Monday, August 8, 2011
Please edit? its only 200 worrds?
The role of the women was to help Enkidu transform from a wild beast living in nature to becoming a human living in a city. A trapper notices Enkidu drinking from the watering hole with other wild beasts; he told his father that there was a wild beast at the watering hole helping the game escape from his traps. The father then tells his son the trapper to go see Gilgamesh and ask him for one of his harlots to “let her woman’s power overpower [Enkidu] (2). Gilgamesh tells the trapper to go back with the harlot and that once Enkidu “[embraces] her, the wilderness will surely reject him” (2). After Enkidu spent six days and seven nights with the harlot, he has forgotten his home with the wild beasts, but when he is satisfied he goes back to the wild beasts. “The gazelles saw him, they bolted away” none of the wild creatures wanted him anymore (2). Enkidu has grown weak, “the thoughts of a man were in his heart” (2). He goes back to the harlot and she tells him about Gilgamesh, and Enkidu wants to challenge him immediately. The harlot taught the savage man her woman’s art and he has now transformed into a man. She gives him clothes, teaches him how to eat and showed him how to be a man. The harlot welcomes Enkidu into society completing his transformation from being a wild beast living in the wild to a man living in the city.
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