History 8 Gilgamesh questions
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Power of the King is absolute
1. How does Gilgamesh use the power of the king?
Man vs. Nature
3. Why does Enkidu lose the ability to understand and roam with the animals?
The Cedar Forest
4. What does this section tell us about man's relationship with nature?
5.Should Gilgamesh and Enkidu spare the demon or kill it? Why?
6..What does the Demon represent?
Conflict between political rule and temple rule: ie church vs state
9. What does Gilgamesh represent?
10. What is the relationship of religion or the temple and the state or the king?
Quest for immortality
Love As a Motivating Force
12.How do the gods behave and relate to humans?
13.How do the humans relate to each other?
The Inevitability of Death: The Flood.
14. Why do the gods bring on the Flood? Is any reason given?
15. What does it tell us about the nature of history and the relation of the gods to humanity?