Discuss the emotional tone Enuma Elish and how it affects the reader’s experience.

The author's tone is melodramatic, using violent, graphic imagery. The reader is drawn into the story by the supernatural, yet, realstic illustrations painted by the author.

“She was furious and shouted at her lover;

She shouted dreadfully and was beside herself with rage,

But then suppressed the evil in her belly.”

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“The gods, unable to rest, had to suffer . . .

They plotted evil in their hearts”

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“He split her up like a flat fish into two halves;

One half of her established as a covering for heaven.”