Grendel: Choosing Grendel's or Beowulf's side

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When looking at Grendel's point of view, it is easy to see that the image of Grendel the author portrays in Beowulf is entirely divergent. The example of the many feelings Grendel experiences mainly applies the use of both light and dark imagery. Grendel remarks that as a result of "the old Shaper, the sweetness of his harp, his cunning trickery" he wants to be saved, even if he "must be the outcast cursed by the rules of his hideous fable...
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When looking at Grendel's point of view, it is easy to see that the image of Grendel the author portrays in Beowulf is entirely divergent. The example of the many feelings Grendel experiences mainly applies the use of both light and dark imagery. Grendel remarks that as a result of "the old Shaper, the sweetness of his harp, his cunning trickery" he wants to be saved, even if he "must be the outcast cursed by the rules of his hideous fable...
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