Capitolo 69
the Supper of Trimalchio. The action takes place in to a large extent
Southern Italy, and the principal characters are freedmen that has done
their fortunes and city degenerate on that you/they are choosing a precarious
living from their intelligence. The citizens in that they are the central figures the
novel, has involved in a great variety of it experiments, the most greater part of them of a
dishonorable kind, and the history is a history of the low life. Women play a
important role in the account, more main point perhaps that they does in
some other kind of the ancient literature--at least their individuality it is more
marked. Efficient motive is erotic. I say the efficient one, because the
conventional motive that seems to give account of all the misadventures of the
anti-hero Encolpius is the anger of an offended divinity. A great part of
the book has an atmosphere of satire around him what spites our curiosity
and it confuses us to the same duration, because it is hard to say how much of
this element is inherent in the same subject, and how much of he lies in
the author's intention. It is the characteristic of society of parvenu
to imitate intelligent society to the best of his/her ability and his/her social
functions are a parody of the likes events in the superior set. The history of a
party of supper, given for example from such _nouveau riche_ as Trimalchio,
he/she would remember us to from his/her similarity and his/her unlikeness, from his/her sins continually
of omission and it commissions, of a similar event in correct society. In
other words, would be a parody on a correct supper, even if the man that
described the event it didn't know anything the uses of good society, and
without the further motive in mind envoy down accurately him the doings of his
characters come by the mess-tin. For example, when the chef of Trimalchio has three white
driven pigs in the dine-room for the apparent purpose to allow
the guests to choose out one for the next course, with the memory of ours really