Response to the Gods

I would hate do this, but I too have to disagree with Josh’s blog. His argument states that Gilgamesh was simply trying to make the Gods happy so all of the problems could simply just be worked out by the divine powers. My argument against that is, if he was trying to make the Gods happy, why would he do the things he did? Why would he rape newlyweds or take children from their father at an early age? I believe that if he was truly trying to make the Gods happy, he would have been a leader that never touched a woman or never sinned or lied to the people of Uruk. I think it is understood that Enkidu was put in this story for a reason. When the story starts off, the authors start praising Gilgamesh about how he two thirds God, one third human, he had a perfect body, perfect beauty and surpassing courage. I think they were trying to plant this image in the readers head because they wanted to think that this god of a man was on a level no one has been before. Also, when the reader first met Enkidu, the author when into great detail about how uncivilized and put emphasis that Enkidu ate and interacted with other animals, like an animal. The authors, who are anonymous, went to great lengths to create such opposites. There is not a great deal of interaction between Gilgamesh and the Gods, the story is based on the ups and downs of the relationship between Gilgamesh and Enkidu. That is why I disagree with Josh’s post.