Epic Heros In The Epic Of Gilgamesh And Rama

People are often asked if something is either right or wrong. Sometimes the answer is quite simple but other times the answer can get extremely complicated. These kind of questions can often be answered through what people call common sense. However, there are some situations where the answer will differ depending on who the person being asked and how he was raised and/or how they learn to live their life. As people get older and more mature not only is their body the only thing that grows larger and bigger, their mind also grows wiser and full of knowledge. Mistakes will be unavoidable but it is the one thing people learn from; either from making the mistake on their own or watching others as they make it. There are people who mainly learns from experience as they go through life on their own, watching and learning, while there are others who try to base their life after a person, a role model, who may or may have never even existed in this world. Epic heroes such as Gilgamesh from The Epic of Gilgamesh, Rama from The Ramayana are a couple of figures that encourages …show more content…
Gilgamesh was the one who neglected his duty to his people in pursuit of something that was impossible to achieve in the first place. Thinking that he is a mere mortal and he will eventually die frightened him and the way Enkidu described the place he saw where he was going in his death was enough to scare most people. “To the palace of Irkalla, the Queen of Darkness, to the house from which none who enters ever returns, down the road from which there is no coming back” (Epic of Gilgamesh 10). And while Rama would have accepted this destiny whole heartedly, Gilgamesh fled. If this was what the gods had in mind for Rama 's future then there was no point in trying to change it. The only thing a man can do is live as best as he could without harming innocent