The search of some one who you love is a search that most of all humans do. It is a very hard search and once done people don't want to separate from there loved ones. In the example of Gilgamesh and Enkidu they are very good friends and when one dies the other feels very bad. "Gilgamesh weeping mourned for Enkidu."(pg 44) The opposite is the feeling of a person who finds his loved one after many years of looking for him. This is how Gilgamesh feels after seeing Enkidu. "The spirit of Enkidu, a puff o breath, came forth from the nether world into the Upper. Then Gilgamesh and Enkidu, companions, tried to embrace and kiss one an other, companions."(pg 90) This is how some people salute the people they love.
Gilgamesh vs. nature
During the book we can see how Gilgamesh is constantly in a fight with nature. The want of people to conquer nature leads them to kill many parts of nature. In this story one enemy of Gilgamesh is the cedar forest and its guardian or demon which represent nature. "Then the two of them together seized the demon and by the tongue pulled all the insides out."(pg 28) We can also see that nature is used for the creations of humans and their buildings. "Then Gilgamesh built the gate made from the cedar taller than all the rest of the cedar trees that grew in the cedar forest. They built a raft and floated the gate to the city."(pg 28) At last we can see how the innocence of nature is seen wrongly by humans. They may be scared of it, and so feeling better than it. "Enkidu, now you are as beautiful as a god, why do you seek the company of beasts?"(pg 9) This is how in the story of Gilgamesh nature is used and conquered by men.
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You could have gone much further with your response to the last Tablet of Gilgamesh.
As for nature, don't they change by the end of the epic?
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