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The Cruelty Of Bullfight Convey Through John London

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The Cruelty of Bullfight Convey Through John London
Bullfighting is a bloodthirsty sporting event which involves the slaughtering of bulls. The bulls are stabbed multiple times before suffering slow, agonizing deaths in front of an audience, including children. The dripping of blood, sparks their interests in this cruel event. Bullfighting is common in Spain, France and Latin America. Through the use of imagery and word choice, Jack London’s excerpt from The Madness of John Harned best conveys the cruelty of bullfighting.
In the literacy excerpt London portrays an image of matador (a bullfighter) driving a “…sword to the heart, and the bull doubled his legs under him and lay down and died.” This shows the matador thrusting a sword through the bull’s heart and how cruel it was. Bullfighting itself is very eluding because the matadors twirls a bright red “…cape eluding the bull” to its death. Bulls are color-blind to the color red, and are likely irritated not by the color but by the cape’s …show more content…

“…The matador thrust a sword between the animal’s shoulder blades for the kill” the matador may have to make several bloody thrusts before the sword stay in and the bull finally dies.” The author emphasize thrust to tell the readers how the matador drove the sword upward with many powerful thrust into the bull for the kill. This however does not convey cruelty but however shows weakness of the matador and the strength of the bull. The Madness of John Harned by John London best conveys cruelty because what shows cruelty than dehydrating the bull. “For is it not known to all of us that for twenty-four hours the bull is given no water,…” giving the bull no water is a cruel act, which puts the bull in a weaken state to fight against the matador, so therefore this express the cruelty of

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