'Women and Power in Oedipus Rex'

'Women repre move knowledge, acquaintance and temptations. They also view the power to fix, come apart and destroy. There atomic number 18 a plentitude of goddesses and women in these stories, Gilgamesh, The Iliad, and the Oedipus Rex. These women proceed the lives of these men positively and negatively. The arguments that pass along in these stories by the women atomic number 18 instigated by their power, in-person behaviors, and emotions that affect the events and situations that occur in the stories.\nIn Gilgamesh, there atomic number 18 two women who submit wisdom, and learning. One is Shamhat; she is a temple prostitute. Shamhat was sent to mellow the ferocious- gay Enkidu who the Sumerian gods created to confront Gilgamesh of his grown behaviors. Uruk complain to the Sumerian gods about Gilgamesh positive behavior, and so the gods create the wild man Enkidu to confront Gilgamesh (1.34). Shamhat draw Enkidu closer to her, half a dozen days, seven nights was Enk idu aroused, period into Shamhat (1.42.186). Enkidu and Shamhat had sex, this sexual talk saturnine Enkidu into a civilized military man and handsome preadolescent man. You are handsome, Enkidu you are become analogous a god, why roam the steppe with wild beasts? Come, let me pencil lead you to raptured Uruk (1 42.200-203). Shamhat convinced Enkidu that he do non belong to the tone he belongs to a place where civilized men lives, Enkidu accepts the s wholey to go to Uruk. later on all what Shamhat had do for Enkidu transforming him into a sincere man, he was non appreciative. He glum around and annoyances her may your purple finery be expropriated, may wicked underwear be what you are given, because you pointless me, an innocent, Yes me, an innocent, you wronged me in my steppe (VII-68.82-85). Enkidu did non realize that Shamhat was preparing him for his trials ahead, Shamash hears Enkidu disapprobation Shamhat the harlot and do him realize that all she did wa s to prepare him for the future, and turned him into a salient hero O Enkidu, why curse Shamhat the ha... '