What do you consider a hero? Many people have different ways of seeing someone as a hero, such as what they do or what they look like. Does Beowulf really qualify as a mythic hero according to Joseph campbell’s “ The Hero with a Thousand Faces”? Yes, Beowulf does qualify as a mythic hero for many reasons. Beowulf is considered a mythic hero because there are three types of passages in “ The Hero with a Thousand Faces”. The first type is the separation, which is where the hero decides to go on an adventure to do good things and save lives. An example of this is when Beowulf hears about grendel and decides himself to go and make a difference and defeat Grendel. The second type is initiation, which is the hero actually doing the things that