The Hero’s Journeys of Marlin and Gilgamesh
How alike can the story about a lost clownfish and the King of Uruk be? Well, the story of Finding Nemo and The Epic of Gilgamesh prove to be more alike than one might originally ponder. The Epic of Gilgamesh is a 4000-year-old epic poem about the king of Uruk, named Gilgamesh, who meets a companion that matches his strength named Enkidu. Meanwhile, Finding Nemo is a story about two clownfish named Marlin and Nemo, father and son, who get separated on Nemo’s first day of school, when Nemo gets taken away by a fisherman.
--Good thesis here--
The first step in the journey of The Epic of Gilgamesh and Finding Nemo that is shared between the two is a very easy step to identify; the ordinary world. …show more content…
No son is left with his father, for Gilgamesh takes them all, even the children; yet the kind should be a shepherd to his people.”(62, Gilgamesh). This passage illustrates how awful of a kind Gilgamesh was, and also how fed up with him the townspeople were. This is the origin of Gilgamesh essentially and shows a benchmark for his development throughout his hero’s journey.In Finding Nemo, Marlin exhibits his overprotectiveness towards Nemo very openly, for instance, when Nemo was ready for his first school day, “‘First day of school, here we go. We're ready to learn to get some knowledge. Now, what's the one thing we have to remember about the ocean?’‘It’s not safe’‘That's my boy. So, first we check to see that the coast is clear.” This implies the overprotectiveness of Marlin …show more content…
In the Epic of Gilgamesh, this is seen after Gilgamesh obtains the flower that will save him from mortality, “but deep in the pool there was lying a serpent, and the serpent sensed the sweetness of the flower. It rose out of the water and snatched it away...Then Gilgamesh sat down and wept.”(117, Gilgamesh).This presents Gilgamesh’s realization that death is equal among all humans, therefore marking the end of his journey. Meanwhile, Finding Nemo at first seems that it ends on more of a happy note, when Nemo reunites with his dad after escaping from the dentist, however, that changes when a fishing net comes down and a school of fish is trapped in it. This is the moment that the whole movie leads up to, since the call to action. This scene expresses the feeling that everything is going to be okay, and they their adventure has come to a close. However, that sense of relief turns to be false when Marlin fears of losing Nemo once again. Marlin and Gilgamesh both reveal a sense of grief in their return when the something that they so desired was taken away before their very eyes again.
In these two very different stories, a surprising amount of similarities can be found if you search in the right places. The Epic of Gilgamesh and Finding Nemo both share many similar stages of the hero’s journey, though the ones that stood out are the ordinary world, the call to action,
How alike can the story about a lost clownfish and the King of Uruk be? Well, the story of Finding Nemo and The Epic of Gilgamesh prove to be more alike than one might originally ponder. The Epic of Gilgamesh is a 4000-year-old epic poem about the king of Uruk, named Gilgamesh, who meets a companion that matches his strength named Enkidu. Meanwhile, Finding Nemo is a story about two clownfish named Marlin and Nemo, father and son, who get separated on Nemo’s first day of school, when Nemo gets taken away by a fisherman.
--Good thesis here--
The first step in the journey of The Epic of Gilgamesh and Finding Nemo that is shared between the two is a very easy step to identify; the ordinary world. …show more content…
No son is left with his father, for Gilgamesh takes them all, even the children; yet the kind should be a shepherd to his people.”(62, Gilgamesh). This passage illustrates how awful of a kind Gilgamesh was, and also how fed up with him the townspeople were. This is the origin of Gilgamesh essentially and shows a benchmark for his development throughout his hero’s journey.In Finding Nemo, Marlin exhibits his overprotectiveness towards Nemo very openly, for instance, when Nemo was ready for his first school day, “‘First day of school, here we go. We're ready to learn to get some knowledge. Now, what's the one thing we have to remember about the ocean?’‘It’s not safe’‘That's my boy. So, first we check to see that the coast is clear.” This implies the overprotectiveness of Marlin …show more content…
In the Epic of Gilgamesh, this is seen after Gilgamesh obtains the flower that will save him from mortality, “but deep in the pool there was lying a serpent, and the serpent sensed the sweetness of the flower. It rose out of the water and snatched it away...Then Gilgamesh sat down and wept.”(117, Gilgamesh).This presents Gilgamesh’s realization that death is equal among all humans, therefore marking the end of his journey. Meanwhile, Finding Nemo at first seems that it ends on more of a happy note, when Nemo reunites with his dad after escaping from the dentist, however, that changes when a fishing net comes down and a school of fish is trapped in it. This is the moment that the whole movie leads up to, since the call to action. This scene expresses the feeling that everything is going to be okay, and they their adventure has come to a close. However, that sense of relief turns to be false when Marlin fears of losing Nemo once again. Marlin and Gilgamesh both reveal a sense of grief in their return when the something that they so desired was taken away before their very eyes again.
In these two very different stories, a surprising amount of similarities can be found if you search in the right places. The Epic of Gilgamesh and Finding Nemo both share many similar stages of the hero’s journey, though the ones that stood out are the ordinary world, the call to action,