'What is a Monster? Are We Monsters? Are Humans Monsters?\r'

'When we be scrape envious of our friends belongings, vengeful toward those who hate, or selfish when we have plenty. Monsters strike fear deep down our hearts beca drop they atomic number 18 giant, awful, ugly and boisterous beings. domain strike fear in their peers because of their vengeance, race or politics.\r\nIn Beowulf, contributors ar exposed to these goliaths who are uncontrollable through the ways that they fight each other. By analyzing Beowulf, the concept of monstrosity is correspond to some flaws of hu publicity. Although Beowulf is seen a deviant God-sent savior by the muckle of Heorot and Hrothgar, he is non exempt from the equivalence of humanist flaws in the lifelike dry land.\r\nThrough the use of many par all(prenominal)els between the characters of Beowulf representing monsters and the natural valet de chambre macrocosm, the reader is left speculative what it is to be a hero and what it is to be a monster. The story uses symbolism such as necro manticness as the model to create specific roles for the characters in Beowulf that parallel humans. In this paper, I will talk over the ways in which Grendel, Grendels Mother and Beowulf are parallel to humans in the natural world by looking at the ways in which monsters and humans are resembling.\r\nThe epic poem, Beowulf, describes each of the monsters to be supernatural except Grendel and his bewilder who are understood to not be supernatural. He is one of three monsters in the story that is orna manpowerted with monstrous traits such as â€Å" cultural talons, terrible spikes” (Beowulf 987).\r\nAlthough he is draw with these monstrous features, it is humanistic and emotional instinct that propel his actions. For example, in the spring of the story, Grendel is angered by the joyous celebration of the men of Heorot (Danes), crawls out of his underground swamp and creates a demolition interchangeable disturbance. This ambiguous monstrosity gives mixed views of the rol e of humans and monsters, allo succeedg for overlapping representations.\r\nHe lives underground with his mother that is recognise by readers as the unnatural world-living in swamps and darkness. The grouchy Grendel attacks the Hall because it â€Å"harrowed him to hear the joyful din cheesy in the hall” (87-105). He is envious of Hrothgar and his people because they live in civilization-unlike Grendel-who lives in isolation. Words like â€Å"harrowing,” â€Å"misery” (105), â€Å"unholy creature,” and â€Å"ravenous” (120-121) are all used in the beginning of the story which alludes readers that Grendel is monstrous and envious of the Danes.\r\nThe human characteristic Grendel is portraying in the story is envy. He wants to fit in with the Danes solely since he is a Cain (who kills kin) he is unable to. His somatic form confuses readers in terms of categorizing him as man or beast. He has many animal attributes, a grotesque and monstrous appe arance such as â€Å"beast” (425), â€Å"heathen talons” and â€Å"terrible spikes” (985), but his actions and emotions conjure otherwise. When Grendel is gravely injured from the battle with Beowulf at the Hall, he is doomed to die in his underground home.\r\nWhen Beowulf describes the win over Grendel, he states, â€Å"decease is not an thriving thing to escape- exertion it who will-but compelled necessity all must come to that place set aside for soul-bearers, children of men, dwellers on macrocosm…” (1012). This further blurs the line between natural world humans and monsters because of the vernacular Beowulf chooses, â€Å"earth dwellers”, â€Å"children of men”. These dustup with specific intent towards Grendel, tooshie overlap with descriptions of remnant towards humans in the natural world that death is hard to escape.\r\nGrendels mother in the story is relatable to every(prenominal) mother in the natural world. Her int ent to avenge her sons death (Grendel) to kill Beowulf is a very similar instinct mothers have in the natural world humans feel remorse for the loss of their love ones. She symbolizes the natural quality of revenge.\r\nGrendels mother comes into play and described as, â€Å"a womans warfare, is less than an armed mans when a bloodstained blade, its edges strong, hammer-forged sword, slices through the boar-image on a helmet opposite” (1283). The line, â€Å"a womans warfare, is than an armed man” to describe Grendels mother as weak is a direct parallel to mothers in the natural world. In todays world, people assume that women are weak and less harmful than a man.\r\nIn the story, the men in the hall are not afraid of her because she is a woman. Even though she is a mother, a female, to a â€Å"weak”, â€Å"emotional” monster (Grendel), she can still be violent and dodgy to others. This parallels mothers in the natural world. They can be frighten when you make them mad. Grendels mother is also ornamented with monstrous descriptions, â€Å"her opponent claws, that she-wolf of the sea swam to the bottom” (1505). This puzzles the reader when trying to categorise Grendels mother as (wo)man or â€Å"beast”.\r\n on with Grendels monstrosity and his mothers, Beowulfs humanity is called into question. His call for assail and cleanup spot Grendel is only for the fame he receives from the men of Heorot, â€Å"he trusted his strength, the might of his handgrip-as a man should do if by his warfare he thinks to win long-lasting encomium: he cares cypher for his life” (1535).\r\nIn this scene, the reader sees how he possess supernatural qualities of abnormal strength. This is the substitution class of so many men in the natural world. Men are greedy for praise to come upon a woman they like. The description of Beowulf here can again confuse the reader as to what to reason him as, man or â€Å"beast”. Men t ry to be heroic when a tragedy happens close of the time to gain praise from the public. This is what Beowulf does in the story, to be the hero by stopping the attack on Heorot by Grendel.\r\nBeowulf is the example of the â€Å"tragic hero” in the story. He comes from being known as nothing but an ugly strong monster to a praised monster who killed the bad guy. He has many animal attributes and a monstrous appearance, but he seems to be guided by vague human emotions and pulse rates. For example, the impulse to kill Grendel for glory and fame is a remorseful killing act, Beowulf uses it as adrenaline to keep killing and attacking the â€Å"beasts” who harm Heorot.\r\nThese different monstrous personalities are seen in the natural human world which need to be addressed today when reading and exploring ones own life. globe are monsters too. Grendel is portrayed as the man who takes the slew to work every day and is envious of enjoyment in peoples life-maybe someone with depression.\r\nGrendels mother is portrayed as everyones mother who wants revenge for a loved ones death and Beowulf is the greedy white American who wants to be praised for salve blacks in a burning house. Each of these portrayals in the human world is scary to see and understand. unless it is all real.\r\nConcepts of monstrosity, heroism, and supernaturalism in Beowulf are labyrinthian due to the parallelisms between humanity and the monsters in the story. It is swooning for readers to neglect the looming allusions on humanity that Beowulf offers through its use of subtle comparison. The ambiguity of â€Å"monster” and â€Å"hero” are intermixed in both the story and world of general man.\r\nBeowulf reminds readers to question the flaws and norms in humanity and its longing labels. We must yearn to understand human motivation out front asking and claiming self-righteous glory. The difference between Grendels mother and Beowulf is that his mother was aveng ing the death of her son and Beowulf kills for glory and fame. human are monsters.\r\n'