Death In Francisco Pizarro's The Royal Hunt Of The Sun

Death is a fact of life. It is emblematic of 'the Unknown '; it is the gravest of all misfortunes. It is an enigma with which man has been so obsessed. The supreme puzzle of poets, the source of mankind 's anxiety, and the inevitable fate of all things living, death has been man 's unconquered enemy since his creation. It is true that man has conquered epidemics, succeeded in reducing mortality rate and learned how to transplant organs; even so, he cannot live for ever and death continues to represent his most impenetrable mystery. When someone dies and is buried, we ask ourselves where he will go and what will happen to him. We can never get a satisfying answer, however. Man 's fear of death leads him to deny it. He deceives himself into believing that death will happen to others, but not to him. In fact, all of us, except for those who are deeply religious and consider death day and night, cannot imagine their mortality. This fact is vocalized by Francisco Pizarro in The Royal Hunt of the Sun when he says: …show more content…
Ambivalence is a term we often use to denote the presence of two opposing ideas, attitudes or emotions at the same time. It is "a state of having simultaneous, conflicting feelings towards a person or thing. In other words, to be ambivalent is to have thoughts and emotions of both positive and negative valence towards someone or something. A common example of ambivalence is the feeling of both love and hatred for a person" (Wikipedia 1). The term also refers to situations where we experience mixed feelings of a more general sort, or where someone feels uncertain or indecisive concerning something. An example of ambivalence is Hamlet 's soliloquy in Act 3.1. This soliloquy displays Hamlet’s ambivalence and dilemma, which is whether or not to kill himself, whether he should face his troubles or simply put an end to them by committing