More like an epic-ly long prologue
Brenna
So I hated the prologue. It was boring and there were just so many names and places and I just constantly stayed confused the entire time while reading it.
On the other hand once I got to the actual Epic of Gilgamesh it really got interesting. So chapter one really got me going. For one I'm pretty sure Gilgamesh is an unattractive man hoe. I say unattractive because, "A body covered with matted hair," does not sound too good to me. My primary focus is mostly on the first chapter because I really got so much out of it and it really set up the whole rest of the story. Before I get going on some actual meaningful stuff I would like to state that right at the beginning it started talking about naked people and this naked harlot. It was quite vivid, but I felt like went back to last semester and I was in a scene from Master and Margarita all over again.
Now back to serious business. I did feel like taking the harlot to take away the innocence of Enkidu was similar to many times in the Bible when others were deceived: Adam and Eve, Jacob and Esau and most of all Samson and Delilah. Then after that Gilgamesh started having all these dreams, like way too many dreams, but it made me think of when Pharaoh had dreams and he called Joseph from prison and he interpreted them so they would be prepared for the famine that was to take place.
In chapter two one line stuck out to me, and yes I am making another biblical reference. It stated that, "The way was broad and the going was good." This to me is a backwards version of the whole straight and narrow and broad leads to destruction idea in the book of Matthew.
Now since there are so many biblical references I can pull out of this I just listed a few because if not I could go on and on, like really. I just really wanted to get it across that this is so similar to the Bible it is not even funny. Well it kind of is... but you get the point!
P.S. I commented on Zelda and Katie's post.
So I hated the prologue. It was boring and there were just so many names and places and I just constantly stayed confused the entire time while reading it.
On the other hand once I got to the actual Epic of Gilgamesh it really got interesting. So chapter one really got me going. For one I'm pretty sure Gilgamesh is an unattractive man hoe. I say unattractive because, "A body covered with matted hair," does not sound too good to me. My primary focus is mostly on the first chapter because I really got so much out of it and it really set up the whole rest of the story. Before I get going on some actual meaningful stuff I would like to state that right at the beginning it started talking about naked people and this naked harlot. It was quite vivid, but I felt like went back to last semester and I was in a scene from Master and Margarita all over again.
Now back to serious business. I did feel like taking the harlot to take away the innocence of Enkidu was similar to many times in the Bible when others were deceived: Adam and Eve, Jacob and Esau and most of all Samson and Delilah. Then after that Gilgamesh started having all these dreams, like way too many dreams, but it made me think of when Pharaoh had dreams and he called Joseph from prison and he interpreted them so they would be prepared for the famine that was to take place.
In chapter two one line stuck out to me, and yes I am making another biblical reference. It stated that, "The way was broad and the going was good." This to me is a backwards version of the whole straight and narrow and broad leads to destruction idea in the book of Matthew.
Now since there are so many biblical references I can pull out of this I just listed a few because if not I could go on and on, like really. I just really wanted to get it across that this is so similar to the Bible it is not even funny. Well it kind of is... but you get the point!
P.S. I commented on Zelda and Katie's post.
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