An essay comparing Beowulf to Epic Heroes of Today

"True Blue Revolutionaries or Tired Beowulf Reruns" "Beowulf to Batman: The Epic Hero and Pop Culture" by Roger B. Rollins compares the design of the epic poetry to the design of today's pop culture. The epic poem refers to Anglo-Saxon poems such as Beowulf. Pop culture refers to movies, shows, and comics of today such as Batman and Spiderman. The main point of Rollin's essay is to show the significance of epic poetry to the …

…by the values given to the creator by the culture. Therefore, "whether Delight of Instruction then is the uppermost in the mind of the creator of the fiction, it the fiction is successful the will likely be the same: the culture will find reiterated in that fiction most of the values is passed to the creator in the first place. It is almost inevitable therefore, that pop romance for example, instruct in spit of itself(2.)"