I believe that Grendel is a misunderstood creature. In my opinion Grendel isn't a real monster. I believe that people turned him into a demon because that would make them look like innocent threatened people in need of a brave hero to rescue them. Just because Grendel killed a lot of people doesn't make him a monster. It makes him a murderer but not a monster. Beowulf killed a lot of creatures and people even, but he's not a monster, he's a hero. Grendel might have had good reasons of why he killed the people. He was mistreated by them in the first place. Was turned into an outcast, and bragged about killing the rest of his people. They tormented him for many years and Grendel snapped. He turned crazy. I can bet he wasn't a mean or bad creature, but a person can only take so much and Grendel took in plenty of abuses. All he could do was get revenge. To Grendel, the monsters were probably everyone else. I really do feel sorry for Grendel. The pushed him away to darkness into a cave in the swamp. No, Grendel was not a monster. He was treated like one and he had all right to take revenge. I bet that if he was treated nice and accepted, no matter how he looked like, then he would have been very nice and nothing would have happened and no one would have died. That is why I strongly think that poor Grendel isn't a monster.
