martes, 14 de octubre de 2008
Inmortality?
Tablets 8 and 9Immortality, the goal humans, have always wanted to achieve. In Greece, the citizens wanted to become gods, to be immortal; in the colonization, the Spaniards went crazy trying to find the fountain of life, which was an indigenous legend. The alquimists speak of sorcerer’s stone. As well as humans, Gilgamesh realizes he is vulnerable (I was wrong on the blog before, Enkidus death changes Gilgamesh by reminding him that he may die, as well as his companion) he will travel the wilderness to find an answer, for his question. May death be avoided?From now on the real message of the story will start to enfold. (I was wrong on the blog before, I said that Enkidu´s death was the climax of the story, it is actually a rising action. Which was the starting point of the second and most important pat of Gilgamesh) “Enkidu has died. Must I die too? Must Gilgamesh be like that? Gilgamesh fealt the fear in his belly. He said to himself that he would seek the son of Ubartutu, Utnapishtin, he, the only one of men by means of whom he might finding out how death could be avoided.” (Gilgamesh, page 42)Will humans finally find immortality? Well I guess that they have already found it. The immortals are the geniuses that worked for a better future, that even after being dead are always present in conferences, schools, and minds. The Colombian presidential candidate Luis Carlos Galan, assassinated by the mafia in 1989 is one of these immortals for me. Every time I think of a special person, I think of him. Or in a more general look Dr King, he is always being remembered for his fight against racism, he is a hero for many. I hope that every generation, more of this people are created, and at least one is not killed. He can make a big change.
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