The Royal Hunt of the Sun :: essays papers

The royal stag bunk of the SunThe Royal Hunt of the Sun is a narrative chiefly based on the conquest ofPeru by Spain. Along the way it explores umpteen different sub-themes andideas. Questions are raised about faith, friendship, leadership, greedand cardinal distinctively different ways of life. The two main charactersexhibit conflicting views on all the issues.The overthrow of the Peruvian Empire is a phenomenal story as itdemonstrates the vulnerability of a society that considered itselfalmost indestructible. It showed how focused a civilisation stub be on mavin leader, and how simply it can collapse when this leadership isremoved. Pizarro recognised this and that is how his small regular army ofalmost two hundred conquered a nation of millions. He told his menOne human thats all. Get him, the rest collapse. (page 28)The conquest of Peru was a clash surrounded by two religions that wereimmediately very different tho similar in principal. Christianity wasa religion w ith a rapidly expanding following. Its leaders virtually tending(p) permission for Christians to kill in order to spread thefaith. This occurred in The Royal Hunt of the Sun when the non-Christian priestsinferred that Pizarro should take the life of Attahuallpa so that theSpanish would depart and the Christian belief would spread throughoutSouth America. The priest Valverde utter the lives of a hundred andseventy of the faithful. Are you going to sacrifice them for onesavage? (page 70) On the other hand the Inca belief was a curing moresettled and humane. The Inca God and ruler Atahuallpa claimed I havepriest powerI confess my people of all crimes against the sun. (page19) They both believed in a supreme being, who would be killed by itsenemies and rise from the dead.Pizarro and Atahuallpa came from similar backgrounds but theirimmediate appearance was quite different. When they came togethertheir similarities became evident and their friendship flourished at anearly s tage. While Atahuallpa was Pizarros captive he said strain mefree. I would fill this room. (With gold) (page 43) However, whenAtahuallpa produces the gold Pizarro qualifies his promise thus Atahuallpa, you must say to me that you will not hurt a man in myarmy if I let you go. (page 60) I will not swear this Atahuallpareplied. one-third thousand of my servants they killed in the square.Three thousand, without arms. I will avenge them. (page 60) This