Compare And Contrast Batman And Beowulf

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The courageous hero from a literature that I choose is Batman created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger. He first appeared in “Detective Comics #27” in 1939 with the name “Bat-man”. During his 78 year run he has held man names some are “The Dark Knight, the Caped Crusader, and the World’s Greatest Detective”, but one thing that has survived and remain the same throughout the 78 year run which is still going on are his values. Beowulf is an aged epic poem that are made up of 3,182 alliterative lines. The authors are unknown but the date of the poem is estimated to be around 700-1,000 A.D. and the manuscript to be dated around 975-1010 A.D.
Batman origin starts in the fiction city Gotham City where his parents get killed in an alley way one night after leaving a play. After that traumatic experience Batman or Brue Wayne which is his citizen name, life changes forever. From that day he didn’t want to feel helpless
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They are both loyal to their cause Batman to protect Gotham City and Beowulf to his loyalty to his king. They both have to be strong and courageous to face any adversity that may come their way from monsters to a crazy clown. They both have numerous sets of skill to defeat the evil that they face. They both also have help Beowulf from his soldiers and batman from his partner Robin or the Justice League. They both don’t have a super power but rely on their gadgets from help.
But just how they are alike, they are so widely different. One big difference is that Batman under no circumstances does he kill, unlike Beowoulf who does. There origins story and motivation are also widely different Batman is motivated by the traumatic experience of his parents death occurring in front of his eyes, Beowulf is a solider following the kings rule. Batman in some ways is also more realistic because he has died before, he has lost many battles, and what helps him the most is his brain and his

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