noun. the principal bullfighter in a bullfight who passes the bull with a muleta and then, in many countries, kills it with a sword thrust; a torero.

In this page you can discover 10 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for matador, like: torero, toreador, picador, tauromachist, fighter, bullfighter, elektra, desperado, killer of bulls and contestant.

A bullfight almost always ends with the matador killing off the bull with his sword; rarely, if the bull has behaved particularly well during the fight, the bull is “pardoned” and his life is spared. After the bull is killed, his body is dragged out of the ring and processed at a slaughterhouse.

The bull itself was seen as a mythological god in the Iberian culture, with the bullfight being the religious drama where a God, the bull, is adorned and sacrificed for humanities salvation. The first bullfight was held in Spain in 1107 in Avila.

Bullfighting Symbol Analysis. Hemingway uses bullfighting as an ongoing metaphor for war and the nature of masculinity. The bullfight represents, in part, the ideals of war that were destroyed by the mechanized war of World War I. The bullfight also represents the dangers of sex and love.

Bullfighting is also popular in Portugal and southern France, though in the former, where the bull is engaged by a bullfighter on horseback, and in many bullrings in the latter, it is illegal to kill the bull in the arena.

Bullfighting it is not an art form; it’s barbaric. We citizens of Tijuana hate this activity because of its cruelty to animals and because it promotes violence in our society. Bullfighting teaches children not to feel compassion for a suffering creature.

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