3.

Climax
Enraged at being rejected by Gilgamesh, Ishtar sends the Bull of Heaven down to earth,
intending to have it kill Gilgamesh and Enkidu. But the heroes, fresh from killing Humbaba,
are clearly on a roll, and they make swift work of the Bull.

This represents the high point of their monster-killing prowess. And the high point of the
heroes' egomania comes when Enkidu tears off one of the Bull's legs and throws it in Ishtar's
face and the gods aren't about to let them get away with any of it.

Shortly after having a dream in which Enlil, the king of the gods, condemns him to die, Enkidu
develops a mysterious illness and dies a painful death.

4. Falling Action:
2. Rising Action
Sure enough, these two musclemen do go head-to-head ___
__ ___ Once Enkidu dies, Gilgamesh's life loses all meaning,
with each
__other but then quickly put aside their differences ___ and he becomes tormented with the fear of death. He
and become
__ the best of friends. In no time, thanks to ______ decides that the only thing to do is to meet Utanapishtim,
__ bright idea, they find someone else to
Gilgamesh's
______ the one human being who has been granted immortality
__ a beating to: the monster Humbaba.
administer ______ ___by the gods. He sets off on a journey beyond the Eastern
The real__ conflict seems to come later, when Gilgamesh ______
__ ___edge of the earth, where the sun rises, to find out the
and Enkidu return triumphantly to Uruk, carrying the ______ ___secret of immortality.
__ ______
monster's head. Trouble shows up in the form of Ishtar, the
__ ______
goddess of love and war. Ishtar, the goddess, wants ______ ______
__ ______
Gilgamesh
__ to take her as his wife. Gilgamesh refuses, and ______
______ ______
not too __nicely.
______ ______
__ ______
__ 6. Conflict ______
__ ______ ______
__ Ishtar, the goddess, wants Gilgamesh___to
___
__ take her as his wife. Gilgamesh refuses, ______ 5. Resolution:
__ ______ ___ ___
__ 1. Exposition and not too nicely. ___ Gilgamesh finally gets to speak to Utanapishtim
__
Gilgamesh ___ ______and learns that immortality isn't for everyone. The
__ sent by Sun God to rule
__
__ King Gilgamesh is treating
over Uruk. ___ ______only people to get it are Utanapishtim and his wife,
__ ______after they survived the Flood; Gilgamesh can't hope
__ in cruelly. The gods hear the
his people ___ for the gods to make a similar exception on his
__
__complaints and create Enkidu ___ behalf. But, thanks to some wifely intervention,
people's
__ ______Gilgamesh learns about the mysterious flower that
__
as Gilgamesh's equal. So Gilgamesh, a ___will make anyone who eats young again. He even
__
__
mindlessly ___gets the flower—but then a snake steals it.
__ selfish macho-man who has
__
not known
___So much for Gilgamesh's plans to cheat death.
__ true friendship, and Enkidu, When Gilgamesh and Urshanabi arrive back in
__
a mindless,
__
_ uncivilized wild-man, who Uruk, Gilgamesh brags about the magnificent
__ known a woman. It's a match
has never architectural features of the city.

made _____in heaven, and these two dudes

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are set up to rock each others' worlds.
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