Heroism in Epic of Gilgamesh Essay -- Epic Gilgamesh essays

Heroism in Gilgamesh  Ã‚   Heroism entails several things; a selfless act, courage, or the accomplishments of bold and daring expeditions. A hero can often be of divine ancestry. But every hero has faults and these faults along with heroic deeds make the man, or woman; a hero. Gilgamesh loved his friend Enkidu more than he loved himself. A phrase indicating this love for Enkidu is on page 35: "We must go down into the forest together./. . .I will go before you/And ... ...h the heroic and non-heroic qualities differently. In the end we are all the same, we have no choice, all of us must deal with each other's Gilgamesh. Work Cited Sandars. N. K. The Epic of Gilgamesh. New York: Penguin Books, 1972.