What is Grendel’s attitude toward
language? How does it change throughout the novel? Begin marking your novel as
we discuss it in class with a critical lens to answer this journal topic.
In
the beginning of the novel, Grendel is excited by man and by language. He is
eager to experiment with different literary styles in his narration. He tries
writing in different formatting, writing in different peoples’ voices, and
narrating it as if it were an epic. As Grendel rows older and wiser, he
realizes the world is not as he thought it was, or not as he wants it to be. He
gets mad with man and the world in general and slips into a sort of depression.
As this occurs, Grendel’s language and use of language gets more and more
straightforward. He goes back to concepts similarly used in the beginning, and even
his last sentence he utters is grammatically incorrect.
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