Post by rileyhatfield on Aug 29, 2013 20:44:15 GMT
I was reading a reply and it sparked a question in my head about whether or not Grendel became the cold-blooded monster he is so famously known to be because of a collection of instances in his life and then one major trigger point. I found that Grendel had felt remorse for the people he had killed before the trigger point, and then once it happened, a switch was flipped in his mind and he just completely lost it. Almost as if there was a build-up of things happening and then BOOM, the one straw that broke the camel's back (so to speak). Some examples of instances are:
Grendel having been abandoned by his mother and not having a father, which caused him to have to fend for himself,
and having to watch the humans he envied every day live a life that he wants to have.
The trigger point that I found was when Grendel was listening to the Shaper's harp and song, and he's crying realizing that he wants to make peace with these people, (51). He staggers out and cries out for "Mercy! Peace!" (51). But all they do is attack him. I believe that when Grendel realized that the people he so wanted to be friends with 'betrayed' him in a way, that was the last straw and he started to look at them in only murderous ways. "Let them wander the fogroads of Hell," (53).
So my question is, was Grendel's whole life leading up to one moment where his monstrous and murderous ways were fully triggered? Was that moment the specific trigger point in his brain or was there another one? Was there a trigger point at all?
Grendel having been abandoned by his mother and not having a father, which caused him to have to fend for himself,
and having to watch the humans he envied every day live a life that he wants to have.
The trigger point that I found was when Grendel was listening to the Shaper's harp and song, and he's crying realizing that he wants to make peace with these people, (51). He staggers out and cries out for "Mercy! Peace!" (51). But all they do is attack him. I believe that when Grendel realized that the people he so wanted to be friends with 'betrayed' him in a way, that was the last straw and he started to look at them in only murderous ways. "Let them wander the fogroads of Hell," (53).
So my question is, was Grendel's whole life leading up to one moment where his monstrous and murderous ways were fully triggered? Was that moment the specific trigger point in his brain or was there another one? Was there a trigger point at all?
