When we see Enkidu and Gilgamesh react to nature we see two opposite sides, as we soon come to later see a joint between their feelings towards nature. At first we can sort Enkidu as a Leaver in the terms we used while reading Ishmael, he lives and interact with nature and it's creatures, at the same time we see Gilgamesh as a Taker he is accustomed to living in the city and is afraid of nature and its creature that’s why Uruk has a wall. When Gilgamesh and Enkidu meat each other things start to change, they learn from each other Gilgamesh comprehends better nature and now see that their nothing to be scared of, even thought his Taker ignorance and fear take hold of him like in the cedar forest. Enkidu instead becomes more human than animal, he thinks he can punish those who have done wrong, we see this when he proposes the journey to the Cedar forest to defeat Huwawa.
Enkidu like the rest of the human race think we are the ones who decides who shall will live and shall will die, and in this case I think the gods came to prove a point when they decided who should like or die between Enkidu and Gilgamesh, they came to remind them that the gods are the ones who decide not them. When we see Enkidu die we see how all that ego and self confidence that Gilgamesh had slips away with Enkidu to the Netherland, we see how Gilgamesh reacts with a nervous breakdown and fear towards Enkidu death and the awareness that he doesn’t chooses who lives and who dies.
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Although, I like your thoughts here you did not use text.
Please avoid using the semi-colon. You are creating sentence monsters. Try keeping it simple.:)
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Enkidu instead becomes more human than animal, he thinks he can punish those who have done wrong; we see him being like this when he proposes the journey to the Cedar forest to defeat Huwawa.
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