Beowulf/Grendel

Grendels thoughts of revenge fueled his rage against Beowulf but he didn’t have the courage to back it up. “Instantly that monster, hardened by crime, realized that never had he met any man in the regions of earth, in the whole world, with so strong a grip. He was seized with terror.”(pg. 17) One day Grendel meets his match named Beowulf. After all the years of terrorizing the community he became over confident. He thought that he was invincible with the power to do anything but quickly found out that he was wrong. He knew that he was in trouble. His emotions especially show through when he is in danger. In Beowulf there was a quote about Grendel being “…this cursed creature lived in a monster’s lair for a time after the Creator had condemned him as one of the seed of Cain-the Everlasting Lord avenged Abe

In the longer version of Beowulf, the dragon becomes enraged when a man sneaks into his layer and steals a golden cup that the dragon was guarding. The dragon shortly finds out that the cup is missing and he goes in a frenzy. He starts to burn down the village to find the cup. The dragon is driven, through his possessiveness, to find one piece of treasure while leaving the bulk of it unguarded at the cave. He gets his impulse to kill people through emotions that, at times, can cloud the mind. Because the dragon has no logic of rationale, his motivation seems to be in vain.

Grendel’s mother had the same emotional pattern as her son but she had a reason to kill innocent people. Grendel’s mother was a very loving mother when “the fire in my mother’s eye brightens and she reaches out as if some current is tearing us apart” (pg. 28) as described in Grendel. Her human emotions want to become closer to her son to have some kind of a connection to her offspring. It’s like if a child begins to walk, the parents reach out to their kid as a symbol of safety. “Firmly she grasped one of the thanes and made for the fens as fast as she could.” (pg. 22) She also believed in the saying “an eye for an eye” like her son did. To accomplish this, she busted into the meadhall to cause havoc. She wanted to make an impact on them like her son did and bring more terror. Like mother like son; an eye f

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