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Ulysses And Beowulf: A True Hero

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A hero is someone who stands up for something even if everyone else disagrees or someone who perseveres on. They are not afraid and never back down. Both Ulysses and Beowulf is a greater hero than Ulysses because he doesn't have hubris, is determined until his last breath and is always calm, he never gets angry. Ulysses had been too ignorant and was too filled with hubris to keep his mouth shut after devising a brilliant plan to escape from Polyphemus, the cyclops. He yelled “Poor fool! Poor blinded, drunken, gluttonous fool— if anyone else asks you, it was not nobody but Ulysses who has done this to you.” This resulted him in being cursed. Beowulf on the other hand, did not boast about defeating Grendel. He continued to help Hrothgar by also
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