1. The Enemy Outside And Within: Grendel And His Mother
... the old English epic, Beowulf, this pattern of making monsters out to be outsiders remains firmly in place, witnessed through the descriptions, attitudes, and actions of the fiend Grendel and his horrific Mother. There exists, however, a paradoxical symbolism within the epic's framework concerning this beast and his kin in which they serve as examples of the negative aspects of the Germanic ... know her. She remains an amorphous phantom, "that female horror/monstrous hell-bride" (ln.1259-1260), a shape outside of human comprehension. Furthermore, whereas Grendel lived just on the outski...
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