When you state, “Nothing is impossible” and someone wrecks your thought by saying,”Yes, death is impossible”, you have to agree. Gilgamesh in a fearful way believes avoiding death is possible, or in other words wants to find the possibility.
Tablet VIII of Gilgamesh describes his regret of Enkidu’s death, how sorry he is, and Tablet IX relates his thoughts towards death, to a journey of what we believe is impossible. He begins his journey by wondering, “Enkidu has died. Must I die too? Must Gilgamesh be like that?” (pg.48). He perhaps intends to be more than human; he contradicts what he had said of Enkidu at first, “You wore the garments suitable for a prince. You sat in the place of honor nearest the king. The great ones of the earth bowed down before you.” (pg.47). I state this since Enkidu was his companion, his equal and when he died, this equality died as well.
Immortality is a matter searched, unknown only identified to be from the gods, the unreachable. As said in Ishmael, we as takers always intend to be equal or more than the gods, we pretend to be the greatest. Gilgamesh then would be recognized as a taker, one who seeks more, one ambitious, and one who has the world in his hands. When he visits Utnapishtim, he goes through a tough journey but at the end it is described as, “…and all the other gems the earth has yielded for the delight and pleasure of kings. And beyond the garden Gilgamesh saw the sea.” (pg.53). Even the text says how things are destined to be, for the kings. For the greatest, the ones who believe are greater than the rest. Also what is meant is how when man is to conquer and rule he sees more and devises his destiny. Destiny, the once inevitable, a subject belonging to conquer, a subject as high as the gods.
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