Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Beowulf: Journal 5



Gardner made the decision to use Grendel as a narrator because he wants the readers to see Grendel as more than just “the bad guy.

Gardner’s Grendel can be seen as a more sophisticated monster. During his first years of raiding, Grendel does not destroy the Danes in one day. Instead, Grendel destroys a few humans every month. If he were to destroy the Danes in one day, he would have no purpose. Also, Grendel expanded on the human language. Meaning, he does not talk like The Hulk, but as a normal human being.  For example, in Chapter 7-12, Grendel used advanced sentence structure. He uses italics, play text structure, poetry, and parentheses to experiment with the human language.
Grendel’s status as a monster affects the reader by changing their thoughts on him.” From Beowulf, readers will only see Grendel as a savage beast with only killing in his mind. However, Gardner’s Grendel is more human-like and has real emotions.

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