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Checkpoint: Comparing Treatments — Homework
Review your notes on Gilgamesh and Icarus from Weeks 19 and 20 before answering.
- 1.What limit does each character refuse to accept -- Gilgamesh, and then Icarus?
- 2.How does the ending of Gilgamesh's story differ from the ending of Icarus's story?
- 3.Which story's treatment of "refusing a limit" do you find more effective as a lesson? Give one specific reason.
- 4.Using evidence from both stories, write a complete two- to three-sentence comparison of how they treat the same underlying idea.
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