1. What is Gilgamesh’s greatest achievement? 2. What does this story say about the connection between love and friendship? 3. In what ways, if any, does Gilgamesh mature in this story? 4. What role or roles in the story do the women characters play? 5. What does Gilgamesh learn from Utnapishtim?
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Holli Heinen
1/28/2016 01:44:52 pm
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Kadence Lanier
1/28/2016 01:52:08 pm
1. Gilgamesh's greatest achievement was the construction of the massive city walls around Uruk. He turned the city into a fortress and made it safe from outsiders, even if it wasn't exactly safe on the inside.
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Connor Steiger
1/29/2016 05:28:25 pm
1. Gilgamesh's greatest achievement is the construction of the wall surrounding Uruk. This wall protected the insiders from outsiders intruding. 2. The connection between love and friendship is that you need to love that person to be good friends. The fighting lead them to become good friends. 3. In the beginning Gilgamesh is a horrible tyrant and abuses women forcing them to have sex with him. Gilgamesh has trouble with the power and the people pray for help to overpower Gilgamesh which is when Enkidu comes into play by the end they are friends.4. Women in the story are used for sex, they were used as prostitutes essentially. 5. Gilgamesh realizes that the world does not revolve around him.There are more important things in the world besides him and he eventually realizes that he is not immortal and is meant to die as a mortal.
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Dallas Evernden
1/29/2016 10:49:50 pm
1. Gilgamesh's greatest achievement was the building and shaping of the city of Uruk. When explaining Uruk to Urshanabi, Gilgamesh speaks of the "three parts and the precinct that are Uruk" (23). After the snake/serpent incident, Gilgamesh wanted nothing more than to show Urshanabi his city. He was proud of it, it was his best accomplishment. It was really his only accomplishment because it seemed to him that he was failing at everything, especially after the serpent stealing the plant.
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Taylor Briann Holden
1/30/2016 12:24:19 am
1) Gilgamesh's greatest achievement was the wall and beautiful city that he built.
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Emily Groseclose
1/30/2016 11:22:57 am
1. Gilgamesh's greatest achievement was the wall that he built to protect his city, Uruk. 2. Gilgamesh's connection to Enkidu shows that friends can be family even if they're not related by blood. They refer to each other as a brother when they're not actually related, though the connection they have with each other feels like a brotherly connection. This expression of their connection through calling each other "brother" shows their love of one another while also portraying the connection between love and friendship. 3. At the beginning of the story, Gilgamesh was a cocky big man that took advantage of the fact that he was 2/3 god to dictate the city of Uruk. However, meeting Enkidu and bonding with him made him a little more sympathetic and feel-y. When Enkidu died, Gilgamesh grieved like he never would have for anyone if they had never met and made each other better. Gilgamesh grew as a person and not just as a ruler. 4. The three main women in the story are Ninurta, Ishtar, and the harlot. Ninurta is the motherly role because she is Gilgamesh's mother. She gives Gilgamesh and Enkidu advice and they worship and respect her greatly. Ishtar is the goddess of love and fertility and war. She is also called the Queen of Heaven. Her role in the story portrays a whore that will pretty much ruin you if you reject her. The harlot was used to tame Enkidu and take him to Gilgamesh. Her role is kind of like a friend, but also a mentor. She guides Enkidu and sticks by his side to take care of him. She is not a motherly figure, exactly, but someone that is always there. There is no one role for women as a whole, but there are many different roles. Although Gilgamesh does take advantage of the women in Uruk, these women do not represent all women in the story. Women are not viewed as objects, but as whatever they portray themselves to be. 5. Utnapishtim teaches Gilgamesh that immortality is not what he wants. He actually kind of tells Gilgamesh that he is being ridiculous and that he needs to take care of himself and think rationally. Utnapishtim also teaches Gilgamesh that he is not the center of the universe and that he needs to think not only of himself.
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Samantha Schroeder
1/30/2016 11:41:11 am
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Layne Harris
1/30/2016 09:22:17 pm
1. What is Gilgamesh’s greatest achievement?
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Lucas Lysne
1/31/2016 11:06:22 pm
1. I believe that Gilgamesh’s greatest achievement is his permanence in time due to his great achievements. Sure, he was amongst the best and greatest men to have lived in his time, who bested nature in man and in the forest, defied the gods and killed the bull of heaven, journeyed to the end of the world and back, and built the great walls and temples of his great city Uruk, but these on their own were not his greatest achievements. His greatest achievement was his great life and living that no man shall forget, as his name is stamped in the brick.
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Jarred Kasper
2/1/2016 08:54:10 am
1. Gilgamesh’s greatest achievement was the wall that he constructed that surrounded Uruk, the wall was used to protect the town from the outsiders.
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Kylee Sneve
2/1/2016 11:40:47 am
1. Gilgamesh’s greatest achievement is how he constructed the beautiful town of Uruk. Even though it wasn’t necessarily safe on the inside, he made the town so they would be protected.
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allen longstreet
2/26/2016 10:46:48 pm
#1. The construction of the wall around Uruk was the Gilgamesh greatest achievement. The wall was created to keep the insiders in and the outsiders out. #2. To get a connection between love and friendship is that you need to be good friends with the person and get to know them and have a long relationship and then love will come on it's own. You can get to be friends in many different ways. #3. Gilgamesh is a horrible tyrant that abuses women and make them have sex with him without their say. The people of that community prayed for a power strong enough to overpower the Gilgamesh. There prayer had come true Ediku was his name and he came into the play and made peace with the Gilgamesh and became good friends at the end of the play. #4 The women were the big prostitutes in the story and seems like there were a lot more back then, then there is now. #5 The Gilgamesh realizes that everything isn’t just about himself and realizes that there are a lot more important things going on that doesn't revolve around himself. He come to realize that he won’t be living for eternity and he will be dying as a mortal when his time comes.
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