What is a Monster? Are We Monsters? Are Humans Monsters?

When we become avaricious of our friends belongings, vengeful toward those who hate, or selfish when we have plenty. Monsters strike fear within our hearts because they atomic number 18 giant, frightful, ugly and difficult beings. Humans strike fear in their peers because of their vengeance, race or politics.In Beowulf, readers argon exposed to these addicts who ar uncontrollable finished the ways that they fight each other. By analyzing Beowulf, the concept of monstrosity is parallel to almost flaws of humanity. Although Beowulf is seen a deviant God-sent savior by the people of Heorot and Hrothgar, he is not exempt from the equivalence of human-centered flaws in the raw(a) serviceman.Through the use of many parallels between the characters of Beowulf representing monsters and the natural being humans, the reader is leave questioning what it is to be a gun and what it is to be a monster. The allegory uses symbolism such as supernaturalism as the model to create specif ic personas for the characters in Beowulf that parallel humans. In this paper, I depart discuss the ways in which Grendel, Grendels Mother and Beowulf argon parallel to humans in the natural world by looking at the ways in which monsters and humans argon similar.The epic poem, Beowulf, describes each of the monsters to be supernatural except Grendel and his let who are understood to not be supernatural. He is one of third monsters in the story that is ornamented with monstrous traits such as heathen talons, terrible spikes (Beowulf 987).Although he is described with these monstrous features, it is humanistic and turned on(p) instinct that propel his actions. For example, in the beginning of the story, Grendel is angered by the joyous jubilance of the men of Heorot (Danes), crawls out of his resistor swamp and creates a deathly disturbance. This ambiguous monstrosity gives mixed views of the role of humans and monsters, allowing for convergingping representations.He lives und erground with his mother that is recognized by readers as the unnatural world-living in swamps and darkness. The grumpy Grendel attacks the Hall because it harrowed him to hear the joyful din loud in the hall (87-105). He is grasping of Hrothgar and his people because they live in civilization-unlike Grendel-who lives in isolation. Words like harrowing, misery (105), unholy creature, and ravenous (120-121) are all used in the beginning of the story which alludes readers that Grendel is monstrous and envious of the Danes.The human characteristic Grendel is represent in the story is envy. He wants to fit in with the Danes precisely since he is a Cain (who kills kin) he is unable to. His physical form confuses readers in terms of categorizing him as man or beast. He has many savage attributes, a grotesque and monstrous appearance such as beast (425), heathen talons and terrible spikes (985), but his actions and emotions prove otherwise. When Grendel is gravely injured from the bat tle with Beowulf at the Hall, he is doomed to die in his underground home.When Beowulf describes the win over Grendel, he states, death is not an easy thing to escape-try it who will-but compelled necessity all must come to that place set aside for soul-bearers, children of men, dwellers on earth (1012). This further blurs the line between natural world humans and monsters because of the vernacular Beowulf chooses, earth dwellers, children of men. These words with specific intent towards Grendel, can overlap with descriptions of death towards humans in the natural world that death is hard to escape.Grendels mother in the story is relatable to ein truth mother in the natural world. Her intent to avenge her sons death (Grendel) to kill Beowulf is a very similar instinct mothers have in the natural world humans feel remorse for the bolshy of their love ones. She symbolizes the natural quality of revenge.Grendels mother comes into play and described as, a womans warfare, is less than an armed mans when a bloodstained blade, its edges strong, hammer-forged sword, slices through the boar-image on a helmet opposite (1283). The line, a womans warfare, is than an armed man to describe Grendels mother as weak is a direct parallel to mothers in the natural world. In todays world, people turn in that women are weak and less harmful than a man.In the story, the men in the hall are not afraid of her because she is a woman. Even though she is a mother, a female, to a weak, emotional monster (Grendel), she can still be violent and dangerous to others. This parallels mothers in the natural world. They can be terrifying when you make them mad. Grendels mother is also ornamented with monstrous descriptions, her hostile claws, that she-wolf of the sea swam to the bottom (1505). This puzzles the reader when nerve-wracking to categorize Grendels mother as (wo)man or beast.Along with Grendels monstrosity and his mothers, Beowulfs humanity is called into question. His call for at tack and killing Grendel is only for the fame he receives from the men of Heorot, he trusted his strength, the might of his handgrip-as a man should do if by his warfare he thinks to win long-lasting praise he cares nothing for his life (1535).In this scene, the reader sees how he possess supernatural qualities of abnormal strength. This is the epitome of so many men in the natural world. men are greedy for praise to impress a woman they like. The description of Beowulf hither can again confuse the reader as to what to categorize him as, man or beast. Men try to be heroic when a tragedy happens most of the time to gain praise from the public. This is what Beowulf does in the story, to be the hero by stopping the attack on Heorot by Grendel.Beowulf is the example of the tragic hero in the story. He comes from being kn deliver as nothing but an ugly strong monster to a praised monster who killed the bad guy. He has many animal attributes and a monstrous appearance, but he seems to be guided by vague human emotions and impulses. For example, the impulse to kill Grendel for eminence and fame is a rueful killing act, Beowulf uses it as adrenaline to keep killing and attacking the beasts who harm Heorot.These different monstrous personalities are seen in the natural human world which need to be addressed today when reading and exploring ones own life. Humans are monsters too. Grendel is portrayed as the man who takes the bus to work every day and is envious of happiness in peoples life-maybe someone with depression.Grendels mother is portrayed as everyones mother who wants revenge for a loved ones death and Beowulf is the greedy white American who wants to be praised for saving blacks in a burning house. from each one of these portrayals in the human world is scary to see and understand. But it is all real.Concepts of monstrosity, heroism, and supernaturalism in Beowulf are complex due to the parallelisms between humanity and the monsters in the story. It is eas y for readers to neglect the looming allusions on humanity that Beowulf offers through its use of subtle comparison. The ambiguity of monster and hero are intermixed in both the story and world of common man.Beowulf reminds readers to question the flaws and norms in humanity and its longing labels. We must yearn to understand human want before asking and claiming self-righteous glory. The difference between Grendels mother and Beowulf is that his mother was avenging the death of her son and Beowulf kills for glory and fame. Humans are monsters.