Gilgamesh is a book that is very complex and can be hard to understand due to the tone it uses. There are many parallels with this book and the bible. In both a god created man out of mud. Also it was woman who tempted man in both cases. (Whether it was life or lost or whatever the bible meant it’s according to one’s interpretation.) This might be that the bible and the other religions could be different perspectives to the same story. What actually happened in that time is a mystery and always will be. All we rely on are what our religion tells us happened and therefore we only see the past under one single perspective.
“They called the goddess Aruru, saying to her: “You made this man. Now create another. Create his double and let the two contend. Let stormy heart contend with stormy heart that peace may come to Uruk once again.””(p.5)
Here we can see that there is always our quest for balance. For everything there must be an equal and opposite reaction. For Gilgamesh it was Enkidu. This quest for balance is always there present in our civilization as well. For a bad action there is an equal punishment, as well as there is an equal prize for those who do well. There are faults in this system we still follow it and believe that although the universe isn’t this way it should be. As Ishmael said we believe that we are to rule the world and that we know what is good and evil. Because of this we believe we can make balance happen the way we want.
Gilgamesh seems to represent good in this story. He is there to fight evil in the world that surrounds the city. This of course is seen from a taker’s point of view. Yet ofcourse the wild man seemed to be a leaver that was made into a taker because it was the right way to live and he was forced to become one in some way. Maybe Enkidu was there to balance the equation but not as the exact opposite of Gilgamesh.(being evil and attempting to kill his opposite). Infect it was rather curious to see them be so similar as if two brothers (which they were). If Enkidu was there to bring order back to Uruk or balance the equation in some way, why did he join the same purpose of Gilgamesh? Shouldn’t he have been trying to stop him? If the city was so good before Enkidu why was he needed to bring peace here?
“They called the goddess Aruru, saying to her: “You made this man. Now create another. Create his double and let the two contend. Let stormy heart contend with stormy heart that peace may come to Uruk once again.””(p.5)
Here we can see that there is always our quest for balance. For everything there must be an equal and opposite reaction. For Gilgamesh it was Enkidu. This quest for balance is always there present in our civilization as well. For a bad action there is an equal punishment, as well as there is an equal prize for those who do well. There are faults in this system we still follow it and believe that although the universe isn’t this way it should be. As Ishmael said we believe that we are to rule the world and that we know what is good and evil. Because of this we believe we can make balance happen the way we want.
Gilgamesh seems to represent good in this story. He is there to fight evil in the world that surrounds the city. This of course is seen from a taker’s point of view. Yet ofcourse the wild man seemed to be a leaver that was made into a taker because it was the right way to live and he was forced to become one in some way. Maybe Enkidu was there to balance the equation but not as the exact opposite of Gilgamesh.(being evil and attempting to kill his opposite). Infect it was rather curious to see them be so similar as if two brothers (which they were). If Enkidu was there to bring order back to Uruk or balance the equation in some way, why did he join the same purpose of Gilgamesh? Shouldn’t he have been trying to stop him? If the city was so good before Enkidu why was he needed to bring peace here?
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This is a good deep interpretation. Can you prove that Gilgamesh is good? Is he good by Christian standards?
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