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A 3 page paper which examines the roles of women in David Ferry’s Gilgamesh. No additional sources cited.
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a story about a great and powerful man who is perhaps debatable as a hero, it is also a story of other things such as social customs, political struggles, and
issues of gender. The following paper examines the role of women in this classic tale as presented by David Ferry. Women in David Ferrys Gilgamesh In looking how
women are presented in this particular work, and what their role is in the story, one can perhaps begin that study by understanding the type of man that Gilgamesh was
in the beginning of the tale. In the beginning of this tale Gilgamesh is essentially seen as a burden and an enemy, perhaps, of the people he leads. The people
plead to the goddess Azuru, insisting that, "Neither the fathers son nor the wife of the noble is safe in Uruk; neither the mothers daughter nor the warriors bride is
safe" (5). When noting that the women were not safe indicates that Gilgamesh was a man who felt he could take any woman as his own, for his own pleasure,
without concern for who she was, or who she may have belonged to. This suggests that women, for the most part, were considered the possession of men and that their
primary role was that of sexual object. But, at the same time it also illustrates that men did not like sharing their women with another man, another way of seeing
them as property. At the same time the people did call upon a goddess, not a god, and this illustrates that women were likely seen as very mysterious and
powerful in their own way. Such a presence would indicate that the society of the time believed that women were powerful, to be feared perhaps, but clearly possessed of
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