Why should no-one speak to me with kindness? God has sent me away. Whatever I do I cannot get back to Him because of who I was born. All my ways are evil, all my deeds turn to bad. Why should I try? As a monster, he is forever barred from human society. Describe Grendel using 4 specific details from the text. What irritates Grendel and becomes his motive for attacking Herot? Grendel attacks at night.
He snatches up thirty men, bashes them and takes their bodies to his lair. Grendel symbolizes evil. Many readers have seen the mere as powerfully symbolic of the human subconscious, or of the mysteries that lie beyond human knowledge.
Grendel used to live with his mother at the bottom of the huge lake but he moved to cave closer to his killing zone, therefore leaving his mother alone, only to return without an arm and to defeat. Table of Contents. This story angers Grendel because God has cursed him. Grendel is a descendant of Cain, whom God punished, along with all his descendants, for killing his brother, Abel.
Grendel fears Hrothgar because of the Shaper. The Shaper has made Hrothgar so much more of a magnificent figure than he was before.
Grendel died of a fatal wound caused by the battle between he and Beowulf. Character Analysis Grendel Grendel is envious, resentful, and angry toward mankind, possibly because he feels that God blesses them but that the ogre himself never can be blessed.
Grendel continues down the cliffs and through the fens and moors on his way to the meadhall of Hrothgar, king of the Danes. As he makes his way to the meadhall, Grendel thinks of his mother, who continues to sleep in their underground haunt.
She is wracked by guilt for some unnamed, secret crime.
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