Comparison of Grendel of Beowulf to the Cyclops of The Odyss

These monsters were the very foundation to your living evil villain off of your favorite cartoon show to the bad guys off of James Bond. Additionally, the two are simple-minded creatures, allowing only their brute strength to define who they really are. The two monsters differ greatly for the Cyclops doesn’t kill as voraciously as Grendel. Monsters such as the Cyclops from The Odyssey and Grendel from Beowulf have provided the foundation of today’s monsters. e we can compare and contrast are the Cyclops from the epic poem The Odyssey and Grendel from Beowulf. Acting as the primordial soup, these two monsters share one overall and undermining characteristic, they were spawned from evil to promote evil. Also, Grendel seemingly as more anger built up against the people in the book in comparison to the Cyclops who is provoked by Odyseus.

Overall, monsters have had a profound effect upon are ideals and shaping our childhoods.

Other significant characteristics include the their pleasure in terrifying and eating men. These two monsters have scared and terrified our ancient elders to only leave us with ghastly expression of “huh?”. And indeed the two contrast upon their basic ideals and present settings. As seen in The Odyssey the Cyclops eats a few of Odyseus’s men with wine.