The Meaningless Life of Grendel in John Gardner's Grendel

In John Gardner's novel "Glendell", Glendale's meaningless life "People say that what we are pursuing is the meaning of life, which is what we really want I think there is no life experience. ... "Joseph Campbell wrote this comment looking for meanings common to everyone's life. His remarks suggest that we are finding a higher spark than we all want to live or die. It is the satisfaction of the goal, not the emptiness of our living activities.

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. - According to Dictionary.com, sympathy can be defined as "a fact or power that shares others' feelings, especially sadness or trouble, sympathy, compassion, sympathy." (Dictionary.reference.com/browse/Sympathy) This definition and information provided after reading, translated by Burton Raffel, Beowulf

In John Gardner 's novel "Glendel" people in Grundel' s meaningless life say that what we want is simply the meaning of life, I think that this is not what we really want. We seem to tend to find a higher spark than we all want to live or die; Do we look for some important equations by Grendel Evil or Victim to Circumstance? Grendel's epic, Gradel Glendell from a swamp Although the character of Glendell is only a part of Beowulf's story, Glendell is one of the important messages about humanity in sentences Wu Fu, Glendell is known as "monster" I will.

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