Finding Humor In Grendel
The book Grendel by John Gardner is about a lonely, nihilistic beast that spends the story suffering through life and feeding its blood lust. Yes it is hilarious. If you don't think my first two sentences go together, then you didn't read Grendel. Despite the obvious drama and suffering that he story's main character, Grendel, goes through John Gardner finds a way to put comedy into his work. Gardner, however, very rarely uses this comedy as a form of comic relief to lighten the story, if anything this humor makes the story even darker by highlighting the ignorance of mankind and a nihilist's outlook on life.
Men's lack of intelligence is apparent from Grendel's first encounter with men. Though in some ways sad, when the men have Grendel's unconscious body and they think that the giant beast with human-like features is a tree fungus, and then a spirit, you can't help but laugh at how just plain dumb these men are. "The tall one said, It's a growth of some kind, that's my......
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