Symbolism Of Snake In The Epic Of Gilgamesh
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In the Epic of Gilgamesh, the serpent strikes at him (Gilgamesh) in his time of weakness- that is, whilst he is taking a bath. This similarly illustrates that the serpent knows that he is no match for the human when he (the human) is well aware of its strength and therefore preys on him during his weakest. The Inversion of the Hero’s Journey. A motif that dominates the latter half of Gilgamesh is that of the hero’s journey.Often seen as a timeless motif across cultures, the Hero’s Journey typically follows a lone protagonist as they arrive at transformation after a long journey alone and a series of decisive confrontations in which the hero is victorious. The Epic of Gilgamesh is the oldest written story in human history that has survived since the third millennium BCE. The Epic of Gilgamesh is an ancient Mesopotamian poem of telling a story about the epic adventures of a man named Gilgamesh, who is the King of Uruk, and his companion Enkidu.A Short Guide to Imagery, Symbolism, and Figurative Language How to download after effects for free mac.
by Andrea Clark
Imagery can be defined as a writer or speaker’s use of words or figures of speech to create a vivid mental picture or physical sensation.Many good examples of imagery and figurative language can be found in “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” a sermon delivered by the Puritan minister Jonathan Edwards.For example, Edwards creates a powerful image figurative language when he says:
‘We find it easy to tread on and crush a worm that we see crawling on the earth; so it is easy for God, when he pleases, to cast his enemies down to hell.”
The image Edwards creates here is the vivid mental picture of someone crushing a worm.Edwards is also using figurative language because he compares the ease with which God can “cast his enemies down to hell” with the ease of our crushing a worm beneath our feet.The point he is making is that human beings are as small and powerless in the eyes of God as worms are to us; just as a worm is at our mercies for its existence, so we are at God’s for our existence.The most important reason to analyze a writer’s usage of imagery and figurative is to recognize how it contributes to the point he is trying to make or the effect he is attempting to create.This is true whether the writer is Jonathan Edwards attempting to inspire terror in the hearts of his congregation or a sports writer for a newspaper trying to help his readers experience the excitement of a football game they were not able to see.If writers just throw a surplus of images and figures of speech into their writing, it seems artificial and amateurish, and it can be annoying.
Types of Imagery
Although the word “imagery” most often brings to mind mental images, imagery is not always visual; it can appeal to any of the five senses. Here is a list of some types of imagery that appeal to different senses:
*Auditory imagery appeals to the sense of hearing.
·Gustatory imagery appeals to the sense of taste.
·Kinetic imagery conveys a sense of motion.
·Olfactory imagery appeals to the sense of smell.
·Tactile imagery appeals to the sense of touch.
·Visual imagery is created with pictures (many visual images are pictures of things representing well-known sayings or phrases).
Symbolism
Writers often create images through the use of symbolism.Carl Jung defined a symbol as “a term, a name, or even a picture that may be familiar in daily life, yet that possesses specific connotations in addition to its conventional an obvious meaning.”Symbols can be based on culture, such as a country’s flag (stars and stripes=USA) , or religion (the cross=Christianity), or other things.Cultural symbols can vary from one culture to another.For instance, to most people in our culture, white is a symbol of innocence and purity, but this is not so in all cultures.Other symbols seem to be almost universal across cultures. For instance, in the literature of many lands, light is a symbol for knowledge, and darkness is associated with the unknown.Likewise, snakes often represent temptation, curiosity, and the pitfalls that we as human beings must face in order to learn, grow, and change.We see this in myths such the creation story in Genesis and “The Search for Everlasting Life” in The Epic of Gilgamesh.
Types of Figurative Language
When a writer compares something to something else it is not really like literally, he is using a metaphor.Human beings are not literally worms, but Edwards uses them to make his point.When an author makes a comparison using the word “like” or “as,” he is using a type of figurative language called a simile.A simile is exactly the same as a metaphor except that it has to have the words “like” or “as.”For instance, if Edwards had said, “We are like worms to God” or “God can crush us as easily as a worm,” he would have been creating a simile.
