Question

From Gilgamesh:
1. At what point does Gilgamesh begin to feel fear? What details in the text suggest that he has become afraid? <---- I don't where in the text that it talked about him having fear.

For number 1, I put: He felt fear when Gilgamesh ascended the mountain, but I don't know if that's right and if it was right what evidence would support his afraidness.

Answer 1

http://pdkphs.tripod.com/new/1gilgamesh.html

Answer 2

Gilgamesh felt fear when Enkidu died. He feared death.

Answer 3

Well going from the link I posted where in the passage did you find that

Answer 4

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/gilgamesh/
This will help you. I have read the epic a while ago like in middle school.

Answer 5

oh there was link? hold up

Answer 6

I posted a link

Answer 7

Enkidu dies, and that is when Gilgamesh learned about death. so it is obvious haha

Answer 8

what details in text suggest that he has become afraid

Answer 9

Not in here, but somewhere in the epic :)

Answer 10

did u read the whole thing? r u just trying to get answers?

Answer 11

no the question goes with the link I posted and if it's not from the link then it's not right, because I have to get textual evidence to support that.

Answer 12

I am sorry if I am frustrating you

Answer 13

oh u r not :) its fine
I was just wondering

Answer 14

At the start of the narrative Gilgamesh and Enkidu are presented as somewhat inhuman. Gilgamesh is "a god and man" (15), but his characteristics are more godlike. Enkidu is "an animal and man" (15), but is more animal than man. The relationship that forms between Enkidu and Gilgamesh is the most important event in the entire narrative. Actually, we can say that the entire narrative is based on that friendship and the effect that this friendship had on both Enkidu and Gilgamesh. For the first time each of these two characters finds another who is equal to him and, in a way, completes him: Gilgamesh "saw himself in the other, just as Enkidu saw Himself in Gilgamesh" (24). The two characters become inseparable, growing to love each other as brothers who are willing to sacrifice anything for the sake of the other. Therefore, when Gilgamesh decides to go off to fight Humbaba who, he believes, has taken away his strength Enkidu goes too. This is despite the fact that he is afraid of confronting Humbaba and is sure that this confrontation will end in death. But rather than let his friend go alone, he overcomes his fear and accompanies him, even though he knows that it probably means sacrificing his life. Again, when Gilgamesh insults Ishtar who responds by sending the Bull of Heaven down on the friends, Enkidu stands by his friend and fights the Bull. What this means is that he willingly faces any type of danger, no matter how severe it is, out of loyalty and love for his friend.
The point of the story where it becomes very clear that both friends have reached humanity is the scene of Enkidu's death. For his part, Enkidu feels a great fear that he is dying, as well as feeling sorrow that he is leaving Gilgamesh behind. He tells his friend, "You will be left alone" (49). Further proof of the fact that Enkidu has reached humanity is his own admission of the fact. So, when he is griefing for his life and for his friend who would be left all alone, he says of the prostitute:
"She made me see
Things as a man, and a man sees death in things" (49). Here Enkidu admits that, before meeting the prostitute, he did not think of himself as a man. Actually, he really had no knowledge of himself as human. As a consequence of their meeting, however, as well as his friendship with Gilgamesh, he has become a man. And, it is as a man that he feels sorrow and fear at his dying.
Gilgamesh's reaction to his friend's death is very human and extremely typical of human behaviour to the present day. Therefore, in the very beginning of the scene when Enkidu tells him that he is dying, Gilgamesh's first reaction is denial:
"My friend, it is the fever only" (46). This is followed by his remembering the times they shared together and, regret for not having made the most of it. What this means is that he regrets not having taken the opportunity to express to Enkidu what he felt for him when he had the chance to:
"Gilgamesh knew his friend was close to death.
He tried to recollrect aloud their life together
That had been so brief, so empty of gestures
They never felt they had to make" (48). This is followed by a prayer to his mother, the godess Ninsun, to let his friend live. What we see here, denial, memories, regret and prayer, are all very human emotions. These emotions are aroused in Gilgamesh by his friend, the closeness they shared, and the fact that he is about to loose this friendship and closeness. Therefore, it is through his relation with Enkidu that Gilgamesh discovers the human side of him. This humanity, and the fact that he has achieved it is stressed also by the fact that he cries for the first time ever. Enkidu himself comments on this by saying:
"Your eyes have changed.
You are crying. You never cried before.
It's not like you" (50).
Gilgamesh's final reaction to his friend's death is to bring him back to life, and to gaurentee also his own immortality by finding the secret of life. He sets off on a long and dangerous journey with this aim in mind. At the end of this journey he finds the plant that contains the secret but, before he can do anything with it, the serpent eats the plant. Here Gilgamesh's humanity becomes complete because he is forced to recognize his weakness. And knowing that he is weak and unable to fight fate and the gods is knowing that he is human and limited in his abilities. He finally learnt that "he lacked the power to bring him (Enkidu) back to life" (11).

Answer 15

That is from yahoo I think this might help. I do not see any evidence of "fear"

Answer 16

They dug a well before the sun had set and Gilgamesh ascended the mountain. Then he felt fear.

Answer 17

It comes up when Gil is grieving.

Answer 18

http://pdkphs.tripod.com/new/1gilgamesh.html

Answer 19

I think it is here
Enkidu feared his friend was weakening
And called out: Gilgamesh! Don't trust him!
As if there were some hunger in himself
That Gilgamesh was feeling
That turned him momentarily to yearn
For someone who would serve, he paused;
And then he raised his ax up higher
And swung it in a perfect arc
Into Humbaba's neck.
but u see, is this all? it comes after this