The archetype of the epic hero in Beowulf is that he has courage, powerful, strong brave, and unrelentless. Beowulf has abilities and talent that are like god like. He is the warrior that everybody wants to be and the enemy that nobody wants to face. The society saw him as their hero who would protect them; he is like the Hercules of their time. He had to defend his society from the demon grenade. Grendal has made havoc on the mead-hall for 12 yrs because of what is inside of it. So Beowulf got the job done because that is what a true hero does for his people. I feel like the hero's back then was savage and the ones now stand for justice like for the country.
They did whatever it took to kill their enemy while you just have them go to jail now. Like superman saves lives but he does not kill anyone. Batman is the same way; they just put them in jail. But back then they wanted blood and mutilation. They both have the same ideas of being a hero but one is tougher and the other is more cleaned up fighting. They have the same type of powers and stuff. The powers they have are supernatural. Like He-man strength, courage of a lion, and the weight of the world. Yet they still get the job done. If I was one of those I would want to be half Beowulf and my other have superman. But they both are humble which makes them better than any other hero. Some are very cocky and make the people of the town feel bad but neither of these heroes is those types of guys. We went over in class was vocabulary words. Some of the words I didn’t understand because we hardly use that text these days. But you helped us as in the class with understand those words because we used the text when we did this.
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