was an accident that Beowulf killed him. He said, “He penetrated no mysteries. He was lucky. If I’d known he was awake, if I’d known there was blood on the floor when I gave him a kick…”(Gardner, 172). Grendel felt as though it was an accident that Beowulf was able to kill him.“Beowulf “ and “Grendel” are very different, but are in fact based on the same epic; the different points of view allow the stories to change from its original version to create two different stories. Although both stories follow a similar plot, they do come off as different. An outsider tells one, and the other is told from Grendel’s point of view. Some aspects in “Grendel” were emphasized and were barely mentioned in “Beowulf”, this is because Grendel is looking at it from himself. We could never get the actual picture of Grendel’s relationship with his mom, through another person’s eyes. The Anglo Saxon world was very different from that of today. In medieval time there was much devotion to the king, fighting, and wars. In today’s society we do not even have a king nor would we respect him enough to do good deeds for him. “Grendel” and “Beowulf” are two very good stories that are based on the same epic but are in fact there own stories....
