still would have gotten part of the inheritance without taking t! ! he first-son birth rights from his brother, and Gilgamesh still could get access to the cedar trees without killing Humbaba, yet that was not enough for them. Most people would not find their life as fulfilling without adventure. In Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck sees life as an adventure and lives it out in that fashion. Huck runs away from home and lives through many perils for basically sheer excitement. "We said there warn't no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft doesn't. You feel mighty free and easy, and comfortable on a raftwhat he (Tom) had planned in his head from the start was for us to run him down the river on a raft, and have adventures plumb to the mouth of the river" Huck was expected to live a normal life, learning manners and conforming to social norms, yet that did not please him. He looked for adventure in life and realized that a life on a raft would be more fulfilling. The Epic of Gilgamesh carries the same theme because Gilgamesh is constantly searching and going on adventures to distance places, kill! ! in the Bull of Heaven, Humbaba, and the lions in the passes of the mountain. He searches for these adventures because he wants to make the most out of life. Just being king and never leaving the city can be monotonous and boring. Gilgamesh travels to distant forests and crosses "the waters of death" for, what amounts to, an adventure. He is searching for something worth living for. Just as we, as people, can not live everyday doing absolutely nothing. This theme tells us that we all need some adventure in our lives to make it worth living. It is just like riding a roller coaster, living for the anticipation of the r...
