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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-
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
. . .
The story begins with the coming of Enkidu. Second, Enkudu and Gilgamesh undertake a journey into the
forest to confront the terrible Humbaba. Gilgamesh
is a hero-- more beautiful, more courageous, more terrifying than the rest of us; his
desires, attributes, and accomplishments epitomize our own. Later to find out in the story of the Iliad when the cheif fighter
Hector leads the Trojans through the greeks wall with vingance.
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.
At the period women where belittled and treated like whores and it was all fine. Poseidon keeps Agamemnon from calling retreat to
the ships, while hera (borrowing a magic girdle from Aprhodite) seduces Zeus and
lulls him to sleep. Yet he is also mortal:
he must experiance the death of others and also die himself. That's the thing about this war between the Greeks
and Trojans all of the flat characters of these two stories seem's to be their destiny
to die with honor. 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. He goes out to meet Achilles in single combat and is
slain. The epic begins with an arguement between the greek king and the chief
fighter. 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).
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