We will give the man more power than you normally have: The man is cold.  As he walks towards  you across the field he shivers.  He thinks how good a fire is as he warms himself beside the one in the field.  He thinks about the value of that fire, of the purpose of the warmth on his hand and arm, and of the value  to the future of his nation this small moment may have.  He thinks out loud:  "The slave...in gross brain little wots                                  [wots = understands]   What watch the King keeps to maintain the peace...." Shortly afterwards, if you know your Shakespeare well, King Henry V, for it is he, rises to meet his nobles at his tent.  It is there he makes one of the most read of Shakespeare's great speeches on the dawn of the bloody battle of Agencourt. This is the heroic level.  The  Heroic Level involves us at our very best.  Our man turns into a king.  He perceives not only what is there, but effects and consequences.  Everything in that field is changed through his great power.  Even the fire is changed.  If it had not warmed the arm of the king, that arm might not have hewn so mightily that day.  Had it not warmed the body of the king, his still shivering body might not have produced the voice that united his weary men.  On the heroic level we make the  catch, win the race, earn the prize.  This level is not fantasy; it is real, as the Battle of Agencourt was real: historians report that some ten thousand French were killed, but fewer than six hundred English died--perhaps as  few as one hundred.  From the English perspective this was an heroic victory, and every man a hero in his own right.  Who would deny they were? Lots of literature exists on the heroic level.  Want some examples?