He once said "Not of course, that I fool myself with thoughts that I"m more noble" (Gardner 6). ... Grendel is "Pointless, ridiculous monster crouched in the shadows, stinking of dead men, murdered children, martyred cows" (Gardner 6). ... But dragons, my boy, have a whole different kind of mind" (Gardner 62). ...
This characterization of Grendel is exemplified and manifested in Raffel's Beowulf, Gardner's Grendel, and The Beowulf film directed by Robert Zemeckis. ... Gardner's Grendel displays how Grendel has no other companions except for his mother; leading him to have a lonely and miserable life. ... "I would bawl and hurl myself at my mother and she would reach out her claws and seize me, though I could see I alarmed her ( I had teeth like a saw), and she would smash me to her fat, limp breast as if to make me a part of her flesh again"(Gardner 17). ...
Throughout time people have wished to understand what animals want and to understand what they are saying. In Grendel, by John Gardner, the humans had the opportunity to understand the monster Grendel, but wouldn"t give him a chance because he was different. The humans just assumed Grendel was dri...
