Post 10: A Modern Hero, in comparison to an epic hero

                    My take on the modern hero versus the epic hero was sort of touched on in my last post, but I think I'll use this post to clean it up here. To me, an epic hero is one who does over the top, godlike heroic tasks, such as slaying beasts or speaking with or through the gods, or even completing a sort of epic journey. A modern hero, however, is someone who is revered for helping someone out in their community or doing something humanly good for another human. An example that I saw in several blog posts was the nurse being a sort of modern day hero, since it's their job to save other people's lives. However it is their job to do this, so I don't believe that they could qualify as a "hero" in the general sense. An epic hero did not necessarily look for recognition when it came to doing the things they did; however a hero nowadays has to do what they do in order to bring home a paycheck.