Saturday, August 17, 2019
Mind and True Feelings Essay
In the book Grendel, the author made the decision to use the character Grendel as the narrator. He knew that the readers would understand more about Grendelââ¬â¢s feelings. To know the real Grendel, you need to read it from his point of view, not anyone elseââ¬â¢s. The story made more sense because it was written in stream of consciousness. Stream of consciousness means that the author writes down everything that he is thinking. In Grendel we got to read everything from his heart, his true feelings about everything. The story would have been really different if we hadnââ¬â¢t gotten to see who he was and what he was all about. Grendel from the book was a totally different Grendel from Beowulf. In Beowulf we see Grendel as an evil monster that wanted to kill everyone and had no feelings. But we know that he did have true feelings for people and for himself. ââ¬Å"My head achesâ⬠(page 13), is an example of something we would have never known by watching the movie. We also know that he cared deeply about his mother and other people. We also would have never known that he was actually very intelligent and could speak. ââ¬Å"I sobbed as if heartbrokenâ⬠(page 19). We know that he had a heart; a real monster wouldnââ¬â¢t have a heart. He was sad because he didnââ¬â¢t have the life that he wanted; everyone was happy but he wasnââ¬â¢t. With everything that we know about Grendel and his feelings is all stuff that we learned from the book, not from the movie. The movie basically told us the opposite of what was true about him. We would have never known this stuff if the author wouldnââ¬â¢t have written in the stream of consciousness. Grendel had many feelings that we did not know about in Beowulf that we learned about in the book. In the movie we got the idea that he was a horrible monster who didnââ¬â¢t care about anything or anyone. Beowulf told the story from the dans point of view not Grendelââ¬â¢s. So by John Gardner choosing to use stream of consciousness we really saw who Grendel was. Grendel seems way more human in the book rather than the movie. ââ¬Å"I laughed my ankle was numb; my leg was on fire to the hipâ⬠(page 21). Only a real human could feel pain and sorrow like that. Everyone hated him and wanted him dead because they thought he was such a horrible monster, but he couldnââ¬â¢t help it. He didnââ¬â¢t pick the way he looks; thatââ¬â¢s just how he was created. In the end, he was just in so much pain he didnââ¬â¢t know what to do with his life anymore. So thatââ¬â¢s why Iââ¬â¢m happy that the author choose this form of writing because we understood who he was and what he was. Not just some monster who wanted to kill everyone. If the Danes could have seen him like we did I think that that would have changed their whole look about him. Those are all the reasons why I think that the stream of consciousness was a way better form of writing rather than formal writing. This is also why I think that we see Grendel more human than monster and understood him better. I sympathize him more this way and feel sorry for him because everyone hated him for the way that he looked. I think the author choose this way because he knew that we would understand him more. Thatââ¬â¢s why if he would have chosen formal writing everything would have been more confusing and hard to understand.
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