Comparison between Beowulf and Grendel which is most accurate is In the poem, Grendel seems like a heartless monster, but in the novel, he is emotionally complex.
Grendel is portrayed as the pure evil in the poem Beowulf. He is a pure evil by killing his loved ones and bring bad things and portrays him s someone who needs to be killed. In Grendel, a novel by John Gardner, the monster is shown emotionally complex by bringing good through his evil actions, for instance, his poetry and art. We figure out through the characteristics of Grendel that he has a problem with the place he is in and with the universe. He had constructed his own theory of life, everything is the product of own perception and that he exists alone until he encountered Beowulf. Grendel portray itself as an evil to make us understand that how we take things for granted like what is our purpose? who we are? whether we are on the right path? Hence, we tend to perform according to the society about what it feels to be good. Hence, we defy our own recognition and creates a monster within us.
Beowulf is written from the perspective of the Danes and shows Grendel as a monster. In the above poem, Grendel seems like he is a monster or dangerous person, but on the other hand in novel his behavior is emotionally complex."
Therefore, Correct option is C.
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