Heroes Through The Ages

Heroes of society have been told and heard of for hundreds of years. Weather the people are in rejoice or despair, they always have a figure that they look up to. Although there has always been a constant hero throughout time, the defenition that society puts on these figures changes tremendously. Going back to Beowulf, the society had viewed him as a great hero, while we today may not find that in him. In the society of that time, many were peasants or soldiers. Since they were considered weak and defenseless, so they developed a hero to look up to. In this case, Beowulf was described as having great strength and power over people. These were admirable characteristics that gave the people someone to look up to and strive to be. This is the main feature of a hero, though, throughout any time period. As seen in modern times, we still have this strong hero represented by superheroes, but there are also those who are average people doing special deeds in our world. Today's society now bases heroes more on morals than brute force. This is because the world looks down upon mass killing and murders and looks for what a person can do for the good of humanity. This can be found in superheroes, although they possess unnatural abilities. For example Superman has tremendous strength that would be related to that of Beowulf, but he is only out to save people in the world from danger. But the fate of the world does not rest in fiction. But those everyday people who serve and protect the people of the world. A very important event in the United States history would be 9/11. The men and women who helped save all they could no matter what happened are the heroes we look up to today. These acts of selflessness and strength are what we see in a hero today, much as did the people on Beowulfs time see him.