Topic > Heroism in the Epic of Gilgamesh - 932

Heroism in GilgameshHeroism implies several things; a selfless act, courage, or results of bold and daring expeditions. A hero can often be of divine origin. But every hero has defects and these defects together with heroic deeds make the man, or the woman; a hero. Gilgamesh loved his friend Enkidu more than he loved himself. A phrase indicating this love for Enkidu is found on page 35: "We must go down into the forest together./. . .I will go before you/And...... in the center of the paper......h the quality heroic and non-heroic in different ways. In the end we are all the same, we have no choice, we all have to deal with Gilgamesh.Work CitedSandars NK The Epic of Gilgamesh New York: Penguin Books, 1972.