Based on the book Grendel and literary analysis’, Grendel shows and grows through the philosophies existentialism, skepticism, and nihilism.
TOPIC SENTENCE Gardner wrote, “‘Dragons don’t mess with your piddling free will. Pah! Listen to me, boy.” (pg 63) This quote is part of the long conversation that Dragon and Grendel have about free will and the meaning of life. Grendel only knows what people tell him and what he observes so by Dragon telling Grendel to not mess with his free will stands out to him exceptionally and he finds a new way to look at life. "My knowledge of the future does not cause the future. It merely sees it, exactly as creatures at your low level recall things past. And even if, say, I interfere—burn up somebody's meadhall, for instance, whether because I just feel like it or because some supplicant asked me to—even then I do not change the future, I merely do what I saw from the…show more content… Dragon is talking to Grendel about life and everything that comes with it. Grendel is confused on the word molecule because he has never heard that before and only learns it from the Dragon. Grendel’s actions against the men he hates are carried out intermittently; the monster spends much of his time merely watching the humans and musing on the foibles of mankind. The people that Grendel observes are hypocrites and not very good people. Grendel has to observe what happens from afar and then make assumptions and conclusions based on what he has observed. “Because this is a first-person novel, the reader’s impression of the other characters is colored by the descriptions offered by Grendel.” Grendel is a skeptical being because he witnesses many many things and has no one to talk to about it. Since Grendel’s mother cannot talk to him he has to shape everything based on what the other characters do and
