On Cannibals Montaigne

Essay Analysis “On cannibals” Montaigne
The introduction lead us directly to the theme presented in the last two sentences : “ I am afraid we have eyes bigger than our stomachs and more curiosity then capacity. We embraced everything, but we clasp only wind….” We get a big eye when something new is not recognized from our conscience. The European discovered the American Continent, a new land and a different society, about whom they aroused interest of their world because they found it incredible different from their own land and their dweller are identified as stranger because they did not analyses the scene to understand it better, why is the situation that way.
In the second paragraph the author is examining the witness. This man was a
He advocated the cannibals by speaking out that there wasn’t anything uncivilized and wild in their nation. European called those human “ barbarous”, because their customs are different from theirs. By using this epithet he wants to remind them, that there were Greeks who used it for the first time for naming the Romans (Italians) as unpleasant human. They looked different because they are fused one with the nature. The cannibals were closer to the nature and possessed original and natural characteristic. He compared them with the wild fruits, whose flavor is found to be delicious also from European. At the same time, he blamed the European for overpowering the nature and their attempt to change it. Whatever we can do to nature, it still looked superior; supporting his opinion also by cited Plato`s commentary: “ All the things, say Plato, are produce by nature, by fortune or by art; the greatest and most beautiful one or the other of first two, the least and the most imperfect by the last. “ European called them “ barbarous” and “savage” because were not yet shaped by the art and science. They did not suffered of them modern diseases like; servility, intrigue, politic,
He contested the judgment and fled in the face of the European, that they were not more human as cannibals: “I think that there is more barbarity in eating a man alive, then in eating him dead”. This was a call for his mates, to look at themselves in the mirror, to penetrate deep into the iris of their eyes; their brains must translate the meaning of these images before they would give their judgment. He had spoken loudly that it was not more human eating the people when their body were full of feeling and motions, as European did, or the physician who continually misbehave with the human flesh, without showing repentance. The cannibals didn`t want to get rich by robbing and occupying the others property. They were satisfied with what nature has provided them. Therefore, their war is a beautiful holy