Gilgamesh possess many epic hero qualities. For example, “Although I should go in sorrow and in pain, with sighing and with weeping, still I must go.” Gilgamesh it going on a quest even though he is sorrowed and grieving, so he is a quest taker and he is courageous. Aditionaly, O Urshanabi, was it for this that I toiled with my hands, is it for this I have wrung out my heart's blood? For myself I have gained nothing; not 1, but the beast of the earth has joy of it now. Already the stream has carried it twenty leagues back to the channels where I found it. Gilgamesh has learned a lesson that if you seek something it is not entitled to you, and it may just flee from you. Without a doubt Gilgamesh is a courageous quest taker who in the end fails
