My favorite hero is Beowulf
After watching Movie Beowulf looks for me as Real Hero. This is a movie made in cartoon style, and we can see two separate phases. First is when he is young, and second when he gets old. And it is a time when he gets to different conflicts with monsters. They are Grendel, Grendel’s Mother and the dragon. In film dragon is a child of Beowulf that devastates and starts to destroy kingdom of his father. In film he is half human, but we can see how his father fights with him and dies in the end. As for me, Beowulf is a unregulated warrior with mature heroism and reliable king. There two phases of his life, divided by fifty years, written in two different models of good quality, that shows Beowulf how he get changed.
In his youth, Beowulf is a great warrior, characterized mainly by his achievements of strength and courage, including his fabled swimming match against Breca. He even kills 9 sea monsters.
His defeat of Grendel and Grendel’s mother confirms his reputation for bravery and shows him fully as a hero. In first part of the poem, Beowulf matures little, as he possesses heroic qualities in great quantity from the start. Though Beowulf does not become king for many years, his ideal career as a warrior has served in part to prepare him for his the throne.
The second part of the epic poem shows him after fifty years, when he became a king and he is tired after all wars. For him they are bloody and cruel, because small tribes devastates against Beowulf without chances to kill him. As one of leaders wanted to kill him in the film, Beowulf took all s armor off and said kill him, but this leader of tribe could not do it. Beowulf is already dead after all that warrior career and heroic actions that he made.
In final episode his last encounter in life is a dragon. And as a king it shows responsibility to act like a king, for good people and not just for own glory and pride.
n the final episode—the encounter with the dragon—the poet reflects further on how the responsibilities of a king, who must act for the good of the people and not just for his own glory, and it differs from those of the heroic warrior. So, for the first time of his life Beowulf feels that he is not immortal and untouchable is it was before. He is buried after fight with dragon as a great hero and leader, his last courageous fight is also adrenaline rash. Beowulf is my favorite hero because in last fight of his life he thought about people around them and saved his kingdom, not like other epic heroes that thought only for pride and glory.
