Examples Of Flaws In Beowulf

Everyone has issues, issues equal flaws, people like parents, politicians, kids, and even the president cough, cough major flaws. If all people are flawed, and heroes are people, then heroes are flawed too. Just because you have a flaw doesn’t mean you aren’t you; same goes for heroes, heroes are heroes even with flaws.

No one is flawless; even great heroes like Beowulf have flaws. In the epic, Beowulf was portrayed as nearly flawless. Examples are how Beowulf in the epic ripped Grendel's arm off with his bare hands. In the movie, Beowulf sheared it off with the door in the movie his strength is more believable instead of superhuman. Another example is how he kills Grendel's mother with a giant sword that no man but him can lift. I mean that just sounds a little unbelievable, in the movie Beowulf ends up having intercourse with Grendel's mother because she transforms into Angelina Jolie, I mean come on what man wouldn’t and it would be a lot more believable for that time period men were a lot more greedy and thought only of themselves a lot more back then.

Flaws can be overcome like Beowulf after defeating the dragon in the epic died but with his dying breath, he gave the dragons hoarded gold to his kingdom, even though it ended up buried with him. Now, In the movie, he has a child with Grendel’s mother, and it lays waste to

Eventually, his memory loss that happens to him later, but after retracing his steps and finding the missing pieces of his past, he comes back to the x-men to be a permanent member of the team. The point is that flaws don’t stop these heroes from being heroes they still save people and do great deeds. One hero that almost never seems to have flaws is Captain America just like Beowulf in the epic only he isn’t egotistical, you could call his previous state before he was a super soldier a