyone and to get away from the people he hated, he had them killed. The only time when Hitler was cast out society by the peoples was at the end of the war and before he was actually cast out, he killed himself.

Grendel is an outcast from the society which he lived in. Grendel was an outcast from the society since his birth.

Which means for twelve years he killed whoever and did whatever he want all through out Herot. Hitler's nazi regime came to power in Germany in January 1933. Even-though the war did not start until 1939; many of the hate crimes started six years before the war. The war ended in 1945 when all of Germany was over run by allied forces. Therefore, with Hitler running the nazi party for sixteen years, he too held his grasp on the people for over a decade.

He was in pain because of the singing of the people, so to stop his pain he wanted to kill the

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Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: English