Grendel

A detailed Summary of Grendel

This novel is mainly based on Grendel's self-destruction; this was most evident in the last five chapters. In the last chapters Grendel destroys himself, he realizes that a persons life is already determined by a higher power and that the things that happen are accidental. Grendel ends up losing faith, he believes that he serves no purpose. During the second half of this novel, after he had encountered the dragon, Grendel becomes more and more evil until he has met his match. He does not die for love or for passion or for even freedom like most characters do in Anglo-Saxon literature. He dies simply, alone, and without courage or sadness.

At the end of chapter seven Grendel once again was contemplating suicide. Grendel was tired of killing people and he knew it was his nature to do so, he believed that ending his life would end his mourning. Even though Grendel turned into a savage beast after his encounter with the dragon he still mourned the deaths of the Danes he had killed. Grendel knows at this point that there is no hope for him to become good; he realizes that he was born into this and he has been corrupted by a pointless and brutal life. Gren

del never had enough courage to kill himself only the courage to kill others. He seemed to stick to the one thing that brought joy into his heart and that was watching the Danes suffer. The only thing that ever stopped him from killing was Queen Wealtheow but this only lasted a couple of days.

In Chapter 11 Beowulf is introduced, the person who is powerful enough to end Grendel's havoc. Beowulf is characterized as all epic heroes are; he is a man of invincible powers and the will to defeat all. The battle between Grendel and Beowulf was the challenge that Grendel was waiting for his whole life. He was sick of the usual effortless killings of the innocent Danes. This battle had great significance seeing that it was ultimately what caused Grendel's death. While the battle was going on Grendel confuses Beowulf for the dragon because they use almost the same style of speech and mannerisms. When Grendel encountered Beowulf he had said something quite similar to that of the dragon, this is what made Grendel confused of his identity. Beowulf said to Grendel while they were fighting; "A meaningless swirl in the stream of time, a temporary gathering of b

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Approximate Word count = 784
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)

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