Gilgamesh: Pages 1-20

The main thing I focused on and would like to discuss is Enkidu's achievement of consiousness, of "humanhood" in the form of "enlightenment", without considering he couldve been better off as an animal, a gazelle in the plains. Instead he was converted into a man by some of man's most basic temptatons, which continue to be basic today: Sex and Alcohol. They made him turn against his beloved animals, to now attack and defend against the creatures he lived and thrived with. In the text, his humanity was a step up, a conversion to a greater life form, but there are those that could argue that his life was better and easier in the plains. That his contentment was fuller as a gazelle.