“The Beasts” The beast in the novel Grendel does not stray to far away from the monster in the book Frankenstein. These two creatures are both misunderstood which makes them do what they do, while they are just trying to fit in. The two monsters both handle rejecting and defeat very differently. In the novel Grendel, Grendel sees defeat as a weakness and he will not own to be defeated by the mighty Beowulf in their fight as far as saying : “If you win, it’s by mindless chance, first you tricked me and then I slipped; Accident” pg 171 which Grendel see’s Beowulf won just by luck. However, for Frankenstein’s monster takes loss/rejection much more humbly as in the novel when he is trying to win over the affection of the DeLacey’s and is rejected and beaten, the monster just leaves the people to be even though he says in page 115 : “I could have torn him limb from libs, as lion rends the antelope, but my heart sank within me as with bitter sickness, and I refrained.”. The two monsters see defeat as two ways, Grendel does not accept it even though he was bested while Frankenstein’s monster knows that all …show more content…
Grendel growing up as the only one of his kind, found it very hard to be loved which contributed to his loneliness : “ Why can’t I have someone to talk to? I said, the stars said nothing, but I pretended to ignore the ruleness” pg 53 being lonely would attest to all his wrongdoings and why he had so much hatred towards everyone and everything. While Frankenstein’s monster after having been alone for so long only longed affection and love from anything or anybody : “You must create a female for me, with whom I can live in the interchange of those sympathies necessary for my being “ pg 125. The monster would ask for this creation so he would have a reason to live as he saw himself as unlovable to other beings. Grendel and Frankenstein were both just seeking what we are born on this earth wanting