Another common type of figure of speech is hyperbole, an obvious exaggeration.For instance, during the first week of class I was monopolizing the faculty Xerox machine at CYP for long periods of time, much to the chagrin of other instructors who also needed to make copies.The reason I had to make so many copies is that the ACC bookstore did not order enough copies of the textbooks for most of my classes.As I was attempting to make copies of about 40 pages from the textbook for my World Literature I class, I apologetically explained to one of my colleagues that the bookstore had not ordered nearly enough copies of your text. “So you’re making copies of the whole book?” she asked in exasperation.“No,” I replied in response to her hyperbole, “this is only The Epic of Gilgamesh.”
When I was a teenager attending the First Missionary Baptist Church of Buna, I was forced to endure the sermons of Brother Drew Sheffield, a pastor who fancied himself East Texas’ answer to Jonathan Edwards.However, while this preacher equaled Edwards with regard to the frequency of references to hellfire and brimstone in his sermons, he unfortunately was not Edwards’ equal with regard to education.While Edwards had graduated from Yale prior to beginning his ministry, Brother Sheffield had driven a beer truck prior to beginning his.While St. Paul saw the light and was converted on the way to Damascus, Brother Sheffield ran a red light while sampling too much of his employer’s product on road to the brewery.This may seem like a strange route to take to the ministry, but I digress.Despite his lack of formal education, Brother Sheffield could craft an image just as effective, if not as polished as Edwards’.Brother Sheffield’s favorite phrase was “the sulphurious smell of bodies burning in hell.”Every Sunday for two years I flinched and squirmed on the pew next to my mother as these words simultaneously assaulted my ears and my nose.To this day, I can’t light a sulphur match without flinching.Brother Sheffield was making highly effective use of olfactory imagery, which appeals to the sense of smell.He was also getting in a little alliteration, a type of figurative language an author uses when he repeats sounds for poetic effect “sulphurious smells” and “burning bodies.”
Another common type of figure of speech is personification.A writer uses personification when he gives human qualities, feelings, action, or characteristics to nonhuman entities.The nonhuman entities can be animals or inanimate (non-living) things.Here are some examples of the use of personification in the poetry of Emily Dickinson.In poem # 712, “I Could Not Stop for Death,” Emily presents Death as the driver of a carriage.In poem #986, “A Narrow Fellow in the Grass,” Dickinson gives human qualities to a snake when she refers to him as a “Fellow” and one of “Nature’s People.”
Please check out this link if you would like a little more informative about imagery and figurative language:
http://www.pfmb.unimb.si/eng/dept/eng/text/figlang.htm.
.
John Carey—
The oldest surviving literary work is The Epic of Gilgamesh. It wascomposed nearly 4,000 years ago in ancient Mesopotamia (roughly equivalent towhere Iraq and eastern Syria are now). No one knows who wrote it, or why, orwhat readership or audience it was intended for. It is preserved on claytablets in the earliest known alphabet, which is called cuneiform scriptbecause the scribes who wrote it formed the letters by making wedge-shaped(cuneiform) dents in wet clay with bits of reed.
For centuries the secret of how to read cuneiform script was lost. Then, inthe 1870s, a self-taught, working-class Londoner called George Smith, studyingclay tablets in the British Museum, cracked the code and brought The Epic ofGilgamesh to light.
The epic tells the story of a king, Gilgamesh, whose mother is a goddess.He rules the city of Uruk (now Warka in southern Iraq). He is a great warriorand builds a magnificent city using glazed bricks, a new technique. But he islustful and tyrannical, seizing and violating brides on their wedding day. Sothe gods create a wild man called Enkidu to stop Gilgamesh oppressing hispeople.
Enkidu is made from the clay the mother goddess washes from her hands, andhe is an animal rather than a human. He is covered in hair and lives with thegazelles, eating grass as they do. However, a votaress of the temple in Urukseduces him and after seven days and nights of fervent love-making he becomeshuman. She teaches him to wear clothes and eat human food.
