This novel is mainly based on Grendel's self-destruction; this was most evident in the last five chapters. In the last chapters Grendel destroys himself, he realizes that a higher power already determines a person life and that the things that happen are accidental. Grendel ends up losing faith; he believes that he serves no purpose. During the second half of this novel, after he had encountered the dragon, Grendel becomes more and eviler until he has met his match. He does not die for love or passion or even freedom like most characters do in Anglo-Saxon literature. He dies simply, alone, and without courage or sadness.
             At the end of chapter seven Grendel once again was contemplating suicide. Grendel was tired of killing people, and he knew it was his nature to do so, he believed that ending his life would end his mourning. Even though Grendel turned into a savage beast after his encounter with the dragon he still mourned the deaths of the Danes he had killed. Grendel knows at this point that there is no hope for him to become good; he realizes that he was born into this and he has been corrupted by a pointless and brutal life. Grendel never had enough courage to kill himself only the courage to kill others. He seemed to stick to the one thing that brought joy into his heart, and that was watching the Danes suffer. The only thing that ever stopped him from killing was Queen Wealtheow, but this only lasted a couple of days.
             When Wealtheow was introduced into the novel,0 Grendel again reverted to a more primitive beast for a short while. In the early chapters when the Shaper was introduced Grendel felt that humans were capable of great beauty despite their usual horrid deeds. This is the way he felt with Wealtheow, who was introduced in chapter seven, Grendel viewed her as the perfect women; she was beautiful and pure. Grendel could relate with Wealtheow they were both alone and sad in their new home. Grendel seemed on...