Anaylsis of Grendel by John Gardner

Most writers occasionally use their character to guide their personal view they want to emphasize to the audience. In John Gardner 's novel "Glendell", Gardner used Grundell as an agent to draw his views on the evil world of human beings and its position in outer space. In addition to using Glendell as a carrier, Gardner uses his dragon as another source of information to express his views to people around the world. Gardner can be regarded as an isolated person away from the feelings of others; Glendell and Gardner can closely relate as Gardner is reflected in Grundel in more dimensions.

John Gardner 's Grundel is a revised heroic epic Beowulf, but the view changed. Beowulf 's opponent and Gardner' s work - Glendell 's nominal features, Glendell' s opinion. In Glendell, Gardner is personalizing Grundel by emphasizing the similarity between Glendell's life and human life. Through Godner 's reflection on Glendell' s human emotions, human development, and human faults, this seemingly opposite odd role was understood and became "human". Glendale expresses human emotions and features in various ways.

In Glendell of John Gardner, he used Glendell as a truly unique character. Gardner depicts Grendel as a misunderstood, confused but complex creature. A person who is sexually raise. I think he drew like this, Gardner shows that each story has two aspects. This links him to the reader. Glendell is terrible, but not barbarous. Grendel is a character that you can learn, think, feel emotion, and communicate. It is his curiosity that individuals attract me to Glendell. Readers can contact Glendale in various ways. He knew his behavior was cruel, but I wondered why he was persistent. Grendel fought with Danes which was "the 12th year of his foolish war" (5). Glendell knew that his war with Dane was a cycle involving murder, but he continued. He knows what he is doing is stupid (5)

John Gardner represents Glendell as an abandoned prototype. The author of Beowulf depicts Grendel as a pure monster, and compared with John Gardner, Grendel is not a barbaric monster but a wise person with human characteristics and features. In a traditional story, Glendell is portrayed as a bloody devil by the greedy animal instinct. Grendel is explained as a smart existence. Glendell and Ryan can compare with "Mouse and Man". Both roles have alienation, and with the desire to fit in. Grendel 's book, readers can see the opposite side of Glendell. In Beowulf, Glendell is considered an enemy and evil one. In Beowulf, Glendell is scary and dislikes. After reading Beowulf, the reader saw Grendel through the eyes of the victim he was afraid of. King