Gilgamesh and Odysseus
A comparison of the Epic of Gilgamesh and the Odyssey searching for the Gilgamesh and Odysseus are both men. They are ordinary men who have been granted certain strengths, one has physical strength and one has mental strength. However, they experience hardships and make mistakes. They try to find themselves through life just like any average man. The two works of literature, the Epic of Gilgamesh and the Odyssey, are compared as expressions of searches for this meaning of life through knowledge. The two stories are somewhat mirrors of themselves in this manner. Gilgamesh and Odysseus find out their own meanings of life through trials and tribulations just as any ordinary man would. In the prologue of the Epic of Gilgamesh, we learn that he is two- thirds god and one-third man. He is king of Uruk. He is more than anyone can desire to be, yet he is still mortal and must experience death of a loved one and death himself. This will turn out to be Gilgamesh's question of life as we will see. The Odyssey is somewhat different in the format of events, so we do not know much about Odysseus until later in the story. But due to reading the Iliad we know that Odysseus is the
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Approximate Word count = 1586
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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