Thursday, September 5, 2013
The Modern Day Grendel
In the modern day, I think that the three teens from Oklahoma that gunned down Christopher Lane who was a 23 year old college baseball player. Even though these three teens aren't some evil demon they do share similarities to Grendel who killed for fun. Just like Grendel these teens killed Christopher Lane just for the fun of it because they were bored. In Beowulf the people in the mead-hall are having fun and singing and this makes Grendel mad enough to go kill them all. With these three guys the just saw Christopher Lane and targeted him after seeing him and from seeing him you would see that this guy seems like a fine good person who has a good life and these teens are bored and don't have that kind of content with their lives so it makes the seek the thrill of killing someone who obviously has a better life. Just like how Grendel who was an outcast and different had to suffer because of God and ended up finding a good feeling about killing people. Grendel felt good about taking the future away from people who lived a better life than him and these teens took the life of someone who had a bright future and probably lived a better life than them. Both Grendel and these teens have caused a lot grief and suffering to other people by their actions
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Do you think that these teens show a really good example of Grendel? or is it just the one side of him that is a ruthless killer? We don't know these kids' lives outside this incident so it would be harder to tell.
ReplyDeleteI think this is a great analogy because even though I don't know much about the incident, from what you wrote it seems as though the teens had no legitimate reason to kill the baseball player just like how Grendel had no good reason to kill. I don't think anyone will ever know for sure why the teens did what they did and with Grendel you never really understand why he kills either and its hard to tell what his alterior motives may be.
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