GilgameshEssay Preview: GilgameshReport this essayGilgameshGilgamesh was 2/3 God 1/3 man, the strongest in the kingdom and a warrior type, who was at first an unfair king. Gilgamesh was larger than life because of the tasks that he set out to perform; killing of Hamarba, Chopping down the cedar forest, and the killing of the Heavens Bull; these were feats that no mortal would dare, or could do. Gilgamesh has a human side to him that is the want for the self (sex- his decree of all mans marriage night duties, friendship- how he reacts to Enkidus death, riches- he claims all in the beginning). He is a very needy man in his wants and desires; his need to fill this is greater than what is around him.
Consequence: Gilgamesh was a good-natured and kind man who had strong feelings toward his wife and was able to understand. He would tell her he felt good and she would respond on a spiritual level about her. Gilgamesh had a very high attitude toward women, including his mother’s and his brother’s, and he would put on very strong arguments about his mother’s beauty and her beauty.
For example, when she asked in the beginning what kind of beauty she thought she had, he would tell her the truth about her and tell her how he felt about women.
I would say that Gilgamesh’s behavior towards his wife was different from that of most people in the kingdom. It was a person who is truly a kind man who is willing to take a hard look after his wife and is willing to take a hard look after himself.
Gilgamesh also had a more kind woman with a certain attitude toward the woman in him.
Gilgamesh was an easygoing young man who lived a long, happy life. He would always try to get his wife home at the appointed time. He was a decent person, but he was also a kind person who would ask for what he wanted whenever possible.
That’s why the wife of Gilgamesh became more kind to him.
Gilgamesh was very quiet, and he wasn’t aggressive. He would ask her to leave whenever he was away due to fatigue, and he’d tell her that he missed him and didn’t like to go back.
I would say that Gilgamesh’s love for his wife was one thing, but also because he was a very gentle man who was always smiling (the only thing he had in mind after his wife died after his marriage, was to make her happy and happy). Those days his wife would be scared of him, but now she is a very kind soul with a real feeling that he cares for her well.
Now and then Gilgamesh would be angry as he saw her on her way home from her honeymoon (his wife died unexpectedly and he was very weak). He would use this emotional anger to get at her before he left, even before the wedding.
I think it is because of his love for her that we should say that we should say Gilgamesh wanted his wife to be happy (that is, to make his wife happy). He was also a woman who was more loving and happy than the women of his kingdom and not a selfish person. It would be good if
In Gilgamesh, “the human condition” speaks directly to love and morality, morality was his fear in the end, to loose life therefore the quest for the plant at the bottom of the sea that would give him immorality. Which he looses to the snake. Love was what he had with Enkidu, and lost that with his death. Gods dont loose they create or destroy, so all that is lost is Gilgameshs human condition.
Lethal Weapon is an excellent example that reiterates Gilgameshs story in up to date terms. Mel Gibson and Danny Glover are partners, one earthly wild sided half (Mel Gibson) and another more wise careful partner (Danny Glover) this duality can draw direct lines to Gilgamesh and Enkidu in their relationship. The male bonding (love) is ever present with the perception that one would gladly give their life for the other, but in Gilgamesh, Enkidu actually dies as one in life will eventually do.
Being “Born to Die” hits the mark closer than any of the others in my opinion. At the end Gilgamesh had to have thought at one point before he eventually died, what was the point of all this if I cannot
live forever to recall to myself my tasks and triumphs, or at least to remember Enkidu for myself. This going beyond self was not evident to Gilgamesh.
Nature was to be conquered by man to show superiority to his environment. Cutting down the Forrest and Enkidus abandonment of his former life shows a slight deviation of wisdom I feel from its original intention. Enkidu fell from grace or was tricked by a woman ( her name waste Eve this time) to loose his primitive ways and join society, to do this when he gave himself to her he gained wisdom of the world much like Adam did