No New Tale to Tell

From reading the Pardoner's Tale, we realize that many people don't trust each other even though they act it. They might turn into backstabbers as time goes by and their greed grows. I do realize that money is usually one of the main reasons people have greed. Money is a useful thing to have. Many people don't have enough of it. Some people marry for money or status. Humans have a lot of pride, and they like to show off. Some try to pretend to be modest (the modest even like the attention), but on the inside is probably a bunch of pride swelling up. Some people don't even attempt to be modest and act incredibly conceited. For me, I'm incredibly proud of having my Nexus 4, which is probably the best phone ever that was created in 2012 (I'm saying this because the LG G2 seems amazing, but I love my Nexus 4 too much to admit it.) Love is probably another thing that people want, but probably don't get. That's where the Wife of Bath's Tale comes in. In her story, the knight ends up marrying a woman that he'd rather not marry, but realizes that he can only choose two things: beautiful and unfaithful or ugly and faithful. For some reason, I thought of Kim Kardasian while typing this. A decision many people don't like choosing is usually based around love. Some people are attracted to physical details, which is why they end up with a beautiful but unfaithful partner. I feel like females have always wanted some sort of dominance over males because the males have always been preferred over the females. Some mothers even go to certain extremes to kill their child if it turned out to be female! As the years go by, I find that females are slowly receiving more recognition. I don't know whether or not it's a good thing, but at least the females are getting to state their opinion.

Truth

I have a very biased view of this story. I think that Grendel is an innocent thing (since I'm still not sure about what creature he is) but slowly turns out to become somewhat evil because of his killing sprees. He is clearly misunderstood, and listening to the Shaper's lyrics doesn't really help him. He is convinced that he is a villain because he is blood related to Cain. This story is pretty much about how two sides completely misunderstand each other and how they try to kill each other to resolve it. Since I haven't finished the story yet, I can't say for sure whether or not who is doing the "right" thing. I think that I will finish the book thinking that they were both wrong in their doings and that it all ended terribly. The part where Grendel screams "Friend!" at the men made me incredibly sad. Honestly, I would probably have acted the same way as the men. I don't understand many thick accents, and I'm pretty sure Grendel had a thick accent, or at least a completely different dialect. I would have freaked out and tried to attack him. Grendel sure had an interesting entrance to the scene. It was quite amusing.

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Modern Day Grendel

Whenever I think of Grendel, I think of him as a person more than a monster. I kind of believe that something has happened in his past that has made him become the person he is. Sure, he can be from Cain's bloodline, but it still doesn't mean that he can't be good.
Someone that reminds me of Grendel is Accelerator from the Toaru Kagaku no Railgun and the Toaru Majutsu no Index series (If you plan on watching the anime, don't read any further. I am going to put so many spoilers. You should watch it anyways.) He was first seen as one of the main antagonists, but slowly became one of the protagonists. Accelerator was introduced as the highest level 5 esper in Academy City, a place where mainly students live so they can improve their Psychic abilities. The purpose of Academy City was to create a level 6 esper. There was an experiment that involved killing exactly 20,000 level 3 clones of Misaka Mikoto, who is one of the level 5 espers (There are only 7 in the entire city.) He was able to destroy a majority of them until he was defeated by Touma, the main protagonist of the Toaru Majutsu no Index series. Accelerator then has some sort of mental breakdown. As he later finds out that they are trying to make the clones stronger in level so he can level up to 6 more quickly, he meets Last Order, who is considered a failure and is the weakest of the clones. He couldn't kill her and instead protected her until the very end. He ends up getting shot in the head trying to protect Last Order, making his esper abilities rely on a battery in order to fight. His past was soon revealed. He was taken to Academy City at a very young age and was discovered to have incredibly extraordinary powers. Due to this, many people have feared him and even tried to kill him. Since he was really strong as a child, he was experimented on by many scientists. He soon turned into a cruel sadist. When he meets Last Order, she claimed that he was trying to warn all of the other clones (they get smarter and smarter as he kills each clone because their brains synchronize with each other) that he was going to kill them and that they better get away. Accelerator even goes to say that "I’m the Strongest Level 5, I don’t need brats worrying about me. Listen, even if someone is suffering before you, the kind of person that can take up arms without hesitation to shoot down the villain is no better than a villain himself. The kind that doesn't care about others, doesn't give 2nd chances; someone that kills if given a reason, is definitely not a hero. You don’t have to become that kind of person. That’s my specialty. Only I have to go through that," which goes to say that he really wasn't a bad person from the beginning, but was pretty much created. I think the same goes for Grendel, but since we haven't read the story yet, I can't say for sure.