Read the excerpt from Grendel. Thus I fled, ridiculous hairy creature torn apart by poetry—crawling, whimpering, streaming tears, across the world like a two-headed beast, like mixed-up lamb and kid at the tail of a baffled, indifferent ewe—and I gnashed my teeth and clutched the sides of my head as if to heal the split, but I couldn’t.

How is Grendel characterized in this excerpt?

as humorous and comical
as violent and dangerous
as upset and confused
as weak and sickly