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GRENDEL & FRANKENSTEIN
AN ANALYSIS OF THE TWO "MONSTERS" AND THEIR SUPERIORITY TO MANKIND

GRENDEL & FRANKENSTEIN
AN ANALYSIS OF THE TWO "MONSTERS" AND THEIR SUPERIORITY TO MANKIND In
the desert
I saw a creature, naked, bestial,
Who, squatting upon the ground,
Held his heart in his hands,
And ate of it.

I said, "Is it good friend?"
"It is bitter-bitter," he answered;
"But I like it
Because it is bitter
And because it is my heart."
-Stephen Crane
This reflects how both Grendel and Frankenstein must have felt during
their lonely lives. "Seeking friends, the fiends found enemies; seeking
hope, they found hate"(Neilson back page). The monsters simply want to
live as the rest of us live. But, in our prejudice of their kind, we
banish them from our elite society. Who gave society......

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Approximate Pages: 12 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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