What happens when you do something wrong and someone else pays for it? As I read Gilgamesh I thought of how unfair life was in the past. In the tablets 5 and 6 Gilgamesh kills the bull form the heavens so the gods decide to punish him by killing Enkidu. How is this fair? In a way they do punish Gilgamesh by killing his brother and his companion but we read that Enkidu didn’t do anything at all, so why? Gilgamesh is described as the prefect man the king the god, the wild ox, and Enkidu was his double, but Gilgamesh is needed but the humans as said by the gods because he is thier salvation thier way of knowledge. Though in some way Gilgamesh sufferes allot since they just took his brothere imagine how would you feel if they did that to you? I think is worse than killing him because now he has to live with guilt that because his actions, got his companion death.
Many thought also came up is how someone can make such an impact in your life. Enkidu was not so long in Gilgamesh life but still Gilgamesh made a sculpture in his honor. People, have a way to make you learn things of them so in a way I think that, this is the purpose of Gilgamesh, to make you realize of many things. i am enjoying so much gilgamesh right now that i have learned so much. Gilgamesh for me is not only a way to learn about how to write epic but we also learn about the history the past the gods. is that the character of gilgamesh gives you so many teachings that i think is important to realy read careful what is written.
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
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