The Epic Of Gilgamesh: Joseph Campbell's Heroic Monomyth

Gilgamesh the wise king of Uruk is a epic hero that follows Joseph Campbell’s Heroic Monomyth. He is the hero of Uruk and the their culture that is pass down to the modern day Iraq. He is two third god and one third man which give him the rights to become king, but he is not perfect since he is not a god. He too have weakness and flaw and that is his overwhelming strength to look down others and his mortal part of him.
In the epic of Gilgamesh he is a tyrant king and his people are afraid of him. He capture mens for his army and he made all the women's his. The gods answers the prayer and created Enkidu. They later became friends and went on long journeys to build up their legacy. Both Enkidu and Gilgamesh faces the darkest point of their
life and was about to give up, but they receive supernatural aids from the gods and got out of their slumberness.
He is considered to to be a hero because he is not perfect and he went on a journey to fight evil or to stop what they're doing to protect his people. He also protect his city and his people by building a wall surrounding the to prevent invader of another kingdom. This reveal that the Sumerian believe that everlasting life don’t exist and the man are destiny to die when they reach their fate and nothing can change that.