Comparison_Of_Characters_In_Iliad

Comparison Of Characters In Iliad Life is a Highway Life can be seen as a journey of understanding and growth. We are born, and until our death we grow and learn. We come to understand the nature of life through our victories and our failures. Although the epic hero Gilgamesh and Homer’s Achilles exemplify godlike qualities, great personal power, and loyalty, they both share the same tragic flaw: overweening pride and immaturity. As Gilgamesh and Achilles take on this journey of life, they learn a lesson from their pride and mature heroically. When we first meet Gilgamesh, the epic’s title character, he possesses beauty, strength, and unequaled potential for greatness, but he is a tyrannical ruler, inexperienced and impulsive. The story is about his growth to full maturity as he develops through his friendship with Enkidu and his search for everlasting life. In almost the entire story of The Iliad, Achilles has been a prideful, jealous, stubborn prick. He is the mightiest warrior in the Achaean army, but he cannot control his pride and his rage makes a puppet of him. He gets jealous of Agamemnon for taking all the glory of winning the battles, which is understandable because he is the one who won them, and withdraws achilles, gilgamesh, life, gods, enkidu, death, patroclus, go, agamemnon, way, through, realizes, mature, just, back, army, anger, youth, uta-napishti, until, taking, story, starts, pride, men, hector, goes, fight, feels, epic, come, child, character, been, battle, after