Invulnerability in World Literature
Subject Areas : Interdisciplinary studies
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Keywords: Death, Immortality, Gilgamesh, Invulnerability, Water of Life,
Abstract :
Human being as a creature, who is alive and is thoughtful about death, endeavors to find a solution to get away when death threatens his life. This wish and the fear from death created on aim to desire to be immortal and motivated man to compose legends of invulnerable hero’s with eternal life to satisfy his thirst for an eternal life under the ever-lasting names of these heroes. One way to achieve this goal in a comparative approach of the concept, has been studies. Invulnerability has been categorized, compared and summed up in these mythological stories: Gilgamesh – the most ancient world epic – Alexander and his seeking for elixir of life; Achilles in Greek literature; Balder one of the famous Scandinavian mythologies; Siegfried – the well known German Invulnerable and Esfandiar the Iranian clerical heroic prince.
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