Gilgamesh
"Destiny in Gilgamesh and The Iliad" Stories do not need to inform us of things. From Gilgamesh for example, we know that some of the people who lived in the land between the Tigris and Euphates rivers in the second and third milleniums BCE. We know they celabrated a king named Gilgamesh; we know they believed in many gods; we know they were self- -consious of their own cultivation of the natural world; and we know they were literate. In the story, The Iliad we also know that great rulers and gods ruled and where top priority of the lands. Point being it can be argued that the story of Gil- -gamesh and the Iliad destiny's are quite the same in relivence of the wars and the way's of life both of the story's complete to meaningful death. In hand which comtr- -ibutes to both of the epics. In the story of Gilgamesh, it is important to look careful what happened in the story; that is , look at it as if the actions and people it describes actually took place or existed. The questions raised by a character's actions discuss the implic- -ations of their consequences. But it's not to consider how the story is put together rather how it uses the conventions of language, of events with beginings and endings of description of ch
aracter and storytelling itself to reawaken our sensitivity to the real world. The real world is the world without conventions, the unnameable, unrep- resentable world--in it's continuity of action, it's shadings and blurrings of character its indecipherable patterns of being. The Iliad and Gilgamesh story's is greatly a remminder of the way life is today; just different in time but neitherless to say similiar in goals and destiny's. Moreover, in the prologue of Gilgamesh it's found to know that he was two- -thirds god and one-third man, and his knowledge is the key that follows. Gilgamesh is a hero-- more beautiful, more courageous, more terrifying than the rest of us; his desires, attributes, and accomplishments epitomize our own. Yet he is also mortal: he must experiance the death of others and also die himself. How much more must a god rage against death than we who are merely mortal! And if he can reconile himself with death then surely we can. In fact, without death his life would be mean- -ingless, and the adventures that make up the epic would disappear. The story begins with the coming of Enkidu. As a young man and a god Gilgamesh has no compasion with the people of Uruk. He is their king but not their shepherd; he kills their sons and rapes the daughters. Hearing the peolpe's lament, the gods create Enkidu as a match for Gilgamesh, a second self:"[L]et them contend together and leave Uruk in quiet"(31). The plan works in several ways. First Enkidu prevents Gilgamesh from entering the house of a bride and bridegroom; they fight embrace as friends. Second, Enkudu and Gilgamesh undertake a journey into the forest
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Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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