What is the pattern of growth in the story of Gilgamesh's quest?

Question

From the Epic of Gilgamesh.

Answer 1

He begins as a tyrant king (really a big baby), learns friendship from Enkidu (boyhood), learns loss and the fear of death when Enkidu dies (adulthood), and eventually learns to accept the inevitability of death and the worth of living anyway through the lessons of Utnapishtam and the walls Gilgamesh himself built for Urshanabi (a sort of enlightenment, I suppose, which comes to him as he is transitioning to old age).