The Search For Immortality In Gilgamesh Essay — страница 2

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a pool to refresh himself. When he is in the pool bathing, a snake eats the supple plant and sheds his skin; when Gilgamesh emerges he is once again devastated, this time possibly the most. When we last see Gilgamesh trodding back to his once great city of Uruk, he is a changed man. He is now wise, knowing, compassionate, and true. He understands the preciousness of life. He asks a blind man, ?Have you ever heard the name Enkidu?? The man does not know the name. Gilgamesh looks at the city that he has built and is, almost, content. So, in Gilgamesh?s case, the end of grief and his search for immortality were one and the same, and they both came with loss, understanding, and success.