In the story, I personally think the author uses Grendel as a symbol of what is evil

and immoral. It is a typical battle of good and evil, something that we see every day in our

lives. In the story Beowulf the author makes three main points to show that Grendel is

indeed a symbol of immorality, where Grendel comes from, the terrible description of

Grendel’s killing, and Grendel’s loneliness and isolation to the world.

Grendel is the embodiment of all that is evil and dark. “He was spawned in slime,

conceived by a pair of those monsters born of Cain”. (Lines 41-43). He is a descendant

of Cain and like Cain is an outcast of society, doomed to roam in the shadows, always

outside looking inside, an outside threat to the order of society and all that is good. His

whole existence is grounded solely in the moral perversion to hate good simply because it

by God, punished forever for the crime of Abel’s death. The Almighty drove those

Time after time he charges into Herot Hall, slaughtering the warriors like sheep,

impression on the reader by using Grendel as an immoral and evil creature in the story.

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