In a disguising identity and appearance, he can know who loves him truly and is faithful to him. For instance, Eurycleia, Penelope and even his dog. Athena also disguises herself several times in the epic in order to assist people with their hardships and problems. She pretends herself as a friend of Odysseus and enters the palace to encourage Telemachus to leave his native land for finding news of his father. The reason why Gods and Goddess meet people in a fake identity is because divinity is sacred; as a result, they have to separate themselves from the ordinaries.
Another way in which the reader can see the intimate relationship between the divine and mortal is after Gilgamesh returns from slaying Huwawa, a demon, who guards the Cedar forest. After Gilgamesh cleaned up after the battle and the journey back, “the goddess Ishtar saw him and fell in love with the beauty of Gilgamesh and longed for his body. ‘Be my lover, be my husband,’ she spoke and said. ‘Give me the seed of your body, give me your semen’” (Gilgamesh 29). Gilgamesh refused Ishtar’s advances because she had had many other lovers before and all of those human men came to ruin.
Following the death of his beloved friend, Gilgamesh develops a great fear of death. He sets off on a long journey in search of eternal life. One of the very first controversial topics presented in this story is Gilgamesh,
Erik Lopez History 120 11/1/2011 I just want to live forever “After Enkidu died I’m very terrified of dying myself, I the great Gilgamesh king of Uruk do not deserve to ever die! Watching Enkidu die has made me fear death. I must find Utnapishtim and find out how I can also be granted immortality before it’s too late and my precious life is killed off. I will go look for him, no matter how long it takes me I will find him and I will find out how to live forever! Somehow after the Great Flood, Utnapishtim and his wife were the only humans to have been granted immortality by the gods, they must know something or have done something to be granted such a reward.
It changes him from a tormenter and a dictator to a wonderful king and a hero. Later in the book Gilgamesh has a very hard time dealing with the death of Enkidu and goes on a journey to try and become immortal. Odysseus on the other hand is motivated by the love of his wife, Penelope, and his son, Telemachus. Odysseus desperately wants to go home to them but has been held captive on an island by Calypso. Calypso is also motivated by love.
The character Salome is based on the biblical Salome, in her biblical form Salome is he daughter of Herodias who is married to her uncle (King Herod), John the Baptist stood out against the marriage and Herodias had him arrested and wanted him executed, Herod respected John and wanted him to live, so he was merely imprisoned. Herod promised Salome anything she wanted is she danced for him, so after performing an erotic dance, Salome asks for Johns head on a platter. She then took this head to her mother. The Laboratory
Man betrays his upbringing and become civilized to protect their way of life. "When he sees her beckoning he will embrace her and then the wild beasts will reject him." (20) Gilgamesh is a womanizing ruler this is represented by him saying, "Take with you this harlot, a child of pleasure" (20) to the trapper so that they could save the existence of the community. Gilgamesh bears the secret that if he is ever conquered it will be by a woman. By sending the Harlot he has revealed his own weakness.
That is a step on which I must fall down, or else oerleap for in my way it lies. Stars hide your fires, let not light see my black and deep desires.” When Lady Macbeth receives the letter from her husband about the witches prediction she also realises that Duncan must killed. She thinks that Macbeth deserves to be great but also believes he is too noble to do such a thing. “Yet do I fear thy nature It is too full othe milk of human-kindness to catch the nearest way. Thou wouldst be great art not without ambition, but without the illness should attend it.” This shows that Lady Macbeth simply brings out the murderous butcher within Macbeth which was always subconsciously there with his ambition for glory.
From the moment she makes her first appearance in Macbeth, it is impossible to deny that Lady Macbeth is a force to be reckoned with. She doesn’t question her husband’s plan to kill the King; no, she questions his manliness, fearing he is too soft to actually keep his word: Glamis thou art, and Cawdor, and shalt be What thou art promised. Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o’ th’ milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way. (I, v, 15-18) She fears that Macbeth lacks the monstrous brutality necessary to kill Duncan and fulfill the prophecy of the three witches—which is surprising, considering he hacked his way through a throng of innocents just to chop a man in half and stick his head on a pike—and so she tells Macbeth that she will make the arrangements to
Were it not for outside forces, he would have lived happily as Thane of Cawdor, an illustrious title in itself. Macbeth does not even want to kill King Duncan. He says “chance may crown me without my stir.” Fearing the withes message means that he will kill the king in the future, he says “Present fears are less than horrible imaginings.” Macbeth writes to his wife, telling her about the withes and how one prophecy has already come true. As soon as she hears about it, she calls on evil spirits to fill her full of cruelty so that she will the King if necessary. Macbeth, on the other hand, does not like a possible future by the withes prophecy: that he will kill his King.