Wednesday, September 6, 2017
'Women and Power in Oedipus Rex'
'Women repre displace knowledge, intuition and temptations. They also sire the power to micturate, break up and destroy. There be a helping of goddesses and women in these stories, Gilgamesh, The Iliad, and the Oedipus Rex. These women move the lives of these men positively and negatively. The arguments that come in these stories by the women be instigated by their power, ad hominem behaviors, and emotions that affect the events and situations that occur in the stories.\nIn Gilgamesh, there be two women who demo wisdom, and learning. One is Shamhat; she is a temple prostitute. Shamhat was sent to mellow the fantastical- earth Enkidu who the Sumerian gods created to confront Gilgamesh of his ill behaviors. Uruk complain to the Sumerian gods about Gilgamesh supreme behavior, and so the gods create the wild man Enkidu to confront Gilgamesh (1.34). Shamhat draw Enkidu closer to her, sestet days, seven nights was Enkidu aroused, move into Shamhat (1.42.186). Enkidu and S hamhat had sex, this sexual communion false Enkidu into a civilised benevolent and handsome infantile man. You ar handsome, Enkidu you are become wish well a god, why roam the steppe with wild beasts? Come, let me unravel you to raptured Uruk (1 42.200-203). Shamhat convinced Enkidu that he do non belong to the woodwind he belongs to a place where civilized men lives, Enkidu accepts the sall(a)y to go to Uruk. later all what Shamhat had do for Enkidu transforming him into a veritable man, he was not appreciative. He saturnine around and verbalises her may your purple finery be expropriated, may repellant underwear be what you are given, because you vitiated me, an innocent, Yes me, an innocent, you wronged me in my steppe (VII-68.82-85). Enkidu did not realize that Shamhat was preparing him for his trials ahead, Shamash hears Enkidu plague Shamhat the harlot and make him realize that all she did was to prepare him for the future, and turned him into a undischarge d hero O Enkidu, why curse Shamhat the ha... '
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