How would being a gladiator in the amphitheatre be an intimidating and thoroughly frightening experience?
Being a gladiator back in the roman times would be intimidating for a huge amount of reasons, it wpuld be intimidating beacuase of the sheer size the stadium, the atmosphere, the mentalitly and and appearance the fellow fighters, the weaponry used, the thoights of dying and everything lost, or the fame and money won, the occasion, expectaction that comes from you once you have signed up for being a gladiator, many things go through a galdiators mind, and it is most deffinetly not an easy life. It can go very well, or horrible wrong and misjudged. I am going to expand and evaluate the reasons of why it would such an intimidating experience. First of all, arguably the most intimidating factor of being a gladiator in an amphitheatre, is the actual size of an amphitheatre. An amphitheatre regularly fits 15,000 to 20,000 spectators. Knowing that so many people are watching, inspecting your every move can turn you off slightly. One bad move you make, can get everyone against you, and maybe even determine if you die or stay alive, if you get put to ground, then the sponsor decides if you get killed, but he wants to stay popular woth the crowd, so essentially they decide. A fighter, will only have one thing in mind when fighting, and both know what they are thinking. All they are thining about is to stay alive. So when fighting, there is no mercy, a gladiator will do anything too win the fight, because if he doesn’t, he will most probably die. Gladiators, are usually prisoners, from other countries, or slaves, so they have nothing to lose. Dying sometimes could be a good option for them, so they go all out not caring. Dying in an arena is almost always a brutal one, either dying from blood loss, or a slash to the head, or a cut that gets infected, it is not a nice one, thus creating another reason to why they have no mercy, and are vicious when attempting to survive. The weaponry is also very intimidating there was a huge variety of weapons, each and every one