The face of CAIN

I, Grendel, am one of the three monsters in the epic poem Beowulf. My character represents Cain (devil or evil). I have the appearance of a monster, but have human emotions and feelings. I feel like an outcast due to this monster-like appearance. I have been forced out of human society and live in the swampland. I am very jealous of the human society. I want badly to be accepted in human society. My main purpose in life is revenge on the human society, especially he Danes.

King Hrothgar is the leader of the Dane people. He wants his people to like him so he builds a great mead-hall where his soldiers can meet and eat. The noise from the gatherings makes me furious and I want more revenge than before. I am getting my revenge by killing the Dane soldiers in their sleep. I attack the Danes every night, killing a handful of of them each day. The Danes live in fear of ME and King Hrothgar feels they are unhappy with him.

The news of my attacks and the unhappy Danes is sweeping the land. I hear that, Beowulf, a young soldier of the Geats, has heard of me and has traveled to Denmark with a small company of the Geats best soldiers to save the Danes.

I (the editor) feel that King Hrothgar should have done something after the first couple of attacks against his people. He should not have let the killings go on as long as they did.