Gilgamesh is among the literary epics that have been filtered through the experiences of many storytellers from Mesopotamia. An exploration of the life in the desert setting is one that combines attributes of lack and abundance, and also exposure to danger and imminent opportunity. For example, the epic tells of the common experience of floods, which were very useful to the people in that they enriched the land. Unfortunately, the floods were also as unpredictable and adverse for the people of the region as any other people exposed to the extremities of nature. The cities of the people covered under the epic were also attacked by their enemies from time to time (Abusch 164). The frequency of attacks could be attributed to the fact that their
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The literary theme being communicated by the twist of fate could be that of exposing the nature of the working of the gods. The nature being exposed is that of creating a problem, and also fashioning the solution to the problem, which lies at the core of the continuity of internal wellbeing, just like the external wellbeing of the people of the time. The answer to the problems and the strife created by the power and influence of Gilgamesh had to be addressed by the gods, in a manner similar to that used in creating it. The twist of fate is evident from the creation of Enkidu by one of the people’s deities, Aruru. The complexity of the making of a new hero is that he is portrayed as being as being as equally powerful, and not necessarily more powerful than the internal enemy. A comparison of the power of the internal enemy and that of the internal solution to the problem could be compared to the abilities that the gods fashion in mysterious ways for humans. The mystery of the workings of the gods appears to communicate the theme that for every opportunity that the gods created, they also supplied the solutions to calm it down, when it becomes an adverse use of power (George 125). More importantly, just like the nature of the then community and social life, the audience is made to understand that the causes of the problem, as well as the basis for the solutions emanate with the
The literary theme being communicated by the twist of fate could be that of exposing the nature of the working of the gods. The nature being exposed is that of creating a problem, and also fashioning the solution to the problem, which lies at the core of the continuity of internal wellbeing, just like the external wellbeing of the people of the time. The answer to the problems and the strife created by the power and influence of Gilgamesh had to be addressed by the gods, in a manner similar to that used in creating it. The twist of fate is evident from the creation of Enkidu by one of the people’s deities, Aruru. The complexity of the making of a new hero is that he is portrayed as being as being as equally powerful, and not necessarily more powerful than the internal enemy. A comparison of the power of the internal enemy and that of the internal solution to the problem could be compared to the abilities that the gods fashion in mysterious ways for humans. The mystery of the workings of the gods appears to communicate the theme that for every opportunity that the gods created, they also supplied the solutions to calm it down, when it becomes an adverse use of power (George 125). More importantly, just like the nature of the then community and social life, the audience is made to understand that the causes of the problem, as well as the basis for the solutions emanate with the