Ishtar

According to the American actor who plays the heroic character Superman, Christopher Reeve, “A hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to preserve and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.” Being called a hero is the biggest compliment someone could receive. It takes a special person to be considered to join the list of heroes. The character Gilgamesh has traits of a typical hero and should be recognized as one. One reason Gilgamesh should be in the typical heroic rank is…

Friendship. It’s only a mere word, but it is a complex relationship that continues to develop and grow overtime. Enkidu and Gilgamesh, are two people who you could never picture to be friends, however, their friendship is a very dynamic one. Enkidu becomes Gilgamesh’s compliment; a person to balance him out, and in a way is a realization to Gilgamesh that he is not the only person with extreme power. In the Epic of Gilgamesh, we see Gilgamesh as a person of arrogance, lacking morality…

The Epic of Gilgamesh and The Iliad share some unifying features’ in their literary traits in its’ genre. These literary features are seen in the, religion, fictitious historic events, style it was written and heroes’ character. Even though, these two poems were made in different time periods, they have a certain parallel feature in the way that both poems talked about human emotions mixed with divine intuition. In both poems both heroes are the product of divine sovereignty. Both heroes…

Giorgio A. Tsoukalos once famously said, “Knowledge is the currency of the universe.” Knowledge is a strong tool that has been utilized by humans for centuries. Foresight and awareness can give the most physically weak men unlimited power within society. Three texts by William Golding, Mark Haddon, and Emma Donoghue illustrate this theme through the actions taken by their characters in undesirable situations. Through these struggles it is understood that knowledge of the truth in a situation…

Enkidu: Gilgamesh’s Double Who was Gilgamesh, really? While he may have been known to build Uruk and knew the most of all men know, his real character was not always like that. This is where Enkidu comes in. Enkidu, made to be Gilgamesh’s “double” (Gilg., p.5), pulls out the hero in Gilgamesh and leads him on the path to becoming a hero. Enkidu was the example of the hero Gilgamesh was to become and therefore acted as Gilgamesh’s double in that he represents Gilgamesh’s final state. To get…

In the Star Wars saga, Darth Vader begins as a child: innocent and curious. Anakin Skywalker, who later becomes Vader, shows high levels of immaturity in dealing with the conflicts that come his way. When Mace Windu and Yoda allow Anakin onto the Jedi Council, but do not give him the rank of Master, he proclaims the wrongdoing in this course of action. In the end, Darth Vader matures and helps his son defeat the Emperor, despite all of the atrocious deeds he has done in the name of the Empire.…

Praise Before there was King David, there was King Saul and his son Jonathan. Although Saul had his flaws, as we all do, he had been a mighty warrior and defender of the Israelites. He lived in a time when the Philistine city states on the Gaza plain were subjugating the Israelites who lived in the hills. The book of Judges is full of Philistines running roughshod over the Israelites, and part of the initial success was their iron age weaponry. The Israelites were still in the bronze age,…

Gilgamesh was god and one-third man and he was the 5th king of Urke. In Uruk, a city set between the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers. And their kings represented the will of the gods. Even though Gilgamesh was required to involve others so they could figure the interpretation of the gods’ will. As a king, Gilgamesh had to patron and guide his people but he was despot and masterful. as a result of his actions, “ his lust leaves no virgin to her lover, neither the warrior’s daughters nor the…

The Star Trek episode “The Empath”, season 3 episode 12, begins as most all Star Trek shows do; Captain James Tiberius Kirk (Jim), played by William Shatner providing an abbreviated log of events. “Captains log: Star date 5121.5. Orbiting the second planet in the Maniarian star system. This star has long given evidence of entering a nova phase and 6 months ago a research station was established to make close up studies of the star as the end approaches” (Star). The topic of this show is that two…

The famous medieval historical character Merlin is misrepresented in the film Excalibur. In the film, Merlin is perceived as a younger man who is unblemished and acts as a comic relief character. This sharply contrasts with the semblance of Merlin created in both The History of the Kings of Britain by Geoffrey of Monmouth and Le Morte d’Arthur by Thomas Malory. As examined by Geoffrey of Monmouth, Merlin was a young man during the reign of Vortigern; at least two generations before Arthur…