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01 | 14 - Additional Narratives: Flood Compare and Contrast
Objective: Analyze where a story is set, how the action is ordered, how the characters are introduced and developed.
Now that you have spend some time looking at the three narratives provided in some more detail it is time for you to investigate this phenomenon even further.
Consider what would have been "global" in early human history. If you were in a small tribe and most were wiped out in a flash flood then to you, that would have been global. It is only now that we understand the world to be so much larger. I think about the horrible Tsunami that wiped out over 100,000 people in 2004. If something like that were to have happened 100,000 to 200,000 years ago, we would certainly have myths about that event that would have talked about a global cataclysm. We cannot view it through our modern lens since their world would have been much different and smaller.
There are more flood narratives listed here. Your task now is to choose one more flood narrative and compare it to the flood narratives you have learned so far (Genesis, Gilgamesh Epic, and Greek Myth Flood Narratives). Use the link to help guide you. What similarities do you notice? Any major differences?
Refer to all three already covered in this course (Genesis, Gilgamesh Epic, and Greek Myth Flood Narratives) while writing your comparison essay. Why do you think that this particular story has been told in so many cultures? (Hint: That last question can be your conclusion paragraph.)
Reminder: Do not just compare all three stories we read in class. Your assignment is to compare a flood narrative that we did not read with the flood narratives we did read (Genesis, Gilgamesh Epic, and Greek Myth Flood Narratives). See link above for a list of more flood narratives if you need ideas.
Explanation & Answer
Attached. Please let me know if you have any questions or need revisions.
OUTLINE, Comparison of Flood Narratives
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Preamble
o Almost all cultures have flood stories
o They are associated with a Supreme Being a form of punishment.
o These stories usually have almost the same structure and storyline
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Flood Narratives & comparisons
o Perhaps the most well-known flood story is the biblical one because of the depth of
religion globally.
o The Greek Myth brings forth its flood narrative that takes the same structure as the
Genesis one.
o In the Gilgamesh epic, there is a god called Enlil who also brings floods to destroy
humankind.
o These four stories have similarities. In every story, there is a God who creates and
decides to destroy it later on.
o In the Gilgamesh, Genesis, and the Greek Myths narrative, the gods get angry at
humankind for breaking the rules or committing sin. In essence, humanity gets
destroyed because of its mistakes
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Conclusion
o The story has been told in many cultures, which perhaps points to the possibility
that the flood was an actual event.
o The descendants of these cultures may have been at the heart of the same event, but
retelling th...
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