Morally Ambiguous Character In 'Grendel' By John Gardner

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In John Gardner’s, Grendel, the main character, Grendel, is a morally ambiguous character. This is because although he does commit evil in killing the men, through his eyes he is doing good by riding the world of these men. Grendel chooses to kill many men in Herot which is view as immoral but according to Grendel this is his purpose and he is right by doing so. To the reader Grendel is morally ambiguous as we know the crimes he commits are wrong but in the end, the reader still is sympathetic towards Grendel. Grendel commits evil acts for the purpose of good deeds which is where the reader's sympathy becomes prevalent. Killing hundreds of thousands of men over the course of twelve winters is pure evil. If those hundreds of thousands of men

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