Textuality » 3LSCA InteractingSBosich - Grendel's characterization
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Grendel’s characterization Considering the text “The Battle with Grendel” in which is described the battle between the monster Grendel and the hero Beowulf, therefore Grendel in the heroic poem is the negative main character destined to be defeated by the positive hero and described in a harmful way. In the text Grendel is outlined as a monster, a terrible creature bloodthirsty and ruthless. Indeed, the adjectives and the name-callings used to describe the character have the goal of creating in the mind of the reader the image of something that inspires fear, which creates the idea of a cruel and inhuman character. Actually, in the text the poet refers to Grendel with the nouns “God-cursed” and “the captain of evil”, as a result condemning him from the religious point of view as an enemy of God. Going on with the analysis the reader notices Grendel has some characteristics typical of a monster such as the talon and the claws and after that, to highlight its remoteness from mankind, he is described as bloodlust and as a devourer of men, who devours and swallows from hands to feet without mercy. From these characteristics the character of Grendel seems to be a metaphor that stays for a human feeling, the rage. Indeed when humans’ rage boil over they gets out mind, they say and do something that they wouldn’t say or do, such as Grendel did in the text. |