Gardner's Grendel: Significantly Different Picture Of Grendel Than In Beowulf
Beginning of paper
Gardner's Grendel: Significantly Different Picture of Grendel than in
The novel Grendel by John Gardner portrays a significantly
different picture of Grendel than the epic poem Beowulf paints. Grendel is
a non-human being who posses human qualities. In either story it is not
specified what type of ....
Middle of paper
.... bright paved
floor, crazed with evil anger; from his strange eyes an ugly light shone
out like fire” (Beowulf line 725), proves this point.
In the novel however this point lacks development. Rather Grendel
is portrayed as a confused creature passing through life looking for
answers. Surprisingly Grendel walks the forest in harmony with the animals.
He does not act like the blood hungry beast he is seen as in Beowulf. In
the novel -- Grendel is walking the forest and comes across a ....
------------------
Word count: 929
Page count: 4 (approximately 250 words per page)