Grendel In the beginning was the Word and the Word was Grendel, and the Word was with Grendel. He was young, curious and naive. Having no companionship, Grendel was drawn towards the strange humans. he, however, was not evil. After his encounter with the bull, he was a child no more, “I understand that the world was, a mechanical chaos of casual, enmity on which we stupidly impose our hopes and fears.” p22. with each human encounter, Grendel became more monstrous. thou, even in his final pages, was
Tolkien’s academic background in the 1930’s included a series of lectures about Beowulf, and he became very well known for them. According to Colin Duriez (author of J.R.R. Tolkien: The Making of a Legend), undergraduate and postgraduate students were entertained and influenced by Tolkien’s reading of Beowulf. According to a letter sent to Tolkien in his later years, “the voice was the voice of Gandolf” (Duriez 135). Tolkien was able to communicate Beowulf in a way that made a profound impact
fish he caught and cleaned earlier that day. Cash completes the coffin just before dawn and Vardaman is uneasy about the fact that his mother is shut inside a box. Addie and Anse’s daughter, Dewey Dell, has had a recent night of passion with a local farmhand named Lafe and has become pregnant. She is so preoccupied by her current situation that the fact that her mother has died barely registers in her