Despite the many similarities between the two stories, the differences are revealed in a number of different topics that distinguish the biblical version of the story from the ancient version. In both versions of the flood story something angers God, in the Bible, and the gods, in Gilgamesh. "The uproar of mankind is intolerable and sleep is no longer possible by reasons of the babel" (Gilgamesh 12). The Gilgamesh reason seems very illogical. The Gods decide to destroy mankind because they are making too much noise.
Utnapishtim had been warned that a great flood would be dealt to destroy all of mankind. The reasons for the flood are very much argued in different accounts of mythological studies, but some discuss the reason was that the gods were discouraged by mankind’s sins and wanted to start over by clearing out all that had been created in the beginning. Only one man was to be saved, and that was
Even though there are quite a few similarities to the two stories, there also seems to be quite an astonishing amount of differences between the great Biblical story of Noah's Ark and the accounts of the flood told by Utnapishtim in Gilgamesh. Mankind had become evil. There were many sins which had become widespread and common throughout the Earth. In the story of Noah, we read “And the Lord saw that the evil of the human creature was great on the earth and that every scheme of his heart's devising was only perpetually evil. And the Lord regretted having made the human on earth and was grieved to the heart”(Genesis 6).
Both the floods were created to destroy the mankind of the world. Both the floods were created because of the people's wickedness and evilness. Both the floods were global. However, in the Genesis' flood, only one god, Yahweh, decided to end the mankind while in Gilgamesh’s flood, an assembly of god decided to do it. In the Genesis, the God didn't regret his action and instead told that if the people are still disobedient, then he will repeat it again.
God was frustrated with the wickedness on earth, and how every plan devised by his mind was nothing but evil all the time. God regretted he mad man on earth, and his heart was saddened. He chose Noah because he was a righteous man, blameless in his age, and he walked with God. Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham, and Joseth. God told Noah to make an arc of gopher wood with compartments, and cover it inside and out with pitch.
The Crusades centered on the war over the city of Jerusalem and the holy places of Palestine. Jerusalem had a lot of holy significance in the Christian religion. The Christians believed in a Christian god, Jesus Christ, the Hoy Sprit and the Virgin Mary. They also believed in the afterlife, Angels and Hell. Christians believed that the first humans were created in the image of God, but that the bad behavior of Adam and Eve brought negative consequences to all humans to this day.
The story of Genesis from the Old Testament and Gilgamesh Flood story are very similar to one another. But they are also very different and how the story went along. Most details seem the same but when it comes down to why the flood happened, the stories for each are different. Gilgamesh being punished from the gods like in Genesis to be wiped out from the earth, where as in the actual Genesis story, God wanted to get rid of his wickedness creations, so he created the flood that would help do that. The similarities are the most obvious to begin with.
Two particular cultures condemned this behavior by way of their stories of a worldwide flood. The Hebrew story of Noah and the Arck tells how all of humanity was wiped out, and that only the most faithful man and his family would be saved. The flood story in The Epic of Gilgamesh follows the same plot line. Both stories share so many elements, it would be safe to say that the originated from a common work, but the minute differences reflect the values of their different cultures of origin. Both the Hebrew story of Noah and the Arc and The flood story in The Epic of Gilgamesh are alike in many ways despite being writted nearly a millennium apart.
“Am I to be thought the only criminal when all human kind has sinned against me?” As a creator, Victor Frankenstein abandons his creature, and neglects him in ways a creator shouldn’t. This shapes his identity and shows that he is in fact monstrous in the way he acts towards the creature. He quotes in the book “He showed unparalleled malignity and selfishness in evil”; this is quiet an ironic quote Mary Shelley has used, as Victor is in fact the evil and egotistical being between the two. The use of emotive language as the Creature tells his story, allows the reader to feel sympathy for the creature. We begin to realize the true identity of the creature, and how it is more humane then humanity itself.
7. 3 reasons of what the people thought caused the black death was that God was punishing Mankind for its sins, an unfavorable alignment of the planets, and they said it was bad air, and jews poisoning wells. 8. There were no real cures for the black death, because no one actually knew where it was coming from so they had to deal with it and hope to survive. 9.