ABSTRACT
Women with power are shown to use it to abuse and control, while the traditional nurturers, here, those who serve you-pie, are considered exemplary. For Chad Nance, the story transcends regional concerns, offering a contemporary political allegory: Lane's take on the saga was clearly written in a post 9-11 world where our nation's quest for righteous vengeance led us into a crusade across the ocean with the vast of the Islamic world. A soldier who had been gravely injured, Grendel becomes the subject of bioengineering and technological body alteration. The agenda of the villain orchestrating the murders is to sully the public's faith in trusted authorities, but his larger plan is to demonstrate how our reliance on technology-for entertainment, information, and even health care-can be manipulated, blurring reality and fiction, and in the process controlling our behavior.
