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In five pages this paper examines how Enkidu’s death represents a moment of epiphany for King Gilgamesh. Four sources are listed in the bibliography.
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more than a collection of buildings and an assemblage of people that existed only for the monarchs pleasure. The strong protagonist of Epic of Gilgamesh is described in Tablet
I as a "raging flood-wave who destroys even walls of stone!" (33) His selfishness and foul temper were legendary, but hardly the stuff of legends. Gilgamesh needed a
serious reality check, which he received in the person of Enkidu. He was the antithesis of the King - primitive rather than cultured; a creature of nature, not a
man of civilization; strong and patient, not powerful and impatient. Being bested gave Gilgamesh a respect for Enkidu that deepened over time. When Enkidu became gravely ill, Gilgamesh
maintained a constant vigil. The death of his friend plunged Gilgamesh into a grief he had never known. As humans must, Gilgamesh sought to rationalize Enkidus suffering and
for the first time was confronted by an emotion that was foreign to him - fear. In that moment, Gilgamesh had an epiphany that would take him on a
journey of self-discovery. Gilgamesh declared in Tablet IX: "I am going to die!--am I not like Enkidu?! Deep sadness penetrates my core, I fear death, and now roam the
wilderness-- I will set out to the region of Utanapishtim, son of Ubartutu, and will go with utmost dispatch! When I arrived at mountain passes at nightfall, I saw lions,
and I was terrified! I raised my head in prayer to Sin, to . . . the Great Lady of the gods my supplications poured forth, Save me from .
. . !" (3-9) A literary epiphany has been defined as "a moment that is felt to be expansive, mysterious, and intense... transcends its momentariness either by transforming the
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