1. What is the relationship between human beings and their deities? The relationship between human beings and their deities that they are always close to each other guiding and they deities are no powerful. 2. How is Gilgamesh linked with the world of nature and animals? Gilgamesh is linked with the world of nature and animals when Utnapishtim wife tell him about the miraculous plant that restores youth, and the snake steals the plant. Also is linked with the story of the flood from its sole survivor. 3. What is the meaning of friendship, family, and public duty? Friendship is when two people become friends showing concern, comfort, support, help to each other as Gilgamesh choose friendship with Enkidu rather than the love offered by the goddess Ishtar. Family is a group of persons who form a household under one head. And finally public duty link between a person and a state as …show more content…
What caused Gilgamesh live to want immortality? Gilgamesh wants immortality because he is afraid of dying, due to the death of his friend Enkidu. 5. What tests did Gilgamesh face throughout his life? He was tested unconsciously that death cannot be avoided. That he has to take his responsibilities and the things he doesn’t like of life, no matter what you do to avoid them in some point you have to deal with it. The deeps humans do on earth are the measure of their immortality and that death is inevitable. 6. How does this epic inform the reader about ancient history? The surviving epics, tales and legends that offer glimpses into the Mesopotamian mind. The Gilgamesh epic stands favorably compared with later Greek and Roman epics. 7. Which story has a parallel version in the Old Testament? When Utnapishtim tells the story of the flood from its sole survivor, how he built an ark and loaded it with animals and family, how the water rose, and how he release birds from the ark to discover if the waters were receding. 8. How does Gilgamesh attempt to become immortal? Why is he not