Heroism in GilgameshHeroism involves several things; a selfless act, courage or the achievements of daring and daring expeditions. A hero can often have divine ancestry. But every hero has faults and these faults, as well as heroic acts, make the man or the woman; a hero. Gilgamesh loved his friend Enkidu more than he loved himself. A sentence indicating this love for Enkidu is found on page 35: "We must go down to the forest together./. . .I will go before you/And ...... middle of paper ......h the heroic and non-heroic qualities differently In the end we are all the same, we have no choice, we all have to deal with each other's Gilgamesh.., 1972.