Many parallels can be drawn between the ancient "Epic of Gilgamesh" and the modern film "Fight Club." While thousands of years separate the stories, both the epic and the film describe an anti-hero who is awakened into a journey by another hero, and the anti-hero learns valuable lessons from the second hero. ... Both The Epic of Gilgamesh and Fight Club explore themes such as civilized versus uncivilized and the threat of mortality. ... " While keeping the anti-hero parallel between Gilgamesh and the narrator in mind, each story introduces a second hero that awakens the anti-hero into a ...

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The concept of hero conveys to mind various images to different people. ... In the epic story of the Odyssey, Odysseus the main character was subjected to various life threatening situations such as when he and his men were captured by the Cyclops and held captive in his cave. ... In the epic of Gilgamesh, the Bull of Heaven was sent to earth for killing Humbababa, to cause famine and kill the people of Uruk. ... On the same note, the epic story of The Ramayana of Valmiki, Rama showed acts of selfless-service by protecting his counterpart in life Sita during the attack of the crow and saving h...

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In the domain of epic verse, heroes of god-like may, go off and fulfill awesome things, while managing gods and mortal creatures alike. ... His extraordinary spirit has appeared all through the whole epic. ... Odysseus was at the time a screw-up, much the same as Gilgamesh was before all else of his epic. ... The two heroes are thought about as articulations of looks for this significance of life through learning. At last, both of our extraordinary heroes, Gilgamesh and Odysseus were liable to the same difficulties we confront today. ...

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