Gilgamesh And Enkindu Gay Essay

Were Gilgamesh and Enkindu gay is a question that has been raised several times from the myth of Gilgamesh. In my opinion, maybe he was bisexual. One of the complaints his subjects have against him is that he's forcing himself on their women, especially having his way with brides before their husbands. Although he rejects the invitation of the goddess Ishtar to become her lover, he makes it clear that his reason is that her lovers always come to bad ends when she tires of them--not that he isn't interested. Then at the end, after he dies, he leaves behind both a wife and a concubine as well as a son. A king may have felt obligated to marry, but having a concubine as well must have been his own choice. On the other hand, he seems to have felt his deepest emotional attachment to Enkidu. From their first meeting, they recognize each other as soul brothers. (Not surprising, since the gods made Enkidu as a carbon copy of Gilgamesh.) When the gods want to strike at Gilgamesh, they seem to know that taking Enkidu away from him would be the most painful blow they could inflict.
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Yes in a sense it really was meaningless but at the same time it was done to teach him a lesson in my opinion. In a sense, I think that in The Myth of Sisyphus, we all as students can simply relate. By being college students, we often are faced with trials and tribulations whether it’s work or school. In reference to it being school, we are often given task that we must complete. Once we begin on these task we have a good start then here comes this stone that’s being rolled on you causing you to stray away from your goals and you have to come to a complete halt that puts you behind. All in all to say this, those stones are thrown at you to teach you a lesson that you can never let anything distract you from doing what you need to do in order to be