Human Response Essay's The Epic Of Gilgamesh

The Epic of Gilgamesh, which is a Mesopotamia epic poem without an author, is the story about the priest-king of Uruk around 2700 B.C.E, Gilgamesh. It was one of the pieces of the world literature lasted an extended period of popularity and was translated into various regional languages during the second-millennium B.C.E (Gilgamesh 950). It provides insight into the human concerns of people include death and friendship, nature and civilization, power and violence, travel adventures and homecoming, love and sexuality (Gilgamesh 95). However, some of the people found and read this book because of the reason that they are curious about death, dying, and the afterlife.
Through the poem “The Epic of Gilgamesh”, the king-hero Gilgamesh is perfect

in strength (100) and appears “two-thirds divine and one-third human” (95). His companion Enkidu, who is a civilized wild man, is a blend of human and wild animal (96). Their friendship established, in the first half of the Epic, Gilgamesh meets Enkidu and both of them defeat of giant Humbaba in the Cedar Forest and the Bull of Heaven (97). After their victory, the gods sentence Enkidu to death. The second half of the epic, Gilgamesh pursues the first immortal secret in the garden of the gods and Utnapishtim, Mesopotamian, who are narrated his story of survival in the great floods that devastated humanity (98). Although Gilgamesh did not attain eternal life, he ended his journey as a wise man and celebrated the ruler.
The main of the poem of the Epic of Gilgamesh is human response to death.

Death is an inevitable and unavoidable reality of human life, which is Gilgamesh’s greatest lesson learned. Gilgamesh is bitter that only the gods can live forever and say a lot when Enkidu warns him against their battle with Humbaba. Gilgamesh and Enkidu tell each other on their way to the deadly confrontation in the Cedar Forest, and the only thing that they have is their fame. But when Enkidu is cursed with a shameful, painful death. Shamash, who is the son god, solaces Enkidu reminding him of his rich life has been, but although Enkidu eventually resigned himself to his fate, Gilgamesh is scared by his own. Mesopotamian theology gives a perspective on the afterlife, but it shows comfort, the dead take the time to die. If Gilgamesh's mission to the Cedar Forest though he dies, his second task is to get Utnapishtim a way to escape from it. Utnapishtim's account of the floods shows how ridiculous such a goal is, because death is an inseparable combination of fabric of creation. But life is also adorned, and although man dies, mankind continues to live. The lesson that Gilgamesh made from his search was not the last of death, it was about life.
Of course, building the city and housing are considered one of the greatest accomplishments. It is no surprise that the walls of Uruk are considered a worthy symbol of Gilgamesh's immortality. This achievement has affected everyone, everywhere, it seems. There is no special advantage in the Epic of Gilgamesh to maintain a more 'natural' nature, this will not create

immortality.
The Epic of Gilgamesh is not just curious archeology. Despite its numerous shortcoming and deficiencies, its amazing theory of creating the universe, Gilgamesh’s story is very powerful and compelling. An interesting adventure that celebrates kinship between men, what it takes to pay for civilization and questions the worthy role of a king and it both acknowledge and consider the attraction of worldly fame. Most of all, Gilgamesh describes the current struggles of a powerful and sublime man who must reconcile with his mortality and find meaning in his life despite the inevitableness of his death.