Beowulf and Sir Gawain What makes a person a hero? Is it their strengths? Their morals? Is a hero always a hero, or can a hero be replaced? Throughout history heroes have emerged in literature. An epic hero is a character in literature whose traits are valued in the society in which the epic originated. In the epic poems Beowulf and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Beowulf is much like Sir Gawain, yet the …
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