Similarities Between The Odyssey And Enkidu's Dream

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The Underworld is a place where most souls of the dead live. “The Odyssey”and “Enkidu 's Dream” are two stories that describe how the underworld would be like when one encounters it. The Odyssey describes the underworld as a place filled with unhappiness and misery and that punishment will be served in the underworld to the wrongdoers . While, Enkidu 's Dream describes the underworld ad a very dark, unpleasant and scary place to be in, where no one looks forward to pass away due to it. Accepting fate and having fate plays a major role in both stories. Odysseus in The Odyssey accepted his fate, while Enkidu in “Enkidu 's Dream”had fate, but did not accept it. The Odyssey and “Enkidu 's Dream” have a similar concept on what a person can experience in an afterlife taken place in the underworld as a dreadful and awful setting …show more content…

Enkidu 's dream depicts the underworld as place “from which no one enters ever returns”. It is a place where “people sit in darkness; dust in their food and clay in their meat”. All “who wore kingly crowns....stood now like servants” The underworld is a place where anyone dreads to be in because “the end of life is sorrow” the reason why Enkidu had a dream of his fate in the underworld proves that he is truly guilty of unrighteousness. According to Enkidu, he angered the gods by being accused of “cut[ting] down the cedar,...levell[ing] the forest...[and] slew[ing] Humbaba”. Not only has Enkidu not accepted what he has seen in his dream of the underworld, but piercingly cursed his fate because the “great goddess cursed”him. Enkidu unaccepted his fate because knowing he will face death and suffer in the underworld forever. Therefore, if the Underworld in “Enkidu 's Dream” was as elaborated as the Underworld in The Odyssey, Enkidu would have accepted death as part of life and may of not committed the

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