Comparison of Noah and Gilgamesh

It is said that life is 10% what you influence it and 90% how you to take it. It isn’t the conditions of life that decide a man’s character. Or maybe, it is the way a man reacts to those conditions that gives a show of his identity. “From the Epic of Gilgamesh”, and “Noah and the Flood” from the Book of Genesis, both Gilgamesh and Noah confront comparable conditions, however don’t generally react to them a similar way. The postulation “Gilgamesh” and “Noah and the Flood” makes about the mission for everlasting status and extreme frailty speaks to the human dread of death and the want to be recalled is tolerating to not be responsible for death’s certainty. The differences between “The Epic of Gilgamesh” and Genesis may mirror the estimations of the way of life that delivered them. Both Noah and Gilgamesh were given a shot at life. Noah took after God’s guidelines and this spared him from death amid the surge. Gilgamesh responded to the offer of everlasting life in an easygoing way, which made him lose his objective not once, but rather twice. Maybe the Hebraic culture esteems compliance and train, while the old Middle Eastern societies set more significance on activities and deeds.

Noah is the man who took after directions and got away from a surge, while Gilgamesh is the man who executed wild brutes and came painfully near interminable life. Each are similarly deified by their particular societies. The surge in the two stories wrecks the majority of creation. These surges are an image. They speak to resurrection and a fresh start for creation, and the forces that god or the divine beings have available to them. In The Epic of Gilgamesh, the divine beings chose to devastate humankind by flooding earth for six days and six evenings. Utnapishtim was constructed a watercraft keeping in mind the end goal to restart humankind after the surge. In Genesis, God chose to surge the Earth for forty days and forty evenings. God picked Noah to assemble an ark to spare two of every creature and revive life after the surge. In both The Epic of Gilgamesh, and Genesis, an account of a surge happens; these stories look into in a few imperative ways. In the two stories humankind was eradicated in light of the fact that the situation was getting to be noticeably riotous. In The Epic of Gilgamesh the god Enlil’s explanation behind needing to wreck man was “the mayhem of humankind is unbearable and rest is not any more conceivable by reason of the babel” (108).

Alternate divine beings concurred with Enlil’s revelation. In Genesis, God additionally watched that the fiendishness of man had assumed control over the Earth. Utnapishtim was survived the immense surge since he was a genuine admirer of the god Ea, who came to caution Utnapishtim about the surge. Utnapishtim and Noah moved toward their individual voyages by building a substantial watercraft, and bringing their families, and additionally two of each creature, on board. Utnapishtim’s vessel was two hundred feet tall, with six stories. Noah’s ark was thirty cubits high, and three stories tall. Utnapishtim and Noah both made due by remaining on their separate vessels all through the span of the surge.