Bullfighting In Spanish Culture

Although bullfighting is an important culture for people in Spain, which represents pride in a man against a beast in combat, it is animal cruelty against bulls who were brought up in this bloodshed culture.

Before bulls were presented in the bullring, they are tortured for days and kept in dark rooms. Bulls have wet newspapers stuffed into their ears, vaseline rubbed into their eyes to blur their visions, cotton is stuffed inside their nostrils to cut off respiration and many more treatments they have to endure.

Six bulls to be killed by six matadors are required in this traditional Corrida and each encounter lasts for fifteen minutes. The Corrida generally starts at five PM and the three matadors, each followed by their assistants, the banderillas and the picadors, marched into the arena and the

After the banderillas are done, the final act the crowd has been waiting for is the matador. The matador hides the estoque with the muleta and carefully maneuvers around the bull. The matador comes close to the bull and quickly reveals the sword out of the red cape and plunges the sword between the shoulder blades of the bull.

The bull isn’t the only creature who suffers in the arena, hundreds of horses die when they are gored to death by charging bulls. Horses also had to face horrible treatments such as having their vocal chords cut off, getting wet newspapers stuffed into their ears and being blindfolded. After an act ends, the horses are forced to drag the dead bull’s body away from the arena.

EQ: Has the cultural significance changed from the past to the present?

Bullfighting has significantly changed from the past to the present. It became a popular warm-up in gladiatorial sports in Ancient Rome and soon, developed into a bullfight we’ve known