Is Beowulf Really A Hero?

Is The Beowulf really a hero in the eyes of modern era? This epic poem is not conventional in today’s belief of what we know as a hero. The poem shows Beowulf as a divine king that leads his people with spunk and without solicitude. Then why does he cheat on his wife or get the wonderful women at the end of the story? Today this poem is not what we think of as a hero, we think of heroes in three distinct ways, we think of a hero in a way that a person does something to shield something that isn't theirs example a person jumping in a lake to save a drowning dog, another way we look at a superhero we think of an extraterrestrial character from another planet or a person that has super power or capabilities than the average human example is the Hulk or Superman, and the last would be somewhat related to the second reason is that they do something completely unheard of like saving the earth from the villains that want to take it or destroy it .

Another reason why most of the people in the world today renounce the epic poem is because he is dies, most of the superheros in today’s age they can’t die they are immortal unlike Beowulf he dies because he was foolish and fell into Grendel's mother spell and cheated on his wife and portrayed his kingdom.

Why isn't he a better looking guy, why doesn’t it end in a good way, If he was a hero why did he fall under a spell aren't they suppose to be strapping than others and more quick-witted? The answer to all these general questions is, Yes he is suppose to be and do all these things; But these a key aspects to be a hero in the modern day or being a

hero. He dies at the end to a big snafu he did in the earlier years of his life. The only way he comes remotely even close to a hero is that he slays a dragon to save his kingdom in the movie but in the poem this doesn’t happen. There is nothing super about this character in my idea he is selfish, not brave until the end of his life, and he is a slob. The movie portrays this character, and this is why he is not in the books of the modern day superheroes, also even though humans can still be heroes we don’t look at them like we look at Beowulf, because heroes put others before themselves because they are immortal or they are not self centered, they want what's best for other people due to the fact that they care about others. Beowulf cannot and will not ever be a hero because he is undeserving of it.