Some say the human race is in control of one’s path. People choose the doors they open and people choose the people they meet. Some may even say coincidence exists only as a tease to what luck would feel like if one didn’t exist in complete free will. However, others say fate is the determinant to one’s very self. A higher being controls one’s every move or one’s every outcome. People’s futures are an already existing map, forever being created in the realm of yesterday. The argument between both fate and freewill has followed mankind even through oral ancient tales and has continued to remain a mystery to humanity to this day. One big character people debate fate and freewill towards is Grendel, whom can be found in the stories Beowulf and …show more content…
He recognizes his actions, and he also recognizes his melancholy. Throughout the text, his perspective on life follows rhetoric of a being tired of existing and of being sickened by God. Although he describes his actions as mechanical and stale in the beginning, the fact he can even describe his actions in that manner proves he is very aware of his behavior. Grendel is stuck on a loop of habit, which has put him into a state of boredom and It isn’t until the threat of Beowulf arises when his excitement appearance He hears of his new rival and states “I am mad with joy...Strangers have come and it's a whole new game.”( Gardner 15) His titillation with the appearance of a new competitor, shows the readers that he truly does enjoy killing and views his actions as a game. Someone, according to free will, has the ability to feel excitement and control over one’s action, which he clearly has. If fate was his anchor then Beowulf’s appearance would have made him felt nothing. Also, Beowulf refuses to eat deer. He has a preference for eating cows and humans and has even stated how he dislikes deer less than to the other counterparts. In Chapter 1, he proclaims “it is a matter of fact I have never killed a deer in all my life, and never will.” (Gardner 8) If God truly cursed him to live out a life of carnivorous uncontrollable destruction, he would lack the ability to choose whom and what he