Gilgamesh falls in love with Enkidu, caressing him like a woman. But whenEnkidu tries to stop him violating brides, they fight. They turn out to beequally matched, so they kiss and make friends and embark on heroic adventures.Together they go on a quest to the Cedar Forest and kill the monster Humbabawho lives there. This angers the gods, since Humbaba was their monster. WhileGilgamesh is washing after the fight the goddess Ishtar sees him, falls inlove, and proposes marriage. But she is the goddess of sex and violence and allher lovers come to a bad end, so Gilgamesh rejects her. She is angry, and callson her father, the sky god, to send another monster, the Bull of Heaven, tokill Gilgamesh. Instead Gilgamesh and Enkidu kill the Bull, which angers thegods still more, and they sentence Enkidu to death.
Gilgamesh mourns him bitterly and sets off to discover the secret ofeternal life. He is ferried across the waters of death and finds the immortalman Utnapishtim, who survived the great flood, in which all other humans died,by following the gods’ instructions and building a boat. Gilgamesh dives intothe ocean to find a plant that is said to make whoever possesses it youngagain. Though he finds it, and brings it to the surface, it is stolen by asnake, and Utnapishtim tells him that no one can defeat death. So Gilgameshreturns to Uruk, having learned that, though he is mighty and famous, he willbe equal in death with all other human beings.Symbolism Of Snake In The Epic Of Gilgamesh In The Bible
From A Little History of Poetry by John Carey. Published by Yale University Press in 2020. Reproduced with permission.
John Carey is emeritus professor at Oxford. His books include The Essential “Paradise Lost,” What Good Are the Arts?, studies of Donne and Dickens, and a biography of William Golding. The Unexpected Professor, his memoir, was a Sunday Times best-seller.The Epic Of Gilgamesh YoutubeFurther Reading:The Snake In The Epic Of GilgameshFeatured Image: Photo by Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin on Wikimedia Commons
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*Symbolism Of Snake In The Epic Of Gilgamesh In The Bible
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*The Snake In The Epic Of Gilgamesh
In the Epic of Gilgamesh, the serpent strikes at him (Gilgamesh) in his time of weakness- that is, whilst he is taking a bath. This similarly illustrates that the serpent knows that he is no match for the human when he (the human) is well aware of its strength and therefore preys on him during his weakest. The Inversion of the Hero’s Journey. A motif that dominates the latter half of Gilgamesh is that of the hero’s journey.Often seen as a timeless motif across cultures, the Hero’s Journey typically follows a lone protagonist as they arrive at transformation after a long journey alone and a series of decisive confrontations in which the hero is victorious. The Epic of Gilgamesh is the oldest written story in human history that has survived since the third millennium BCE. The Epic of Gilgamesh is an ancient Mesopotamian poem of telling a story about the epic adventures of a man named Gilgamesh, who is the King of Uruk, and his companion Enkidu.A Short Guide to Imagery, Symbolism, and Figurative Language How to download after effects for free mac.
by Andrea Clark
Imagery can be defined as a writer or speaker’s use of words or figures of speech to create a vivid mental picture or physical sensation.Many good examples of imagery and figurative language can be found in “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” a sermon delivered by the Puritan minister Jonathan Edwards.For example, Edwards creates a powerful image figurative language when he says:
‘We find it easy to tread on and crush a worm that we see crawling on the earth; so it is easy for God, when he pleases, to cast his enemies down to hell.”
The image Edwards creates here is the vivid mental picture of someone crushing a worm.Edwards is also using figurative language because he compares the ease with which God can “cast his enemies down to hell” with the ease of our crushing a worm beneath our feet.The point he is making is that human beings are as small and powerless in the eyes of God as worms are to us; just as a worm is at our mercies for its existence, so we are at God’s for our existence.The most important reason to analyze a writer’s usage of imagery and figurative is to recognize how it contributes to the point he is trying to make or the effect he is attempting to create.This is true whether the writer is Jonathan Edwards attempting to inspire terror in the hearts of his congregation or a sports writer for a newspaper trying to help his readers experience the excitement of a football game they were not able to see.If writers just throw a surplus of images and figures of speech into their writing, it seems artificial and amateurish, and it can be annoying.
