A Leader Is The Position Held By A Person Who Leads A...

Leadership can be defined as the position held by a person who leads a group of people, the head of the group. A leader makes decisions for the group they are leading, hopefully based on what is best for the group. One of the roles of a leader is to influence and shape the members of the group to be more like them or to encourage the people to do something different. Leadership can go hand-in-hand with heroism; however, not always. Heroism can simply be defined as being very brave and courageous. A hero is a person who is praised for their bravery, courageousness, and honorable qualities. Most people connect heroes with the modern superheroes like Batman, Superman, or Spiderman; however, there are many other people that can be classified†¦show more content†¦Although there are many great heroes and leaders with characteristics of confidence and selflessness expressed through works like Beowulf and The One Thousand and One Nights, there are also corrupt leaders with the wrong intentions as expressed through the character of Gilgamesh in the beginning of the poem The Epic of Gilgamesh. The Thousand and One Nights is about a king whose wife cheats on him and as a reaction to her adulterous behaviors, he begins by first killing his wife, then marring a new woman every night just to kill her as well. Determined to stop the king’s killings, Shahrazad marries the king and starts telling him stories every night. She would fall asleep in the middle of her stories with the intent of putting off the king killing her from night to night, in hopes that he would change his mind eventually. The writer of The Thousand and One Nights states, â€Å"But morning overtook Shahrazad, and she lapsed into silence. Then her sister Dinarzad said, ‘Sister, what a lovely story!’ Shahrazad replied, ‘Tomorrow night I shall tell you something even lovelier, stranger, and more wonderful if I live, the Almighty God willing.’† Shahrazad quoted these words or something similar as she continued this process for 1,001 nights until her plan worked. Shahrazad de monstrated many qualities that can classify her as a leader and a hero, which is unusual for women in the era the story was written. She uses wisdom, wit, charm to