Gilgamesh, although a strong powerful man inside and outside, is very hurt and grieves Enkidu´s death. Gilgamesh journeys to Utnapishtim to find out about death, all the questions Enkidu has raised and how it could be avoided. Gilghamesh does not make any sort of attempt to forget Enkidu, he does exactly the opposite. I feel that Gilgamesh going into the wild and dressing woth the attire that he did is something which symbolizes how much he misses and still remembers Enkidu.
A significant moment in these tablets I think is when Gilgamesh alone and unaccompanied has to face the monster and In my opinion is the only true time that Gilgamesh is afraid given the fact that it is the first time he faces a monster since Enkidu died, hence alone. I don´t think that he fears death, i think he just has a fear of being alone and insecure and not being comfortable and having his "brother", beside him.
The fear I was talking about can be understood in this extract from tablet 9 page 50: "Terror in the body of Gilgamesh seized hold of him from within and held him there in terror. But then in terror, he went forward."
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