Types of Imagery
Although the word “imagery” most often brings to mind mental images, imagery is not always visual; it can appeal to any of the five senses. Here is a list of some types of imagery that appeal to different senses:
*Auditory imagery appeals to the sense of hearing.
·Gustatory imagery appeals to the sense of taste.
·Kinetic imagery conveys a sense of motion.
·Olfactory imagery appeals to the sense of smell.
·Tactile imagery appeals to the sense of touch.
·Visual imagery is created with pictures (many visual images are pictures of things representing well-known sayings or phrases).
Symbolism
Writers often create images through the use of symbolism.Carl Jung defined a symbol as “a term, a name, or even a picture that may be familiar in daily life, yet that possesses specific connotations in addition to its conventional an obvious meaning.”Symbols can be based on culture, such as a country’s flag (stars and stripes=USA) , or religion (the cross=Christianity), or other things.Cultural symbols can vary from one culture to another.For instance, to most people in our culture, white is a symbol of innocence and purity, but this is not so in all cultures.Other symbols seem to be almost universal across cultures. For instance, in the literature of many lands, light is a symbol for knowledge, and darkness is associated with the unknown.Likewise, snakes often represent temptation, curiosity, and the pitfalls that we as human beings must face in order to learn, grow, and change.We see this in myths such the creation story in Genesis and “The Search for Everlasting Life” in The Epic of Gilgamesh.
Types of Figurative Language
When a writer compares something to something else it is not really like literally, he is using a metaphor.Human beings are not literally worms, but Edwards uses them to make his point.When an author makes a comparison using the word “like” or “as,” he is using a type of figurative language called a simile.A simile is exactly the same as a metaphor except that it has to have the words “like” or “as.”For instance, if Edwards had said, “We are like worms to God” or “God can crush us as easily as a worm,” he would have been creating a simile.
Another common type of figure of speech is hyperbole, an obvious exaggeration.For instance, during the first week of class I was monopolizing the faculty Xerox machine at CYP for long periods of time, much to the chagrin of other instructors who also needed to make copies.The reason I had to make so many copies is that the ACC bookstore did not order enough copies of the textbooks for most of my classes.As I was attempting to make copies of about 40 pages from the textbook for my World Literature I class, I apologetically explained to one of my colleagues that the bookstore had not ordered nearly enough copies of your text. “So you’re making copies of the whole book?” she asked in exasperation.“No,” I replied in response to her hyperbole, “this is only The Epic of Gilgamesh.”
When I was a teenager attending the First Missionary Baptist Church of Buna, I was forced to endure the sermons of Brother Drew Sheffield, a pastor who fancied himself East Texas’ answer to Jonathan Edwards.However, while this preacher equaled Edwards with regard to the frequency of references to hellfire and brimstone in his sermons, he unfortunately was not Edwards’ equal with regard to education.While Edwards had graduated from Yale prior to beginning his ministry, Brother Sheffield had driven a beer truck prior to beginning his.While St. Paul saw the light and was converted on the way to Damascus, Brother Sheffield ran a red light while sampling too much of his employer’s product on road to the brewery.This may seem like a strange route to take to the ministry, but I digress.Despite his lack of formal education, Brother Sheffield could craft an image just as effective, if not as polished as Edwards’.Brother Sheffield’s favorite phrase was “the sulphurious smell of bodies burning in hell.”Every Sunday for two years I flinched and squirmed on the pew next to my mother as these words simultaneously assaulted my ears and my nose.To this day, I can’t light a sulphur match without flinching.Brother Sheffield was making highly effective use of olfactory imagery, which appeals to the sense of smell.He was also getting in a little alliteration, a type of figurative language an author uses when he repeats sounds for poetic effect “sulphurious smells” and “burning bodies.”
