REVIEW QUESTIONS 1 Compare the stories of the heroes Gilgamesh Buluqiya and Beowulf How is each hero both similar to and different from each of the other heroes What is the relationship between each of these heroes and their respective second selves What happens to the hero and what happens to the second self in each story What is each hero seeking How is each hero s search different What is the personality of each hero a Similarities between Gilgamesh Buluqiya and Beowulf i Buluqiya and Gilgamesh 1 Both searching for immortality 2 Both cross seas 3 Both encounter a tree guarding giant 4 Both go to landscapes filled with gemstones 5 Both royal sons of kings 6 Neither achieved immortality ii Beowulf and Buluqiya 1 Both come to the sate of mind where its ok not to be immortal physically as long as you are honored and remembered in another way i Buluqiya ended unhappy and didn t come to the conclusion stated b Differences above ii Beowulf is seeking lof aka praise and glory c Heroes and their second selves i Buluqiya and Affan 1 Affan dies 2 Affan is his guide in finding immortality and together they are sacrilegious as they are trying to become god like and steal form a corpse ii Gilgamesh and Enkidu 1 Enkidu dies 2 They are best friends but polar opposites a Gilgamesh represents royalty and society while b Gilgamesh harms and is cruel to his people while Enkidu nature Enkidu iii Beowulf and Wiglaf 1 Beowulf dies 2 Wiglaf is relative and follower to Beowulf 2 What is the role of the gods in each of the hero stories Gilgamesh Buluqiya and Beowulf What effect do the actions of the gods have on the lives of the heroes in question How does the monotheism Islam of the author of the Tale of Buluqiya affect the way that author portrays the involvement of the gods or lack thereof in his work How does the monotheism Christianity of the author of Beowulf affect the way that author portrays the involvement of the gods or lack thereof in his work a How their actions lead their lives i Gilgamesh s actions get Enkidu killed and makes him want immortality 1 Makes him go on the journey that changes his mind about immortality and makes him content with just being remember by the walls he built around Uruk ii Buliqiya s actions get his second self Affan killed and makes him end life unhappily iii Beowulf s actions make him achieve his goals of finding lof as he was praised and glorified at this death b Monotheism vs Christianity i monotheism in Buluqiya makes him be considered fully mortal and the only god talked about in the story is Allah ii monotheism Christianity in Beowulf make no gods present in the story but the religion is showed by the way they burry Beowulf 3 Distinguish between the events of the Tale of Buluqiya which we did read and the events of the frame narrative of the Thousand and One Nights which we did NOT read the frame narrative features Shahriar and Scheherazade i Buluqiya is a king and his father is dying Before he dies his father tells him to check all of their possessions He does and finds an old gold box that has a parchment in Greek on it showing how old the box is because Greek was no longer a language Parchment tells of the ring of prophet Sulaiman It says that when Adam was expelled from the garden the angel Eden gave the ring to Gabriel The ring gives the holder the power of over all human being essentially giving god like powers Says how the ring is not easy to find as one has to cross the Seven Seas without sail but by walking on it If a person wants the ring the have to get magic plant sap and put it on their feet so they can walk across the waters To find the said plant you have to go to the Queen of the underground Once you have the ring you have to go to the Fountain of Life and drink from it to be god like as the fountain gives you beauty youth wisdom and immortality The sage Affan must serve as a guide across the waters Yamlika gives Affan and Buluqiya the magic plant but tells that that getting the ring is a bad idea and offers them an alternative plant that would give them eternal youth They deny it Buluqiya and Affan travel over the Seven Seas crossing fantastic landscapes They go to the Isle of the First Seas to find that all of the trees are covered with brilliant gem stones Then they go to the isle of the seventh sea and find a fruit tree They go get fruit from the tree and a giant comes out and tells them that they will not eat from the tree The tree is ii actually the tree of knowledge as the giant says that Adam had eaten from it On the isle of the seventh sea they find the tomb of Sulaiman Affan goes to get the ring off the dead body of Sulaiman and when he does Buluqiya says a spell and dust goes everywhere making Affan scared Buluqiya at a loss as he doesn t have his god and doesn t know what to do In second half of Tale of Buluqiya not in Reader king of Jinn the king of the Genies takes Buluqiya off island and Buluqiya goes onto a completely new adventure In the Sassanid Empire Shahriar is the sultana and the Sassanid king One day he catches his wife the Sultaness coming adultery He gets so mad that he gets her killed He doesn t get over it though and becomes very angry with all women in general He starts to go around and picking women to marry to just take their virginity on their wedding night and then kill them the morning after The vizier s daughter Scheherazade or Shahrazad decides to volunteer to marry the sultan with the purpose of putting a stop to the killing of women leaving her father begging for her not to do it Scheherazade comes up with a plan She marries the sultan and after they sleep together she starts telling him a story and doesn t finish it purposely So the next morning instead of killing her he says that he s going to keep her around so she can finish the story Instead of just finishing the story and stopping Scheherazade starts to tell another story doing the same thing as before and not finishing it She repeats this process for 1001 nights After the one thousand and one nights the sultan has been transformed by the stories and decides to pardon Scheherazade saying that he is no longer going to kill her or any other women 1 Scheherazade as the hero in the story 4 Compare the beginning of creation in Vedic Norse and Egyptian accounts What is the first element of the cosmos water or something else …
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