How can one even refer to Beowulf as anything less than a hero? In the legendary epic called Beowulf, whose author is still unknown, a heroic character named Beowulf stands up against an evil demon named Grendel who eats and terrorizes innocent people. To label one as a hero, he or she must possess heroic qualities such as courage, conviction, persistence, tolerance, empathy, leadership and most important, fortitude. Beowulf exhibits all of those traits and …showed first 75 words of 425 total…

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