What Is The Father Son Relationship In Gilgamesh

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GILGAMESH:
In the epic story of Gilgamesh, the friendship between King, Gilgamesh, and his companion, Enkidu, is a example of true friendship. Before the friendship of Gilgamesh and Enkidu, Gilgamesh was a man of raw and abuse. He had a boastful attitude and arrogance, and he was equally excessive abusive of his power. It was this abuse in power which led his city, Uruk, into an overwhelming state of rage and injustice. At the moment they meet, neither Enkidu nor Gilgamesh would 've thought the person they were fighting would become their best friend and `brother '. Within their first meeting, Enkidu and Gilgamesh challenge each other by blocking one another 's path in the street in a demonstration of each other 's stubbornness. After their …show more content…

They stick up for each other and support one another. whether they have known each other for a long time or have just met, fathers and sons feel obligated to protect each other. Telemachus was the son of Odysseus and Penelope. The father pretended to be insane in order to avoid going to the Trojan War. Palamedes placed Telemachus in front of a plow, and Odysseus revealed his sanity by swerving to avoid injuring the child. When Odysseus had been absent for twenty years, and Penelope was being urged to marry one of the insolent and unruly suitors who infested their home, Athene prompted the hesitant and diffident Telemachus to stand up to the suitors and order them to leave. Odysseus heard all the suitors devouring Telemachus 's future fortune and mistreating him, he wanted to return and revenge the misuse of his family and property.Telemachus after being persuaded by athena, risks his life to sail around the world in search to find anything about his father or where he could be. By the time Telemachus got back to Ithaca, he was a much more self-confident and assertive young man. He proved his maturity when he joined Odysseus in slaughtering the suitors and then standing up to their outraged relatives in the final scene of the Odyssey. Telemachus had a healthy respect for his father and their relationship was a good one in the Greek society, …show more content…

A strong relationship in this play was the relationship between Hamlet and Horatio. There are many ways to interpret Hamlet 's relationship with Horatio. Most obviously, Horatio is the only person in the play that Hamlet trusts. He is the only one who knows for certain that Hamlet 's madness is an act, the one person Hamlet confides in personally, and the one whom bids Hamlet goodnight upon his death. Considering his conflicts with his family, Horatio is the only "family" Hamlet has. He understands that Horatio is very rational and thoughtful, yet not overly pensieve like himself. As the play continues, Horatio questions Hamlet 's judgment twice. Once is when Hamlet tells him of a letter from King Claudius that he has found in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern 's pack, telling the King of England that he must have Hamlet killed. The second instance is when Hamlet tells Horatio that he will fight Laertes, son of Polonius, who Hamlet killed earlier in the play. Horatio loves Hamlet with all his heart, but he is directed by a more sensible disposition, which makes him to speak the truth to Hamlet, despite the fact that Hamlet never once takes Horatio 's warnings. In fact, there is only a single point in the play at which Horatio loses his sensible outlook, and it is but a momentary loss. At the end of the play, when Hamlet is killed in his fight with Laertes, Horatio, in his grief, offers to kill himself with his own sword. It is

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