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    WORLD LITERATURE COMPARE CONTRAST PAPER GILGAMESH AND GENESIS FLOOD ACCOUNTS Total destruction! The water is covering the whole entire world swallowing every living creature from human to insect into the abyss of wet darkness during the Great Flood. During my reading of The Epic of Gilgamesh and Genesis I found that there are definitely some similarities between the flood accounts in The Epic of Gilgamesh and Genesis; however‚ there are some differences as well. I plan to discuss the similarities

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    Oedipus and Troy Maxson

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    According to Aristotle’s definition of tragedy‚ the famous play “Oedipus the king” by Sophocles fit all of qualifications. Oedipus is a tragic hero since his particular characteristic is king. In another play “Fences” by August Wilson‚ the main character Troy Maxson‚ is different with Oedipus. He is not a tragic hero of Aristotle’s concept‚ but he is a modern tragic. Oedipus was definitely a tragic hero‚ but Troy is not matching it. Following the Aristotle’s definition of tragic hero:

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    the futurist‚ have in common with Gilgamesh Arguably the oldest hero in history? Well unsurprisingly not much‚ for instance Iron Man is a Genius Billionaire with a high-tech suit of armor. While Gilgamesh was an ancient king‚ a good ancient king‚ but still ancient. They both were searching for immortality and failed. Along the way they both depended on friends to defeat a common enemy. Both of them went searching for immortality‚ albeit different kinds. Gilgamesh wanted physical immortality while

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    the life of Noah. In the story of Gilgamesh‚ a man by the name of Utnaptishtim experience the fate Noah had with the flood. Even though these stories are very similar‚ there are differences that are present. In the

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    including The Epic of Gilgamesh‚ the portrayal of a hero who faces and overcomes evil symbolizes hope for humankind in general. When the protagonist of the epic‚ Gilgamesh‚ squares up with the demon‚ Humbaba‚ the battle signifies more than simply a fight between two entities. The king sets a goal for himself: journey to the Cedar Forest‚ defeat the guardian demon‚ and retrieve the cedar. Several times along the way‚ the hero experiences dread. His fear is justified; Enkidu tells Gilgamesh of the demon‚ “Humbaba’s

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    The fate of Oedipus and Pentheus I am going to compare and contrast Oedipus from Sophocles’s Oedipus the King and Pentheus from Euripides’s Bacchae. The difference between both of them is that Oedipus encounters the face of truth after performing the actions and as a result‚ his heart is surrounded with the feeling of pain and sorrow leading him to purposely punish and take revenge against himself whereas in the case of Pentheus‚ his foolish and grumpy attitude leads him to perform actions in temptation

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    Noah Vs Gilgamesh Essay

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    “Noah and the Flood” and “The Epic of Gilgamesh” are essentially origin myths meaning a story concerning the early history or importance of a culture. Although the differences in circumstances‚ heroic abilities‚ and outcomes of the flood narratives in “Noah and the Flood” and “The Epic of Gilgamesh” they appear to be quite comparable. The circumstances in both origin myths have their differences but also appear to be fairly similar. “The Epic of Gilgamesh” is a story that is polytheistic which

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    Oedipus Rex Study Guide The Prologos 1. What initial step does Oedipus indicate he has already taken? 2. What is the significance of Delphi? What is the message from the oracle at Delphi with which Creon returns? 3. What does Oedipus think about the clue Creon reveals about who murdered King Laios? What might this perception foreshadow? 4. What does Oedipus promise to do at the end of the Prologos? 5. Of what symbolic significance are the olive boughs‚ strewn at the alter steps as

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    and Gilgamesh flood stories. Although different in regards to the details‚ the main plot is similar between the two stories from two different civilizations. Because of this similarity‚ many people believe that either “Genesis was copied from an earlier Babylonian story‚ or the Gilgamesh myth was copied from an earlier Hebrew story‚ or both were copied from a common source that predates them both (Robinson). There are many similarities between the Noah flood story and the Gilgamesh flood

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    The parallels between The Epic of Gilgamesh‚ translated by Benjamin R. Foster‚ and the Genesis stories‚ from The Hebrew Bible‚ are uncanny. The overall theme of these stories talks about divine intervention and questions the human condition of mortality. Both of these infamous literary works address the fact that humans are the only known species capable of abstract thinking‚ moral judgment‚ and meta-cognition. While continuous belief compares this ability with the divine‚ the human life is limited

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