Imagine living in the year 700 A.D. The evening’s entertainment is a poet, and he tells the story of Beowulf. Beowulf is an all-around hero, and he dazzles the audience with his determined nature and vows to right wrongs. Now fast-forward to the year 2002. The evening’s entertainment is a Batman movie. The screen shows Batman to be a present-day Beowulf, as he fights villains and makes the city a better place. This shows …showed first 75 words of 656 total…

…showed last 75 words of 656 total…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.