... , ambivalent lines such as: "Grendel waged his lonely war" offer the possibility of dual meanings (line 164). If Grendel is indeed attacking Heorot due to his loneliness and misery, which are probably caused by his exile, then one may begin to question whether Grendel is as evil and malignant as the author claims. Grendel may not have been acting ... the monsters of the poem are the antagonists of the poem, the author still manages to make the reader feel traces of sympathy for them. Grendel's human depiction, exile and misery tugs at the heart of readers and indeed shows a genuine side ...

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... . He ignored the monster's feeling of being so worthless because of his rejection. As a result, anguish emerged within the monster that attributed to his rejection of morality as he stated "misery made me a fiend". It can be deduced that Frankenstein failure to nurture him had turned a virtuous creation into a fiend. By way of illustration, the monster bore hatred that he threw ... ...

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