The most well known Mesopotamian hero of all ancient gods. Gilgamesh was a semi-mythic king of Uruk and was considered a Demi-god. He lived a very long exceptional life. Supposedly ruling for a hundred and twenty six days. A number of tales have been written about Gilgamesh in Akkadian language. Stemming from the epic of Gilgamesh, the Gilgamesh tablets and a bunch of other myths concerning the great king. All these tales were based on him wanting to live forever he was scared of death and set on a journey to give himself eternal life. He struggles countless time throughout all the different versions of his story. Gilgamesh was a stubborn individual and wanted to have everything especially the long lasting fame of immortality. On his way to fame he is destined to fail because he has a certain role that was give to him and he needs to fulfill it and pass his torch.
In the epic of Gilgamesh, the great king was praised in many ways but as you read along you started to see the nasty. As in him being a jerk or other blasphemous words …show more content…
Thus knowledge coming from the flood hero Utnapishtim. Also, he contrast man as society and man as an individual. Many can identify Gilgamesh as a selfish individual. What he needed to learn to be a man of society for the good of his life. Through the first twenty eight lines of “He Who Saw The Deep” talks about climbing the walls of Uruk now most would that the important thing but it wasn’t. Really it was about to city and it beauty and how it works as a collective. George mentions that it was a mental journey for Gilgamesh. First he came to despair and then wisdom after learning many lessons. George wanting to go into deep depth of what the story really meant, he got at wisdom and the result of mortal Destiny. George as talks about to the three exclamations. Which refocus Gilgamesh's attention from a previous encounter with death and
In the epic of Gilgamesh, the great king was praised in many ways but as you read along you started to see the nasty. As in him being a jerk or other blasphemous words …show more content…
Thus knowledge coming from the flood hero Utnapishtim. Also, he contrast man as society and man as an individual. Many can identify Gilgamesh as a selfish individual. What he needed to learn to be a man of society for the good of his life. Through the first twenty eight lines of “He Who Saw The Deep” talks about climbing the walls of Uruk now most would that the important thing but it wasn’t. Really it was about to city and it beauty and how it works as a collective. George mentions that it was a mental journey for Gilgamesh. First he came to despair and then wisdom after learning many lessons. George wanting to go into deep depth of what the story really meant, he got at wisdom and the result of mortal Destiny. George as talks about to the three exclamations. Which refocus Gilgamesh's attention from a previous encounter with death and