Beowulf Compare And Contrast Grendel And John Wayne

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“He awoke in the basement of Gacy’s home his body naked and pressed into a pillory like rack which held his arms and head. John Wayne Gacy a powerful, heavyset man was also naked, his fat, hairy belly sticking out obscenely. Gacy showed his victims various whips and instruments of torture along with number of strange looking sexual devices explaining lasciviously how he intended to use these implements on him. The assaults and torture went on for hours” (Nash 1247). A candidate that measures up to this disturbance would be the monster from Beowulf, Grendel. Grendel tortured and killed his victims brutally too showing no mercy like John Wayne. Grendel and John Wayne both shared a twisted comparison in the satisfaction of killing innocent men …show more content…

Grendel and John Wayne both were massive physically making it easy to overpower anyone who tried to fight back”. (Nash 1247). “John Wayne had had a certain type being tall, skinny men and Grendel only attacked Danes and Geats which were just male soldiers.” (McCormick 1). (Beowulf 44). “Their methods on killing were different approaches yet with the same skills. John Wayne Gacy would drug his victims then brutality rapes them torturing his victims with sex toys and various hitting weapons.” (Nash 1247). “Probably because he had a long record of homosexual abuse, sodomy and other acts of perversions in his early childhood.” (Nash 1246). “So throughout the horrific experience he would keep them awake, making them have to see all that was being done to them with full conscience and afterwards, finally killing them.” (Nash 1247). “His victims started from the early age of 9 years old through the mid-30s.” (Nash 1248). “The police found over more than 33 bodies that John Wayne had killed over his 12 year period”. (Nash 1248). “On the other hand the monster, Grendel from the book Beowulf had a thirst for killing he would viciously attack a mead hall where warriors stayed at when the darkness overcame at night”. (Beowulf 44). He wouldn’t abuse them sexually but he would use his long sharp claws and vigorous teeth to tear the warriors apart in pieces. Grendel traumatized the village …show more content…

Before justice came into place John Wayne had gotten away with his wrong doing his whole 12 years not counting small encounter with the police making it one pf the reasons for his move to Chicago. (Nash 1247). Until he attacked a 15 year old boy named Robert who had over protecting parents. That same night the police were contacted that he had been missing so they retraced Roberts’s steps which showed he had an encounter with John Wayne that night. The police have had some clues to make them suspicious of John Wayne so they began to investigate him. (Nash 1248). John Wayne, not use to the pressure of being observed shortly cracked allowing the cops to unravel his disgusting pleasures. Finding bodies in nearby rivers and mostly all in his crawl space in his house. (Nash 1248). He was shortly convicted to life in prison which he soon brought closure to many wounded family members by being put in death row and dyeing. (Lindsey 1). Nevertheless Grendel also got what he deserved as well. Grendel had no worries reason being he was the most feared and undefeated monster in Denmark. (Beowulf 44). Until the courageous warrior Beowulf heard of the tragedy that was happening. His warriors followed him to put an end to the horrible misery he was bringing upon the village. (Beowulf 46). Beowulf and his team set up a plan to trap Grendel once in for all. Succeeding in his trap Beowulf viciously attacked him not