Beowulf a Perfect Hero?

In "The Hero and the Theme," George Clark quotes Kathryn Hume stating, "We know too little of his everyday humanity, his normal human feelings, to be able to see him as an extension of ourselves." I agree with this statement, Beowulf is not a perfect hero. He is far from it actually, his power is exaggerated and his actions are too absurd that he is not at all relatable to a reader. Beowulf goes from one epic battle to the next, from Grendel, to Grendel's mother, to the dragon. There is never a time where Beowulf is not battling some fiendish monstor. Every "hero" in literature accomplishes great feats against monstrous foes, but not all the time. The time in between those battles is what makes the character relatable. Similar decisions that need to made to what we as readers must also make on a day to day basis make a hero relatable. That is why people attach themselves to heroes as much as they do, because they identify with them. Beowulf cannot be easily identified with, unless you are an insanely strong brute of a man. Though Beowulf makes some extraordinary sacrifices in his epic poem, he is not a role model in his quest for immortality through his fame and honor. If Beowulf's struggles were shown to us, if we could see that he was in fact human and prone to human feelings he would be more of an ideal hero. In the media, we see superheroes such as Batman and Spider-man as human beings capable of human feelings, but have extraordinary powers that normal people do not posess. Each of them struggles with something that anyone could relate to whether it is about relationships, guilt, a need for revenge, or a feeling of helplessness. They show feelings, something Beowulf never really did. We cannot see Beowulf as an extension of ourselves as we could other heroes, therefore making him unrelatable and not a perfect hero. Beowulf may fit Clark's opinion that the poem's theme and hero are the same, as Beowulf reaches for immortality among men. But, what is the point of reaching immortality or even dreaming of it if one cannot grasp the possibility of oneself ever accomplishing something as Beowulf did. Beowulf is not depicted as being a human, we do not see any everyday actions or human feelings that are relatable in Beowulf, he is not a perfect hero.