A significant difference between Beowulf and modern-day heroes is the distinction between mortality and vulnerability. Roger B. Rollin wrote the following: "Heroes like Batman are always being threatened with death but never die (or even age), whereas Beowulf not only ages but dies. He is intensely aware of fate and almost preoccupied with death. Transience is his

Batman is a coward to Beowulf and the people of his time, while Beowulf would be looked upon as a fool in today's society. Reality has many false dimensions for the people of the 21st -century, therefore making the number of actual dimensions deplete in number. Today's hero is more ultimate: How far can we go? How big and powerful can something or someone be? The idea of a hero with Beowulf's characteristics is as far away as Batman is from ever being a real person. This provides frightening ideas about what attributes a future hero will have to possess. Society can only deteriorate further leaving even more to be desired from what they will call their hero.

Beowulf in his vulnerability creates a perception to which the every-day person can identify. People of this time period did not have the distractions from one another like that which is present today. Being very pragmatic people, a hero like Batman would have never been allowed or ac

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