Comparing Beowulf And Sir Gawain

Beowulf and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight where written during different time periods. The different time periods not only show a change of writing, but a change how certain characters were portrayed. Even though Beowulf and Sir Gawain are both heroes of their story, they are very different in the way that they are heroic. Most heroic stories almost always have a similar plot. The hero steps up to save its town from an evil person or creature. This occurs in both stories but in different ways because of how the personality of Beowulf and Sir Gawain were written. While reading Beowulf, he was intelligent but his strength was his more superior quality. It was said that he had the strength of 30 men in this hand. The difference with Sir