Culture hero

You can find heros in almost anyone, perhaps your parents, your friend, and even your favorite actor from a TV show. When you think about heros usually the first type that comes to mind is, Spiderman, Deadpool, Batman, and Firefighters. Yes, they are heroes, but they are the typical heroes found in movies. No one ever really thinks about those heroes that are in your favorite TV shows or Romantic Comedy movies or even heroes found in your everyday life. Each hero is different and fall into one…

Beowulf Because of Beowulf’s valor, strength,and hunger to make his name remembered, Beowulf epitomizes the ideal anglo-saxon epic hero. The protagonist in this epic poem displays a type of bravery that no monster can shake as he risks his only life only to be ”Inspired again by the thought of glory, the war-king threw his whole strength behind a sword-stroke and connected with the skull” (Raffel 2677-2680). The sheer bravery of facing a dragon let alone conquering the beast is not a task for…

Ancient Greece was a society that honored great heroism, even though thousands of years have passed, the traits needed to be a hero have stayed constant. Malala Yousafzai possesses traits of a modern day hero that fights for the education of women in the highly patriarchal society of the Middle East. She was criticized for her viewpoint by the radical Taliban and shot her in the head. In the epic poem The Iliad by Homer, he focuses on two individuals that are viewed as great heroes in the war…

Hero's are often interpreted as people who save and protect. In fact, google’s exact definition of a hero “Is a person who is admired or idealized for courage, outstanding achievements, or noble qualities.” Those are heroes but they’re not the only heroes in this world. Heroes are people who help someone change the world for the better or spark hope in someone's eyes and inspire. They change some part of the world for the better. Heroes carry out their lives like everyone else. They have their…

what the community values. Beowulf showed admirable qualities like courage and loyalty to his community. His lust, pride, and confidence, however, made him less commendable to his society and became cautionary tale about hubris. The warrior culture in Beowulf is quickly set up to make courage an admirable trait in people. The very first lines of the story state “So. The Spear-Danes in days gone by and the kings who ruled them had courage and greatness. We have heard of those princes’ heroic…

Nearly all of human culture has some form of the stories of heroes or the epics, tragedies and fairy tales written about them. This type of story is so ubiquitous that we have a name to identify the common pattern that these hero stories follow: The Hero's Journey. It is a very effective method of writing stories and many stories follow the pattern unintentionally. In the novel Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse utilizes the Hero's Journey pattern to draw a parallel between its story and other…

not any atrocities. In the final battle the hero will be in a bunker with his friends and a grenade is thrown through the window, wanting to save his friends the hero throws himself on top of the grenade. Exploding beneath him, he is comatose for the rest of the war. Escaping with only the loss of one of his eyes and a body full of shrapnel. He is given a hero’s welcome, as his bravery during the war and self-sacrifice had made him into a national hero. All he wishes to do is to return home to…

by the family or the culture or the time period in which we happen to grow up, which are accidents of birth; whether we grow up in war zone versus peace; in poverty rather than prosperity. Each of us possess the capacity to do terrible things,but we also possess an inner hero; if stirred to action,that inner hero is capable of performing tremendous goodness for others and tend to save more lives and become stronger emotionally and physically. Third,In order to become a hero you must start small…

many comic book characters consistently retain the same appearance. It’s true that these heroes are known to look and act a certain way but, is it really necessary to keep them that way. Appearances and actions are mutually exclusive. Is Superman a hero because he is a white male? Is Batman? How about Captain America or Spiderman? No, they’re heroes because of what they stand for and because the ways they show what they stand for. Saying that a character needs to be kept a…

needed; they do as much as they can even when not asked. Heroes are found through all walks of nature, they could be a normal pedestrian or the local fireman. In the story Beowulf heroes are defined as men who are loyal, proud and accept their fate. A hero is someone who’s loyal to his men, his followers and kingdom. Beowulf’s loyalty is demonstrated when he is willing to risk his life for the safety of his kingdom and his warriors. ”As his words ended, He leaped into the lake,” by Beowulf…