Robin The Hood V. Beowulf

            Robin Hood and Beowulf are both classic tales of heroes. But each character is from a totally different area in time. Robin is a noble man from the captivating town called Locksley where he helps people and trys to stop the evil prince John from taking over the thrown. Beowulf on the other hand is a lot more different. Beowulf is a Viking that dose not have a main place to live in the story, he just lives in various Viking villages. His duties as a Viking are to get himself his honor back and to help other Vikings. Do the stories Robin Hood and Beowulf have anything in common? Yes they do, and the first thing that is quite common between both of the stories is hubris that both Robin of Locksley and Beowulf share. .
             The two characters Robin Hood and Beowulf in their stories both are heroes in the end. But for them to get there they both have to have pride to make them look witty and at the same time have them both seem as if they can do anything. The example that best shows Robin Hood in his state of over exaggerated pride is when he walks into Prince John's castle with the deer that was killed earlier that day. It made Prince John mad that he was there. What makes that scene in the movie show Robins over exaggerated pride is that Robin could have been captured, even worse, killed. Because Prince John hated Robin Hood, and Robin knows that about the Prince. In Beowulf there are plenty of examples that can describe hubris. The example that can depict hubris with the most details is when Beowulf was swimming down in the swampy like lake for hours, trying to find Grendel's mother to take revenge on his friend who was killed. That part of the story makes Beowulf's hubris noticeable because Beowulf could swim at extreme depths. Although both Beowulf and Robin had hubris they were both used in various ways. Robin's hubris was used to give him more realistic hubris unlike Beowulf where it was mostly used to give him super human powers.