Grendel Argument Essay Final Reflection

Throughout the creation of this paper, I learned the importance of audience and how, with an audience in mind, it can influence the tone and the connections you make within the paper. With audience, I learned more about using specific phrases or words and putting them into context specific for the audience. With my audience, I have also discovered how the variations of Grendel, whether in the poem, movie, novel or comic, can be related to some kind of hero or villain portrayed in the movies that we see today. For example, within my essay, I linked the portrayals of Grendel in the poem, movie and comic to that of Loki in the Norse myth. Loki is just a simple prankster in the myth and similarly, Grendel is only a simple monster that exists for Beowulf to defeat him. In addition, Grendel's hatred for hypocrisy can be related to the ideology of the Joker from The Dark Knight. In addition, I have learned more on MLA formatting and citing my sources, particularly manually inputting my sources. It's still hard to remember all the MLA formatting, but I think I better understand it, which helps me remember it more. With this argument essay, I have learned more about writing towards a particular audience, connections and MLA format.