Beowulf And Muggsy Bogues Analysis

Beowulf and Muggsy Bogues have little in common. They have completely different backgrounds, look completely different, and are separated by a time period of over one thousand years. If Beowulf and Muggsy were put in a ring together, Muggsy would obviously come up short. If Beowulf and Muggsy were put on a basketball court together, Muggsy would leave with an easy victory, and Beowulf would have much to explain to Unferth back in Denmark. At first glance, the journeys of these two men are incomparable. However, the quests of Beouwlf and Muggsy Bogues are comparable in their triumps over evil. Beowulf’s defeat over Grendel is similar to Muggsy Bogues’s journey to the NBA. Muggsy’s first challenges in the NBA can be compared to Beowulf’s fight against Grendel’s mom. Beowulf’s ultimate death at the hands of the dragon is analogous with Muggsy’s eventual fall from grace shortly after releasing his autobiography. Beowulf and Muggsy Bogues begin their eventual triumphs over evil in similar ways; while Beowulf wastes no time defeating the evil demon Grendel, Bogues …show more content…
Beowulf rightfully earns his heroic identity for defeating Grendel and his mother and keeping the Geats in Heorot safe; Muggsy becomes a hero by defeating the odds and the critics to become not only a five-foot three NBA player, but also a massively successful five-foot three NBA player. It can be assumed that there would never be a ruler of the Geats like Beowulf, but any future ruler would have to use him as an inspiration. Similarly, Muggsy Bogues is a one-of-a-kind NBA player, but he paves the way for the success of shorter NBA players such as Nate Robinson and Isaiah Thomas. Literally or figuratively, every hero has to defeat some sort of evil to earn the right to be called a hero, and Beowulf and Muggsy Bogues both earned that