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Assignment:
Answer 4 questions
1. What are the main points in the praise of Gilgamesh with which the poem begins? What do we learn of Gilgamesh, of his journey, his adventure? What does he learn and accomplish?
2. Describe Gilgamesh. What is unusual about him? What important information do we learn concerning his ancestry? Given his strange ancestry, what will Gilgamesh's central problem be, do you think? His central question.....?
3. Alas, Gilgamesh was not always wise-what kind of King is he to his people? Why do the citizens of Uruk complain about him? Who is Aruru, and how does she solve Uruk's problem?
4. What kind of creature is Enkidu? Describe him. What do you think he represents? How does he contrast to Gilgamesh?
5. Why is Enkidu a problem for the trapper? How does the trapper solve his problem?
6. How does Enkidu become fully human, civilized? What does the harlot represent here? What does civilization represent here?
7. In what ways is the story of Enkidu and the harlot like or unlike that of Adam and Eve?