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Epic Hero - Beowulf
Summary: Explores the character of Beowulf as an epic hero. Describes the qualities of an epic hero and examines the Anglo-Saxon tradition of epic heroes.
Epic Hero, what is an epic hero? What is an epic? Epic means poetic, hero has a number of meanings. It is courage, positive, strong and intelligent. An epic Hero is a Poetic mighty man, which is very expensive in this world. There is someone who asked me a question, " Am I a hero? ." I replied half and half because to be a hero needs abundance of strength and knowledge. In the novel of epic heroes, there has to be a hero and a villain, because a hero is not a warrior without a villain, as a baby can't bear without a woman and a man. Thus a hero is frequently considered the positive and the villain-evil.
During a period of time, when it is called The Anglo-Saxons, an unknown man or woman wrote a story of an epic hero. The name of the story was " Beowulf", which...
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