It’s shocking for simply the sake of awing the readers in its ludicrousness. The Borgias is an audacious, pretentious retelling of the wrath of Rodrigo Borgia and his family. Regardless of Jodorowsky’s noble intentions to elevate the readers to their best and in turn, raising humanity to a new level of greatness through The Borgias, the novel is a failure of an allegorical commentary, incapable of completing the full sense of misery inflicted by the Borgias family and completely missing the target in terms of trying to encourage better behavior from the world. The Borgias, for him, is an exercise in allegory, comparing the destruction of the Borgias dynasty to that of a modern world power, hoping to provoke some realization of humanity and kindness and humility in the reader, which are as lacking today as they were in a post Black Plague Europe. He describes the corruption and the evil that most dynasties have incurred on the world and their eventual end, suggesting the impending doom of the fall of America as a world power. In Jodorowsky’s introduction, he indiscreetly suggests that The Borgias is a metaphorical narrative that represents the behavior of the United States in the political and economic world arena. Conveying and understanding this erosion can lead to interesting discussions around conflicts of individual and popular faith. The erosion of faith through organized religion has been the subject of many works of culture and the artifact of many historical events. Using a historical institution to represent a modern one can provoke reflections and realizations about the flaws of the modern world. Allegory can be a powerful literary tool.
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