Compare And Contrast Grendel And Beowulf

"I have heard moreover that the monster scorns in his reckless way to use weapons; therefore, to heighten Hygelac's fame and gladden his heart, I hereby renounce sword and the shelter of the broad shield, the heavy war-board: hand-to-hand is how it will be, a life-and-death fight with the fiend" (Beowulf 433-440). Beowulf makes his fight with Grendel more than a simple fight that he can slay him

When Beowulf hears about Grendel, he feels that it is his duty to stop Grendel from killing anymore, Beowulf leaves to go to Herot to destroy him. Beowulf is mostly being applaud for his long journey to face this terrible monster. Beowulf says, “Grendel is no braver, no stronger than I am! I could kill him with my sword: I shall not” (line 677). Beowulf feels

The poem quotes “ No weapon on earth is capable of harming Grendel”(Sparknotes 2017). So it was all on him to kill Grendel. Beowulf is still confident about killing Grendel when he see’s that no weapon can harm him. He had no other option but to rip something off because a sword wasn’t going to do the job. Grendel became frightened and tried to scurry back to his place and

Comparing the book and the movie of Beowulf, you find mostly differences. The amount of similarities between them are actually very slim. Either ranging from what is said or changing scenes completely altogether, they’re both very different from each other. Having said that, the differences need to be stated and reviewed. We will begin with the first scene in which the king is being merry and Grendel attacks the hall.

Both the epic poem Beowulf and the novel Grendel depict the same storyline, but from different point of views. Grendel’s personality tends to be much more evil than he himself depicts in the novel. Since Grendel is the narrator of the novel, the audience only gets to know what the story is like from his point of view, which he stretches the truth on numerous occasions. But, in Beowulf, the poem has a narrator and is in the third person omniscient, this means the audience knows how all the characters and feeling, thinking, or saying. Also, the theme nature vs. nurture appears a lot in Grendel which means his viewpoints on certain things are either

In the epic poem of Beowulf, Beowulf has to defeat 3 mighty enemies that test his strength as each battle became more of a challenge causing Beowulf to use different tactics to defeat them. In the first battle Beowulf faces the mighty Grendel that fights with no weapon and kills man with his bare hands. Beowulf knows Grendel hunts the mead-hall at night so he chooses to sleep in the hall with the warriors to catch the evil Grendel off guard. He chose to use only his bare hands because his sword would be rendered useless against Grendel ’s curse over weapons.

Grendel’s mother attacks Beowulf and drags him to her cave underwater. He tries fighting her with his sword but it doesn’t harm her. After he realizes it doesn’t work he tries to fight her with his bare hands and ends up knocking her to the ground. Grendel’s mother then tries to use her dagger to kill Beowulf but his armor protects him. Beowulf then spots a sword on the wall of her cave and uses it to kill her.

the arm from the evil beast. Then Grendel ran away and bled to death. It was made very

The battle between Beowulf and Grendel's mother has its similarities and differences as well. Throughout the movie, clues are given about Grendel’s mother when encountering mysterious hands breaching the water while

When Beowulf arrived at the land of the Danes, he announces his previous battles with other monsters. He also speaks of fighting the monster that he has came to slay with nothing but his fists, Beowulf says, I have heard moreover that the monster scornsin his reckless way to use weapons; therefore, to heighten Hygelac's fame and gladden his heart, I hereby renounce sword and the shelter of the broad shield, the heavy war-board: hand-to-hand is how it will be, a life-and-death fight with the fiend,’” (Beowulf 48). Beowulf had told all of his warriors from Geatland and all of the warriors from Denmark that he would go against this monster known for killing men from the mead hall with great strength. Which is impressive enough, but then he says that for him to defeat him he has to defeat him as an equal, which means that he will go against Grendel with just his bare hands.

The monster Grendel descendant of Cain attacks Herot due to their loud and disruptive celebrations. Grendel comes at night Beowulf, and his men are waiting for the monster to come so threy all go to sleep. As expected Grendel does come and he kills one of Beowulf men, and reaches for Beowulf when he gets grabbed by him instead. Beowulf and Grendel both fight it out.

Beowulf realizes that the beast does not use weapons, so he decided to not use weapons as well. This was a good decision because Grendel cannot be hurt by weapons. Beowulf manages to get a hold of Grendel, tears his arm off, and forces Grendel to flee back to his lair without armor or weapons. Second

Grendel was the epitome of a monster. This lurid monster growled with pain and became impatient as the music rang loud in the halls. The King of the Danes, Hrothgar, lived happily with his men, not knowing a monster lie occult in the darkness below. Grendel was the monster’s name. When the sun went down, he infringed in Herot and attacked the men while they drank and celebrated.

Beowulf’s first battle that portrayed his supernatural ability was with Grendel, a monster who has been plaguing Hrothgar’s kingdom. He comes at night and wreaks havoc upon the kingdom, killing the men who dare destroy him. Beowulf hears of the stories about Grendel and decides to take a journey to Heorot, to free Hrothgar of the monster. Hrothgar let him in with open arms because he knew of his ancestry and he settled the debts that his father left behind, “he knows your ancestry; also that he welcomes you here to Heorot,” (lines 392-3). That night after Beowulf arrived, he stripped off his armor because he did want to face this battle with Grendel having armor and weapons. He decided that he would fight him bare handed, “And the Geat placed complete

To begin, one of the many ways that Beowulf was different than Grendel is that Beowulf was brave. Every night Grendel snuck into Herot Hall to destroy King Hrothgar’s men. He did this while hiding in the shadows, sneaking around in the dead of night, and attacking while the men we asleep and at there most vulnerable. These are not the characteristics the brave, these are the characteristics of a foul, loathsome, cowardly beast. Mean while, Beowulf liked to meet a problem head on, in this case the problem was Grendel himself. Determined Beowulf sailed to Denmark to defeat Grendel, telling Hrothgar that he will take Grendel’s life with his bare hands. As told in the story, “ That mighty protector of men/ Meant to hold the monster till it’s life/ leaped out” (Raffel, 1963, l. 366-368). And when Beowulf got the chance to do just that, Grendel took the cowards road, “Grendel’s one thought