Many people say that Beowulf was a great example of the Hero's Journey, but many people disagree that Beowulf was a great one example. The Hero's Journey consists of several stages that the hero must overcome. In Beowulf, Beowulf had to overcome many difficult stages similar to the Hero's Journey, but not quite similar. In this essay I will talk about Beowulf translated by Seamus Heaney and Excepts from Myth and the Movies, Stuart Voytillam Foreword by Christopher Vogler. Beowulf encounters many passages similar to the Hero's Journey, but is never able to fully complete the Hero's Journey due to his failure to achieve peace. In “Beowulf” Beowulf was unable to complete the hero's journey due to the time period, culture, and ignorant choices Beowulf made. The hero's journey should help shape the hero who is on the journey by modifying the inner character changes during the journey due to the surrounding events. Even in the hero's journey, once the hero completes the journey, he should be recognized by the people he helped and enjoy life at home. But in Beowulf this does not happen because once the journey is completed he does not learn from the mistakes, failures and results he encounters during the journey. The hero's journey should teach and change the hero as he goes through adventures. In the hero's journey, the hero's purpose is to serve and sacrifice an answer or remedy that will help and could save the life of one or more people. In "Beowulf", Beowulf first receives a call to adventure from King Hrothgar and accepts the call to adventure to go to Denmark. When Beowulf accepts the call to adventure he skips a step in the hero's journey as it is described as the... middle of paper... of continuing to fight battle after battle. He could have returned to his ordinary world by sharing the elixir with others or healing a wounded land, but he has decided to continue fighting, and due to his poor choices, he cannot do so. In conclusion, the heroic poem of Beowulf is different from other heroic stories because they both went through the hero's journey but the heroes learned different ideas. Beowulf neither gains wisdom nor loses pride in himself, he decides to meet everything that comes his way. According to the hero's journey, Beowulf would always take the path back because he would not learn the lessons the journeys were teaching him. He was unable to transform the power he had and transform that power into his understanding of life. Beowulf saved and protected many lives, but ultimately failed to save and protect his own life.