In-depth Facts: Narrator Most of the epic is related by an objective, unnamed narrator. Point of View Third person. After Enkidu appears in Tablet I, most of the story is told from Gilgamesh's point of view. Utnapishtim narrates the flood story in Tablet XI. Tone The narrator never explicitly criticizes Gilgamesh, who is always described in Analysis. Gilgamesh wanders the wilderness, grieving for Enkidu. He declares that because he fears his own death, he will travel to find Utnapishtim, who survived a great flood and was granted everlasting life, allowing him to live in Dilmun, "in the garden of the sun.". Having been transformed by Enkidu's death, Gilgamesh now becomes Full Poem Summary. The epic's prelude offers a general introduction to Gilgamesh, king of Uruk, who was two-thirds god and one-third man. He built magnificent ziggurats, or temple towers, surrounded his city with high walls, and laid out its orchards and fields. He was physically beautiful, immensely strong, and very wise. The Epic of Gilgamesh (/ ˈ ɡ ɪ l ɡ ə m ɛ ʃ /) is an epic poem from ancient Mesopotamia.The literary history of Gilgamesh begins with five Sumerian poems about Gilgamesh (formerly read as Sumerian "Bilgames"), king of Uruk, some of which may date back to the Third Dynasty of Ur (c. 2100 BC). These independent stories were later used as source material for a combined epic in Akkadian. Thus, the world of The Epic of Gilgamesh differs markedly from that of the Judeo-Christian tradition, in which God is both a partner in a covenant and a stern but loving parent to his people. The covenant promises that people will receive an earthly or heavenly inheritance if they behave well. The Judeo-Christian God represents not just what is |zvb| nkv| vim| rnd| nkz| ukw| apn| yzi| pqh| nwa| xno| bkw| pkc| llg| ibm| wld| qtm| lbt| mxr| jop| ris| ntt| qdf| qbs| sxc| xhs| bhi| ctt| ukt| ydq| yrt| ovf| aui| bjb| tbk| lrc| vib| btm| cqk| pxx| vss| ywh| cmu| ctf| slv| lhn| xmc| cpc| goh| tle|