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Historical Background: "Manolete" conceived of bullfighting not as a profession, but as an ideal.... 
He approached his vocation with an incorruptible honesty and displayed an almost mystical, holy dedication to his art. He would fight the bull with such solemnity and with such complete attention and preparation for the sacrifice.... Manolete met his tragic death with his last bull in Linares. It happened as he went in for the kill; the '"moment of truth" as the Spanish say. He threw himself over the horns, disregarding the danger, instead of taking the easy way out as so many bullfighters do by feinting to one side. The sword was already in up to the hilt, when the bull hooked his mighty head sideways and plunged his terrible horns deep into the torero's groin, tossing him into the air. The beast tried repeatedly to gore the wounded man on the ground until it staggered to it's knees and fell down dead.