Description Of Grendel From Beowulf

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How do you describe grendel from Beowulf?

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Likely the poem’s most memorable creation, Grendel is one of the three monsters that Beowulf battles. His nature is ambiguous. Though he has many animal attributes and a grotesque, monstrous appearance, he seems to be guided by vaguely human emotions and impulses, and he shows more of an interior life than one might expect. Exiled to the swamplands outside the boundaries of human society, Grendel is an outcast who seems to long to be reinstated. The poet hints that behind Grendel’s aggression against the Danes lies loneliness and jealousy. By lineage, Grendel is a member of “Cain’s clan, whom the creator had outlawed / and condemned as outcasts.” (106–107). He is thus descended from a figure who epitomizes resentment and malice. While the poet somewhat sympathetically suggests that Grendel’s deep bitterness about being excluded from the revelry in the mead-hall owes, in part, to his accursed status, he also points out that Grendel is “[m]alignant by nature” and that he has “never show[n] remorse” (137)."


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Can someone describe the fight between beowulf and grendel?

Beowulf and his men spend the night in Heorot. After they fall asleep, Grendel enters the hall and attacks, devouring one of Beowulf's men. But Grendel dare not touch the throne of Hroðgar, because he is protected by the almighty God. Beowulf, feigning sleep, leaps up and grabs Grendel's arm in a wrestling hold, and the two battle until it seems as though the hall might fall down due to their fighting. Beowulf's men draw their swords and rush to his help, but their swords break upon Grendel's arm because he has put a charm on all human weapons. Finally, Beowulf tears Grendel's arm from his body at the shoulder and Grendel runs to his home in the marshes to die.

How do i describe Grendel from beowulf?

Grendel was described in many ways: troll, man, dragon, etc. You will have some room for poetic license. Grendel has been described by scholars as both a supernatural other and an ethnic other. From the point of reference of early law codes, Grendel and his mother were outcasts, outlaws, and people who by their very existence were a blight on the ordered life of society. He's a wild man, an outlaw, whose only companion is his mother and who must survive by means of theft, destruction and breech of law. Let your imagination run wild!

Grendel and Grendel's mother from BEOWULF...?

Well, knowing my luck some one
will answer this a minute or so before
me, but I've got parts of the book with
me at this moment (how ironic)
and here you go:

Grendel:
"...'Till the monster stirred, that demon, that fiend,/
Grendel, who haunted the moors, the wild/ Marshes, and made his home in a hell/Not hell but earth. He was spawned in that slime, / Conceibed by a pair of those monsters born/ Of Cain, murderous creatures banished/ By God, punished forever for the crime of Abel's death.

Grendel's Mother:
"Mother, living in the murky cold lake/ assigned her since Cain had killed his only Brother, sslain his father's only sone/ with an angry sword...."
"His mother's sad heart, and greed, drove her from her den on the dangerous pathway of revenge"

So I would say grendel's mom is seeking revenge and she's sad and angry that Beowulf killed her son.

Grendel is a slimy git that is outcasted because he's related to Cain...he's seen as a.....monster that tears people apart and eats them seeing that their annoyance from Herot doesn't end.

Hope that helped

What is grendel's lineage in Beowulf?

Some scholars have linked Grendel's descent from Cain to the monsters and giants of The Cain Tradition.
Seamus Heaney, in his translation of Beowulf, writes in lines 1351–1355 that Grendel is vaguely human in shape, though much larger:
... the other, warped
in the shape of a man, moves beyond the pale
bigger than any man, an unnatural birth
called Grendel by the country people
in former days.
Heaney's translation of lines 1637–1639 also notes that his disembodied head is so large that it takes four men to transport it. Furthermore, in lines 983–89, when Grendel's torn arm is inspected, Heaney describes it as being covered in impenetrable scales and horny growths:
Every nail, claw-scale and spur, every spike
and welt on the hand of that heathen brute
was like barbed steel. Everybody said
there was no honed iron hard enough
to pierce him through, no time proofed blade
that could cut his brutal blood caked claw
Peter Dickinson (1979) argued that seeing as the considered distinction between man and beast at the time the poem was written was simply man's bipedalism, the given description of Grendel being man-like does not necessarily imply that Grendel is meant to be humanoid, going as far as stating that Grendel could easily have been a bipedal dragon.
Other scholars such as Kuhn (1979) have questioned a monstrous description, stating:
There are five disputed instances of āglǣca [three of which are in Beowulf] 649, 1269, 1512...In the first...the referent can be either Beowulf or Grendel. If the poet and his audience felt the word to have two meanings, 'monster,' and 'hero,' the ambiguity would be troublesome; but if by āglǣca they understood a 'fighter,' the ambiguity would be of little consequence, for battle was destined for both Beowulf and Grendel and both were fierce fighters (216–7).
O'Keefe has suggested that Grendel resembles a Berserker, because of numerous associations that seem to point to this possibility.

Describe the character Grendel from Beowulf?

outcast - he wasn't part of society

monster, murderer - he was killing and eating people

descendant of Cain - (Cain was a murderer too)

light sleeper, irritable, angry - he attacked the hall after being disturbed by noisy drunkards

fighter - his long battle with Beowulf

possibly motivated by greed & revengeful - that scene where sits in the abandoned hall unable to approach the protected throne

protected, cared for - by his mother; who seeked revenge for his death

What images describing grendel in Beowulf might associate him with death or darkness?

Grendel was described in many ways: troll, man, dragon, etc. You will have some room for poetic license. Grendel has been described by scholars as both a supernatural other and an ethnic other. From the point of reference of early law codes, Grendel and his mother were outcasts, outlaws, and people who by their very existence were a blight on the ordered life of society. He's a wild man, an outlaw, whose only companion is his mother and who must survive by means of theft, destruction and breech of law. Let your imagination run wild!