You may not be able to control what happens to you but you can control what happens within you. People usually find themselves when they gain or lost something special to them. Love is priceless and death is inevitable. Love can change a person’s perception of certain things or change them completely as a person. Gilgamesh is a king who is known for is cruelty and selfishness. He commits so many atrocities that even the gods could not stop him. Finally, they came up with an idea that can possibly stop him. The gods creates a rival, a man that can contend against Gilgamesh and hopeful be his doom. This man Enkidu is created to bring Gilgamesh to his knees, but each man wrestles each other and Gilgamesh prevails. They kiss after the fight and
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Eventually, he realizes that humans are destined to die. This made him rewrite his definition of immortality. He then discern that in order to achieve immortality he must spread his name through all the corners of the world. In doing so, he thought if he did the undoable people who forever sing his name in poems and hymns. Thus, he embarked on a deadly journey to the forest of cedars to kill the guardian of the forest Humbaba. Humbaba is a fearsome giant and cannot be penetrated. Gilgamesh thought of him as a perfect scapegoat for his quest for immortality. Gilgamesh and Enkidu succeeds in killing the giant, but Enkidu had to pay for the sin they both committed with his life. After the death of Enkidu, death because Gilgamesh’s greatest fear. “Shall I not die too? Am I not like Enkidu? Oh woe has entered my vitals! I have grown afraid of death, so I roam the steppe.” (Puncher 73). So, he embarks on the second quest for immortality. This time it is to get an actual portion that is going to make him live forever. He got the “magic plant” but a serpent stole it from him. He return to Uruk as a humble and sorry king. Who learnt his lesson that truly death is inevitable to all living …show more content…
He came to realize how powerful the gods were. At the end of the epic Gilgamesh said to Ur-Shanabi, the boat man. “Go up, Ur-Shanabi, pace out the walls of Uruk. Study the foundation terrace and examine the brickwork. Is not its masonry of kiln-fired brick? And did not seven masters lay its foundations? One square mile of city, one square mile of gardens, One square mile of clay pits, a half square mile of Ishtar’s dwelling, Three and a half square miles is the measure of Uruk! (Puchner 88). It seen as though Gilgamesh made peace with the gods. The way he praised the walls of Uruk, glorifying its mightiness. It is clear that he has finally accepted his place as a human being, and that he is nothing greater than being human. “Enkidu is the rational part of the friendship; once he is gone, it is not necessarily his death, but his absence and inability to counsel Gilgamesh, that leads Gilgamesh to go off on such an irrational quest. When Gilgamesh goes from lamenting the death of his friend to lamenting his own future death, his feelings for his friend don 't diminish. Gilgamesh and Enkidu are so close that, when Enkidu dies, Gilgamesh is basically losing a part of himself anyway.” (Wolff 395). Love made Gilgamesh the person he is. Fear made him aspire for what he is not and can never be. Experience made him admit and own to his
Eventually, he realizes that humans are destined to die. This made him rewrite his definition of immortality. He then discern that in order to achieve immortality he must spread his name through all the corners of the world. In doing so, he thought if he did the undoable people who forever sing his name in poems and hymns. Thus, he embarked on a deadly journey to the forest of cedars to kill the guardian of the forest Humbaba. Humbaba is a fearsome giant and cannot be penetrated. Gilgamesh thought of him as a perfect scapegoat for his quest for immortality. Gilgamesh and Enkidu succeeds in killing the giant, but Enkidu had to pay for the sin they both committed with his life. After the death of Enkidu, death because Gilgamesh’s greatest fear. “Shall I not die too? Am I not like Enkidu? Oh woe has entered my vitals! I have grown afraid of death, so I roam the steppe.” (Puncher 73). So, he embarks on the second quest for immortality. This time it is to get an actual portion that is going to make him live forever. He got the “magic plant” but a serpent stole it from him. He return to Uruk as a humble and sorry king. Who learnt his lesson that truly death is inevitable to all living …show more content…
He came to realize how powerful the gods were. At the end of the epic Gilgamesh said to Ur-Shanabi, the boat man. “Go up, Ur-Shanabi, pace out the walls of Uruk. Study the foundation terrace and examine the brickwork. Is not its masonry of kiln-fired brick? And did not seven masters lay its foundations? One square mile of city, one square mile of gardens, One square mile of clay pits, a half square mile of Ishtar’s dwelling, Three and a half square miles is the measure of Uruk! (Puchner 88). It seen as though Gilgamesh made peace with the gods. The way he praised the walls of Uruk, glorifying its mightiness. It is clear that he has finally accepted his place as a human being, and that he is nothing greater than being human. “Enkidu is the rational part of the friendship; once he is gone, it is not necessarily his death, but his absence and inability to counsel Gilgamesh, that leads Gilgamesh to go off on such an irrational quest. When Gilgamesh goes from lamenting the death of his friend to lamenting his own future death, his feelings for his friend don 't diminish. Gilgamesh and Enkidu are so close that, when Enkidu dies, Gilgamesh is basically losing a part of himself anyway.” (Wolff 395). Love made Gilgamesh the person he is. Fear made him aspire for what he is not and can never be. Experience made him admit and own to his