Beowulf Hero's Journey

Beowulf does not qualify as a mythic hero by Campbell’s terms in The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Beowulf has no love interest or a temptation to over come, like in The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell. Beowulf follows many of the steps Campbell states it takes to make a hero but not quite all of them.

To start off Campbell has many qualifications on what makes and what doesn’t make a hero, in his literature The Hero with a Thousand Faces, but that is only Campbell’s opinion of what makes a hero, a Hero. Campbell’s literature is the “classic hero” that most storybooks think up, where the implications are, the hero faces trials, overcomes temptation, falls in love, the basics; as where Beowulf does face trials, he has no love interest

and there is no temptation, Beowulf’s implications are a king is wiser by being “lazy” then being prideful, learn from your actions and fight a good fight, but just because Beowulf is not a replica of Campbell’s theory of a hero doesn't mean he isn't one.
To sum it up, Beowulf may not be a hero to Campbell but that doesn’t mean he isn’t one at all. Beowulf may not follow all the steps that The Hero with a Thousand Faces lay out, but this heroic story is still Heroic and follows most of Campbell’s steps.