The gods themselves possess human traits such as love, jealousy, and hate. Though in this epic, they were nearly not too helpful; in reality, all their actions were of destruction. Gilgamesh’s anguish was caused by the god, Ishtar, and her spite. A superhuman to rival Gilgamesh named Enkidu was created and ended up being his dearest friend, yet he died in his own opinion a shameful death from the curse of the gods. Gilgamesh loved him like his own brother and mourned his death for the longest time.
Mesopotamia never had very good crop seasons and they believed that this is because of the gods unforgiving and spiteful manner. However the Egyptians almost always had a good crop season therefore they thank their gods. Another difference these two civilizations share regarding religion is their belief in the afterlife. Although both civilizations believed in an afterlife, Egyptians believed that the afterlife was a place of joy and celebration, the Mesopotamians believed that their afterlife was a brutal and torturous place. The third difference regarding religion is the fact that Egyptians at a pharaoh who they worshiped as a god, loan Mesopotamians had no pharaoh.
When they are fighting Humbaba, Gilgamesh says, “you will surpass all of them... a friend who knows battle understands fighting... stand, friend, we will go up together.” Gilgamesh also shows that he does have a sensitive side when Enkidu dies. He says, “For Enkidu, for my friend, I weep like a wailing woman, howling bitterly... an evil has risen up and robbed me.”. As a result of Enkidu’s dying, Gilgamesh shows that he is afraid of death and denies the fact that he too will die one day. He goes on a quest searching for immortality, where he finds out it is pointless. Through these actions Gilgamesh shows he is denying that he is mortal.
When Tybalt is killed, Lady Capulet, Lord Capulet, and Paris think she is unhappy because of her cousin’s death, which makes Paris respond to this conflict by scheduling the wedding earlier to make Juliet happy again, and that’s one of the biggest conflicts since she told Friar Lawrence she would rather do the most dangerous things than marry Paris. Paris is a very kind-hearted man who treats Juliet like she’s very delicate, he still loved her even though she denied it when he called her his wife. Although he is arrogant, he loves Juliet and he treats the Capulets with admiration and formality, he highly respects Friar Lawrence and gets annoyed with Romeo at the end because
He was raping any women, whether she was the wife of one of his warriors or the daughter of a nobleman. “ He himself howls through sacred places where his sacrilege is hidden from the view of youngsters.” (page 3). The gods heard his subjects’ and decided to keep Gilgamesh in check by creating a wild man named Enkidu, who was as magnificent as Gilgamesh. Enkidu became Gilgamesh’s great friend. Gilgamesh and Enkidu decide to fight a terrifying demon named Humbaba, because he was standing on their way to meet gods.
69-70 ) This made Juliet miserable over Romeo's banishment, meanwhile her parents thought her unhappiness was over Tybalt's death. Then, Juliet's parents, trying to make her happy, moved up her wedding date, only to make her even more depressed due to the fact she was already married to Romeo. All of this led up to Juliet's fake death, which caused both of their deaths. Romeo and Juliet are at fault for their own deaths. Romeo and Juliet did not have to keep their love a secret.
Iago’s murder of Emilia could also come from the general hatred of women that he displays. Emilia can be seen as a cover up to Iago’s true sexuality. When Iago tells Othello, “I am yours favour” it sets up the idea of Iago having homosexual feelings for Othello, these words sounding like a wedding vow. He certainly seems to take great pleasure in preventing Othello from enjoying marital happiness with Desdemona by framing her to be seen as unfaithful to Othello also he expresses his love for Othello frequently and effusively, for example; "…I lay with Cassio lately…. In sleep I heard him say, "Sweet Desdemona, Let us be wary, let us hide our loves!"
In the story, it mentions about the love from Ishtar goddess. She loves Gilgamesh, and pays court to him, but Gilgamesh refuses. Then she becomes angry, she asks his father Anu god to kill Gilgamesh or Enkidu. From the context, we can know that, love can change a person to hate; Ishtar goddess cannot have the love from Gilgamesh, so she wants him to be died even though he loved him very much. It is sarcasm, and it is very common in social live.
In many myths involving Aphrodite, it is said that she was vain, ill-tempered and easily offended. She is one of the few Greek gods to be married, but was frequently unfaithful to her husband, Hephaestus. Aphrodite preferred Ares, Adonis, Anchises and more. Even though she was unfaithful to her husband, she was protective of her son, Aeneas. During the Trojan War, Aeneas was hurt and Aphrodite came to help him.
Once she would have her hooks in these men, their slow downfall began. One of her victims was king Ludwig of Bavaria, who felt compelled to help Lola yet once he was warned of the dangers of his affair with her, he could not seem to resist Lolaand almost found his once peaceful country in a state of civil war. It was not until then that the king finally ordered Lola to leave but a month after she left King Ludwig was forced to relinquish his throne. There are many men who suffered because of their association with Lola Montez. King Ludwig said that he was “bewitched” by Lola.