Compare And Contrast The Epic Of Gilgamesh

The Epic of Gilgamesh is the oldest written story in human history that has survived since the third millennium BCE. The Epic of Gilgamesh is an ancient Mesopotamian poem of telling a story about the epic adventures of a man named Gilgamesh, who is the King of Uruk, and his companion Enkidu. The word meaning of Mesopotamia means the “land between the rivers” in ancient Greek language and the location of Mesopotamia is land near between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers which in present-day are across in countries of most of Iraq, Kuwait, and Eastern part of Syria. Mesopotamia was place where the human beings began to develop cities, animal domestication, and other important developments that started for the first time in human history. The Epic …show more content…
Gilgamesh and Enkidu were best friends because both have powerful and restless energies of having adventures of going on to journeys of fighting great beasts which led for the attachment of Gilgamesh emotions toward Enkidu. As a result, Gilgamesh was emotional distress when Enkidu died. Gilgamesh was fearful of facing death, because he does not want to die. Death was something that humans cannot avoid and has affected Gilgamesh in the quest for finding out on how to live forever. Gilgamesh came to realized that death was not avoidable when tried a test of trying to stay awake for a week. Gilgamesh went back to Uruk and tried to enjoy his mortal life until the day he dies. Humans die, but humanity can live on for generations to come as what the lessons that Gilgamesh has learned from his journey to seek immortality. The religions in Mesopotamia were mostly to explain of the concepts of afterlife in which there is life after someone has died from Earth can go to the spiritual world or somewhere that continues on their existence. Human beings expressed sympathy to the dead because they know that their destiny will soon be with them as well as what Gilgamesh expressed to