1. Grendel as an Existentialist
... me, or what I push against, blindly "as blindly as all that is not myself pushes back. I create the whole universe, blink by blink- (21-22). Grendel has had an epiphany, in which he fully accepts existentialism- he is the one that matters, exists, and he is the creator of the universe. This discovery detaches him even more from those around ... understand language, it intensifies Grendel as an individual, the only being that matters, "The world resists me and I resist the world,"" I said. "That's all there is. The mountains are what I define them as'- (28). In true existentialism fashio...
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