Why Death?

Tablets 6 and 7
The Bull of Heaven, the second victim of the infinite power of the strongest, greatest and tallest living creature. Enkidu and Gilgamesh once again, fought together and killed their second enemy. Ishtar, a goddess falls in love with main character. She invited him to live with her, and become totally a god, an immortal. Although the greatest of all, rejects her and tells about her foulness. She was enraged, “Ishtar was enraged and went to the gods in heaven, to Anu her father and to her mother Antum. “The king of Uruk has insulted me. He has found out and told about my foulness.… give me the bull of heaven that I may punish Gilgamesh the king, who has found out and told about the foulness of the goddess” (Gilgamesh, page 32) And so it was. When Ishtar came back to the heaven and told all the gods about the killing of the Bull. They decided to punish Enkidu with a fatal sickness, which later he dies of.Gilgamesh suffers greatly the death. What does the death represent for the epic and Gilgamesh? I believe this was the climax and from now on, the falling action will take place. The book is starting to end. (It’s curious that the story starts the falling action on page30)I believe that the death of the companion is a message for the greatest of all; he is being reminded that he is still a human, gods have the ultimate power. He may not challenge this, they may kill him. But as well it’s an advice for stopping hid dangerous journeys, and return things how they were before. He is protected by the walls. I hope the death will have a big effect in the remaining of the book; therefore it will make the falling action more interesting.