Gilgamesh

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facade. In their mind,they choose not to make the death into a reality. This stage is only temporary because eventually reality sets in. In the story, Gilgamesh can be seen exhibiting signs of denial. When Enkidu is wounded severely from battle, Gilgamesh's mind wanders off into Deep thought. "I can't imagine being left alone, I'm less of a man without my friend." This exhibits Gilgamesh's first sign of grief as he begins to be in denial of what life will be like without his great friend in that of Enkidu. The next stage, according to Kuebler Ross, in trying to cope with death, would be anger. By this stage, the reality of the death is acknowledged and anger arises. The person dealing with the death is usually taken over by a "why me?" attitude, often questioning the circumstances of the situation. This is displayed by Gilgamesh towards the second half of the Epic when a fond young woman known as Siduri suggests that he stay the night. She fed and sheltered Gilgamesh and ...

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This is usually the final stage because once reaching this stage, the person gains a more positive or accepting outlook on the situation, and is able to move on with their life. This is the order in which Gilgamesh wen through the various stages. But because everyone's thought process is different,these steps can be interchangeable, and could be experienced in a different sequence.

The next major theme that we will look at, is friendship. Friendship can be defined as a state of mutual trust and support amongst two or more people. In this case, we will be taking a closer look at the new found friendship between Gilgamesh and Enkidu and examining its importance. In the beginning, ...

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