Grendel Vs. Grendel In the epic poem Beowulf, Grendel is seen as pure evil and nothing more. He brings bad things and he kills loved ones. The epic poem just shows him as a monster who needs to be killed. In John Gardner’s novel, Grendel, the monster is showed as bringing good things through his evil, like art and poetry. Grendel is also depressed and confused. He is confused about how he should view life. In the end it doesn’t matter because he is still confused and the humans kill him. Grendel, as shown in John Gardner’s novel, is a story of the struggle of good versus evil. John Gardner shows that neither good can not exist without evil. Just