Another common type of figure of speech is personification.A writer uses personification when he gives human qualities, feelings, action, or characteristics to nonhuman entities.The nonhuman entities can be animals or inanimate (non-living) things.Here are some examples of the use of personification in the poetry of Emily Dickinson.In poem # 712, “I Could Not Stop for Death,” Emily presents Death as the driver of a carriage.In poem #986, “A Narrow Fellow in the Grass,” Dickinson gives human qualities to a snake when she refers to him as a “Fellow” and one of “Nature’s People.”
Please check out this link if you would like a little more informative about imagery and figurative language:
http://www.pfmb.unimb.si/eng/dept/eng/text/figlang.htm.
.
John Carey—
The oldest surviving literary work is The Epic of Gilgamesh. It wascomposed nearly 4,000 years ago in ancient Mesopotamia (roughly equivalent towhere Iraq and eastern Syria are now). No one knows who wrote it, or why, orwhat readership or audience it was intended for. It is preserved on claytablets in the earliest known alphabet, which is called cuneiform scriptbecause the scribes who wrote it formed the letters by making wedge-shaped(cuneiform) dents in wet clay with bits of reed.
For centuries the secret of how to read cuneiform script was lost. Then, inthe 1870s, a self-taught, working-class Londoner called George Smith, studyingclay tablets in the British Museum, cracked the code and brought The Epic ofGilgamesh to light.
The epic tells the story of a king, Gilgamesh, whose mother is a goddess.He rules the city of Uruk (now Warka in southern Iraq). He is a great warriorand builds a magnificent city using glazed bricks, a new technique. But he islustful and tyrannical, seizing and violating brides on their wedding day. Sothe gods create a wild man called Enkidu to stop Gilgamesh oppressing hispeople.
Enkidu is made from the clay the mother goddess washes from her hands, andhe is an animal rather than a human. He is covered in hair and lives with thegazelles, eating grass as they do. However, a votaress of the temple in Urukseduces him and after seven days and nights of fervent love-making he becomeshuman. She teaches him to wear clothes and eat human food.
Gilgamesh falls in love with Enkidu, caressing him like a woman. But whenEnkidu tries to stop him violating brides, they fight. They turn out to beequally matched, so they kiss and make friends and embark on heroic adventures.Together they go on a quest to the Cedar Forest and kill the monster Humbabawho lives there. This angers the gods, since Humbaba was their monster. WhileGilgamesh is washing after the fight the goddess Ishtar sees him, falls inlove, and proposes marriage. But she is the goddess of sex and violence and allher lovers come to a bad end, so Gilgamesh rejects her. She is angry, and callson her father, the sky god, to send another monster, the Bull of Heaven, tokill Gilgamesh. Instead Gilgamesh and Enkidu kill the Bull, which angers thegods still more, and they sentence Enkidu to death.
Gilgamesh mourns him bitterly and sets off to discover the secret ofeternal life. He is ferried across the waters of death and finds the immortalman Utnapishtim, who survived the great flood, in which all other humans died,by following the gods’ instructions and building a boat. Gilgamesh dives intothe ocean to find a plant that is said to make whoever possesses it youngagain. Though he finds it, and brings it to the surface, it is stolen by asnake, and Utnapishtim tells him that no one can defeat death. So Gilgameshreturns to Uruk, having learned that, though he is mighty and famous, he willbe equal in death with all other human beings.Symbolism Of Snake In The Epic Of Gilgamesh In The Bible
From A Little History of Poetry by John Carey. Published by Yale University Press in 2020. Reproduced with permission.
John Carey is emeritus professor at Oxford. His books include The Essential “Paradise Lost,” What Good Are the Arts?, studies of Donne and Dickens, and a biography of William Golding. The Unexpected Professor, his memoir, was a Sunday Times best-seller.The Epic Of Gilgamesh YoutubeFurther Reading:The Snake In The Epic Of GilgameshFeatured Image: Photo by Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin on Wikimedia Commons
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