Fate in Gilgamesh and the Iliad Stories don't need to inform us of things. From Gilgamesh, for example, we know that some of the people who lived in the land between the Tigris and Euphates rivers in the second and third millennium BC We know that they celebrated a king named Gilgamesh; we know that they believed in many gods; we know that they were aware of their own cultivation of the natural world; and we know they were literate. In the story of the Iliad we also know that great rulers and gods ruled and that lands had the highest priority. The point is that it can be argued that the story of Gil-gamesh and the fate of the Iliad are more or less the same in remembering the wars and lifestyle, both of the story, from complete to significant death. In hand that takes you back to both epic poems. In the story of Gilgamesh it is important to look carefully at what happened in the tale; that is, look at it as if the actions and people it describes actually happened or existed. Questions raised by a character's actions discuss the implications of their consequences. But it's not about how the story is constructed, but rather how it uses the conventions of language, events with beginnings and endings, character descriptions, and the narrative itself to awaken our sensitivity to the real world. The real world is the world without conventions, the unnameable and unrepresentable world: in its continuity of action, in its nuances and confusions of character, in its indecipherable models of being. The story of the Iliad and Gilgamesh is very reminiscent of what life is like today; just different over time but not to mention similar in objectives and destiny. Furthermore, in Gilgamesh's prologue it is revealed that he was two-thirds god and one-third man, and his knowledge is the key to this. Gilgamesh is a hero: more beautiful, more courageous, more terrifying than any of us; his desires, attributes, and accomplishments embody ours. But he is also mortal: he must experience the death of others and also die himself. How much more must a god rage against the death of us who are merely mortal! And if he can reconcile himself to death, then surely we can too. Without death, in fact, his life would have no meaning and the adventures that make up the epic would disappear.