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Assignment:
Tablet IV: Answer 2 questions
1. What do sleep and dreams represent in literature (film, any fictional/nonfictional text)? Brainstorm.
2. What do all of Gilgamesh's dreams in this tablet have in common? Describe them. What do you think is the significance of his dreams? Why these dreams now?
Tablet V: Answer 2 questions
1. What does Humbaba say to Enkidu? How are Humbaba and Enkidu similar? (see especially p. 41).
2. In this Tablet, how does Enkidu transform before our very eyes? And why, do you think?
3. Describe the slaying of Humbaba. What is the language, the images the author uses to depict the battle?
4. After Humbaba's death, what do they do to his corpse? And what do they do after the slaying? More importantly, perhaps, what does the author think about the slaying? In other words, does the story sanction this killing?