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Compare And Contrast Grendel And Beowulf
In both stories Grendel is portrayed as a bad guy. In Grendel, Grendel can talk and basically just wants a friend to torment, while in Beowulf he doesn’t talk and is defeatable when fought. In the story Grendel, you can tell by the way he talks that he is fueled by killing. It gives him a certain rush that serial killers get while killing. I was able to understand Grendel in a way because he was lonely, scared and found something to do, which excited him; but all he really wanted was a friend.
In the story about Grendel he hides in his cave from people so they won’t kill him. He comes out when he is hungry and had killed seven men from the Mead Hall a night until Unferth came along. Grendel was very scared of humans at first, but then one
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