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Grendel Grendel is a very intelligent monster with very mean characteristics. In the story Beowulf, Grendel could walk into a room and kill hundreds of people at a time. He was a very vicious and horrible monster. Grendel sought acceptance, and because he did not receive it he became a cave dwelling carnivorous, creature. In the poem Beowulf, Grendel is a miserable and lonely monster, which has a very grotesque appearance, but in reality is …

…be a vicious monster. Alas, mankind could not even consummate the expectations of a forsaken, cave-dwelling creature whose only hope was acceptance from society. Grendel, whose only crime was being deviant, therefore, pledged to crush not humankind, but the hurtful elements of society. And thus when the human race fabricated war on Grendel, a being who by all rights was just as bright and even more powerful than the normal man, the monster responded correspondingly.