Argumentative text on Grendel’s characterisation

The text “The Battle with Grendel” is an extract from the epic poem “Beowulf”.
It focuses on the fight between the monster Grendel and Beowulf. The use of alliteration helps the reader to characterize the protagonists of the fight. The setting is dark. This is understood by the words “moors” and “mist-bands”. Thanks to this environment, it is possible to introduce the monster, considered “God-cursed”, that scares human beings. There is also the alliteration between “God-cursed” and “Grendel”, the name of the monster. The nature of the character is greedy. The idea is rendered by the use of the adverb “greedily”. It goes without saying, from these few things we already understand that the poet has negatively connoted the monster. His nature is conveyed by the semantic choices of the text.
Grendel is characterized as half man and half animal. The poet tells the reader all that he does and therefore Grendel’s characterization is made up through action verbs (ex. “He lopes, he rips open”). He is huge, strong, a very predator. The monster is compared to a devilish creature (“the captain of evil”). The reader can understand that Grendel is been described with expressions that belong to the religious code. “The monster’s whole body was in pain”. The wound is “tremendous” and “the sinews split” and “the bone-lappings burst”. The image of the fight reinforces the idea of Grendel’s defeat saying that he is “fatally hurt”. The monster is sent back to “his desolate lair”.
The verbs chosen add realism to Grendel’s actions: “grabbed and mauled”, “bit into his bone-lappings”, “bolted down his blood”, “gorged on him in lumps”, and “eaten up hand and foot”.
As for his psychological characterization, he is angry ("bubbling rage" and “wicked”).