Women and Power in Oedipus Rex

Women repre direct knowledge, information and temptations. They also have the office staff to create, ruin and destroy. There argon a lot of goddesses and women in these stories, Gilgamesh, The Iliad, and the Oedipus Rex. These women affect the lives of these men positively and negatively. The arguments that occur in these stories by the women ar instigated by their power, person-to-person behaviors, and emotions that affect the events and situations that occur in the stories.\nIn Gilgamesh, there are two women who portray wisdom, and learning. wholeness is Shamhat; she is a temple prostitute. Shamhat was sent to mellow the wild- homo Enkidu who the Sumerian gods created to await Gilgamesh of his bad behaviors. Uruk complain to the Sumerian gods about Gilgamesh overbearing behavior, and so the gods create the wild man Enkidu to confront Gilgamesh (1.34). Shamhat drew Enkidu approximate to her, Six days, seven nights was Enkidu aroused, stream into Shamhat (1.42.186). Enkidu and Shamhat had sex, this sexual intercourse false Enkidu into a civilized gracious and handsome young man. You are handsome, Enkidu you are become analogous a god, why stray the steppe with wild beasts? Come, let me deport you to raptured Uruk (1 42.200-203). Shamhat convinced Enkidu that he do not belong to the forest he belongs to a graze where civilized men lives, Enkidu accepts the purport to go to Uruk. After only what Shamhat had done for Enkidu transforming him into a substantial man, he was not appreciative. He turn around and jinxs her whitethorn your purple finery be expropriated, may filthy underwear be what you are given, because you diminished me, an innocent, Yes me, an innocent, you wronged me in my steppe (VII-68.82-85). Enkidu did not bring in that Shamhat was preparing him for his trials ahead, Shamash hears Enkidu chap Shamhat the harlot and made him realize that all she did was to prepare him for the future, and turned him into a great belligeren t O Enkidu, why curse Shamhat the ha...