Stephen Fellows- Conquering Nature

In his section entitled the Mountain and the Tower Evan Eisenberg discusses the attempt of men to conquer Nature. One of the myths that he retells is the myth of Gilagamesh and Enkindu. Enkindu is the wild clone of Gilgamesh who Gilgamesh has to tame. This myth discusses a theme that I find very important. In the last thousand years the Western world has viewed nature as something that needed to be conquered. Many Europeans believed that God had given them the world to do with as they please. When they came to the America’s they believed that the Indians were not using the land so they had no claim to it. Many people have a love hate relationship with the land. They love the idea of having it, working it themselves but at the same time they want it to be developed the way they want and in many instances destroy it