After all, the real problem with Grendel is not that he kills people. Pretty much everyone in this story kills people. The problem with Grendel is that he seems to kill for fun and he won't pay the death-price : the treasure that he should give to the Danes to make reparations for the lives that he has taken. So, it's possible to see Grendel, not as a fantastic monster, but as a monstrous human warrior with a pathological love for violence.
Or, to spin it another way, you can read Grendel as a vilification of "the other," a demonic representation of someone outside the tribe. Of course, since he feeds on the corpses of his victims, that makes him a cannibal. But maybe that just adds to the chilling horror of it all. Parents Home Homeschool College Resources. Study Guide.
The ogre is vulnerable because Beowulf uses no weapons, and the hero has the strength of 30 men in his grip. Beowulf rips the monster's arm from its shoulder. Mortally wounded, Grendel flees to the swamp. The giant claw later hangs from Heorot's roof as a trophy. In many ways, Grendel is the most interesting character in the epic.
He is a mix of man and beast; his fury is based on very human feelings of resentment and jealousy. The novelist and Anglo-Saxon scholar John Gardner explores the inner conflicts of the character in his novel, Grendel, an intensely moving, funny, and perceptive book. Previous Wiglaf. Next Grendel's Mother. Removing book from your Reading List will also remove any bookmarked pages associated with this title. Are you sure you want to remove bookConfirmation and any corresponding bookmarks?
I may look into fixing this in the future. The idea for the Describing Words engine came when I was building the engine for Related Words it's like a thesaurus, but gives you a much broader set of related words, rather than just synonyms. While playing around with word vectors and the " HasProperty " API of conceptnet, I had a bit of fun trying to get the adjectives which commonly describe a word.
Eventually I realised that there's a much better way of doing this: parse books! Project Gutenberg was the initial corpus, but the parser got greedier and greedier and I ended up feeding it somewhere around gigabytes of text files - mostly fiction, including many contemporary works.
The parser simply looks through each book and pulls out the various descriptions of nouns. Hopefully it's more than just a novelty and some people will actually find it useful for their writing and brainstorming, but one neat little thing to try is to compare two nouns which are similar, but different in some significant way - for example, gender is interesting: " woman " versus " man " and " boy " versus " girl ". On an inital quick analysis it seems that authors of fiction are at least 4x more likely to describe women as opposed to men with beauty-related terms regarding their weight, features and general attractiveness.
In fact, "beautiful" is possibly the most widely used adjective for women in all of the world's literature, which is quite in line with the general unidimensional representation of women in many other media forms. If anyone wants to do further research into this, let me know and I can give you a lot more data for example, there are about different entries for "woman" - too many to show here.
The blueness of the results represents their relative frequency. You can hover over an item for a second and the frequency score should pop up.
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