Enkidu's Friendship In The Epic Of Gilgamesh

The epic of Gilgamesh was civilization’s first piece of literature discovered by the modern world. Gilgamesh is the tyrannic king of Uruk. He makes his citizens work almost to the death to keep up the city and build it’s walls, then allows years of decay follow. He keeps the right of the king to sleep with the brides before their husbands do. No one challenges Gilgamesh’s ways, until Enkidu, a man who lived among the animals for most of his life comes to Uruk. He doesn’t understand how the people let Gilgamesh live the way he does. One night he stands in the way of Gilgamesh. The two fight, until they both are too tired to continue. From here they call a truce, as each has won the other’s trust, and from here a lifelong friendship stems. Throughout