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    A Critical Analysis of the Prompts in the light of Greek Literature
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Prompt One:
A) The three ways in which, Gilgamesh and Genesis are similar can be stated in the following manner:
At first, both the events are inspired from Anger of God/gods over the mankind. Gods seem to have a different opinion about the mankind. It is more like something that proves god’s supremacy over human beings. However, the problem lies with the behavior of human beings as they are filled with engrave emotions. It annoys gods to see in Gilgamesh that humans are simply noisy and they disturb their life in heaven. Secondly, the supremacy of divine powers has been put on priority in both the texts. Gods prove that they are superior by all means to human beings. Finally, the two texts are similar in the sense that they showcase the eternal relationship of folly and wisdom where folly belongs to mankind while wisdom lies in the decisions of God taken.
B) The floods can be contrasted on the three bases of objective of anger, their time in which they are written as well as the existence of Golden Age in Gilgamesh. The gods were angry in Gilgamesh because humans were too noisy to be tolerated by them, “The uproar of mankind is intolerable and sleep is no longer possible by reasons of the Babel" (Gilgamesh 12). While in Genesis, the evil nature of mankind forced God to rethink over his decision to make humankind grow in earth, “It repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart" (Gen. 6:6) secondly, the two texts are written in two different time period; Gilgamesh is believed to be written in 2000 BC while Genesis is framed in 400 BC. Finally, the two floods can be contrasted on the bases of Golden age, a period when it was assumed that gods used to allow Demigods or half humans to exist on earth—it is stated in Gilgamesh while it is absent in Genesis. This difference of time of their writing serves the main difference between the texts. Also, the existence of characters creates differences between them as well.
C) The Symbolism plays a vital role in both the events. The symbolic nuisance created by humans becomes the reason of their downfall in Gilgamesh and their wickedness becomes the source of anger for God in Genesis. For example, gods in Gilgamesh think that by creating humans, they might have done a grave error. The humans are too noisy to tolerate. It simply destroys their normal life in heaven to see how human voice disturbs their routine affairs. In Genesis, the anger of God is symbolic because it is inspired from the wickedness of human beings. People are too wicked to be afforded by God. He never created humans with this objective. It simply disappoints Him to see how humans have behaved so far.
D) The two floods reveal that human nature is subjected to change according to the time and power that they get. The nature of evil is closely associated with the personality of human beings but still, they can be good enough—in the form of characters like Gilgamesh—so that they can justify their position before Almighty. On the one hand human beings do not show any positive signs when they show conflict with each other. They appear to be pure form of evil. It is against the God’s design to show evil, as per the purpose of God behind making humans. But at the same time, there is a hint of goodness also in human beings. In fact, they are not pure evil. In some cases, they can show exceptional amount of goodness like Gilgamesh does. He follows God’s command and obeys Him throughout.
Prompt Two:
Antigone and Creon are the two major figures in Antigone, the second part of the Oedipus Trilogy by Sophocles. Antigone represents the true heroism—if she is contrasted with the character of Creon—as she rises against the set conventions of not burying the traitors. Even at the face of death, she is always ready to bury her brother and there is none that can prevent her from moving further, “you can be what you want to be. But I will bury him; and if I must die, I say that this crime is holy: I shall lie down with him in death” (Antigone, 53-56). If observed closely, she excels Creon in terms of...