Grendel's Attitude towards Language

Grendel has a difficult to understand relationship with language. In the beginning of the novel Grendel embraces language. He makes complicated literary styles, such as arranging text in different forms, writing in others' voices, and writing as if this were an epic. As the story goes on he realizes the world around him is not as he would wish it to be. He becomes frustrated with humans and the world in general, and sinks into his "cave". Grendel's speech becomes more and more simple until he cannot even make a grammatically proper last sentence.