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Similarities Between Beowulf And Grinch

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Both conveying a bitter person’s revenge on an innocent society, Grendel’s first attack on Heorot in Beowulf is similar to the beginning of How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Dr. Seuss and the poet of Beowulf depict in their literary work’s an outsider whose hatred for the people is fueled by their separation from that society. By further elaborating Grendel’s disconnection from Heorot, the poem describes that the character, “had dwelt for a time / in misery among the banished monsters”, which can be compared to the Grinch’s isolated home away from Whoville (lines 104 - 105). Feeling the need to take from a society that is overall in a better state, greed seems to be the influential factor behind the wrongdoers’ crimes. Clearly, the Grinch's
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