Eckhart, a notable Christian Mystic of the 14th century said this of suffering:”If God could have given to men anything more noble than suffering, He would have redeemed mankind with it.”Indeed, suffering has an innate ability to advance mankind along the human journey. From enduring suffering and surmounting the obstacles that cause it, mankind becomes more noble, more virtuous and more better people. This happened to gilgamesh of Gilgamesh:averse narrative, as he lost his friend enkidu, to Holden, in Jd Salinger’s Book The Catcher inthe Rye, as he faced his brothers death and the loss of innocence, and to Theseus in Mythology and you by DOnna rosenberg, as he fought numerous monsters, bandits, and criminals to become a hero. Without suffering,
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Together, they complete each other and change each other significantly. Thy fight together, drink together, are are close as brothers. Yet when Enkidu dies, Gilgamesh is thrown into a deep sadness and goes on a quest to bring him back to life. Gilgamesh suffers without his friend, because his friend grew to be such a part of him. On page 53 it says “ GIlgamesh wept Sometimes I act a lot older than I am – I really do – but people never notice it. People never notice anything.bitterly for his friend. He felt himself now singled out for loss apart from everybody else.” From this quote you can see how much he suffers- “ weeping bitterly” and f”feeling singled out” for an especial sadness and hardship. His suffering is a cute,and it changes him greatly. At the beginning of the story, the people of uruk suffer under his rule:”as king, Gilgamesh was a tyrant to his people. He demanded, from an old birthright, the privilege of sleeping with their brides before the husbands were permitted. Sometimes he pushed his people half to death with work rebuilding uruk’s walls and then without explanation let the walls goa unattended and decay. ( Mason,p5-6) You can see that he especially does not recognize nor care about human life. He has no concept of death or suffering. Gilgamesh Will push people “half to death”, working them out, violate sanctities of marriages, simply because he can, and because he does not have any morality. What suffering does for him, especially as his suffering comes from something loves and lost, he is made more human and made a better person by feeling the effects of death and loss. He then understands mortality and humanity in general, and then applies that to his life, becoming more moral and a better person. On pages 45-46, it reads” ...for the heart has changed and the soul has been converted to a thing that
Together, they complete each other and change each other significantly. Thy fight together, drink together, are are close as brothers. Yet when Enkidu dies, Gilgamesh is thrown into a deep sadness and goes on a quest to bring him back to life. Gilgamesh suffers without his friend, because his friend grew to be such a part of him. On page 53 it says “ GIlgamesh wept Sometimes I act a lot older than I am – I really do – but people never notice it. People never notice anything.bitterly for his friend. He felt himself now singled out for loss apart from everybody else.” From this quote you can see how much he suffers- “ weeping bitterly” and f”feeling singled out” for an especial sadness and hardship. His suffering is a cute,and it changes him greatly. At the beginning of the story, the people of uruk suffer under his rule:”as king, Gilgamesh was a tyrant to his people. He demanded, from an old birthright, the privilege of sleeping with their brides before the husbands were permitted. Sometimes he pushed his people half to death with work rebuilding uruk’s walls and then without explanation let the walls goa unattended and decay. ( Mason,p5-6) You can see that he especially does not recognize nor care about human life. He has no concept of death or suffering. Gilgamesh Will push people “half to death”, working them out, violate sanctities of marriages, simply because he can, and because he does not have any morality. What suffering does for him, especially as his suffering comes from something loves and lost, he is made more human and made a better person by feeling the effects of death and loss. He then understands mortality and humanity in general, and then applies that to his life, becoming more moral and a better person. On pages 45-46, it reads” ...for the heart has changed and the soul has been converted to a thing that