Yukio Mishima
I read a novella with a collection of three stories by Yukio Mishima. The first story was called "The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea," the second was called "The Temple of the Golden Pavilion", and the third was "Confessions of a Mask." I would enjoy talking about each of these books individually, however I have far too little room for discussions of a such a great feat of writing. Instead I will point out the under lying themes that manifest themselves in each story very clearly. The most prominent and head motif was of the hero myth. Every culture honors a form of hero, and although not many realize that heroes are not always people hero myths often fall onto the shoulders of leaders who focus the same kind of energy. Each story has a hero character. Even thought they have done heroic things it shows a sad side to being a hero. It also tells us that heroes to some are villains to others. In Donald Duck, he is looking for a true hero, a north star to follow to the promised land of his own culture where he can be proud of being Chinese. The important thing is he found it,
Bibliography Yukio mishima a collection os shrot worksDonald Duk. (Seppuku is taking the small sword that accompanies a katana, shoving it straight through your intestines then up to your sternum. Another less present theme that ran through almost everything was something I call, "Lost, but yet always found". He hoped the beauty would reflect of of him as well. The simple concept Lost, but yet always found is an often over looked aspect of writing. Again it changed the character, time brought out beauty within the one who thought he was ugly, and his journey changed from seeing just the temple sa beautiful to the whole, as beautiful. That was all he spoke of, that was all his father spoke of before he died. " It says golden Pavillion, not golden temple. Each hero in Yukio's book meets a grotesque fate, or has an impassable quirk that only lets his heroic qualities shine on very few. And something which is reflected in his writing is in 1970 on television in front of thousands of people, committed sepukku. In the book "Temple Of The Golden Pavillion. When his father dies Yukio goes and lives as an acolyte in the temple with the other monks. The main character thinks of himself as ugly, and always clung to the golden temple as something of beauty.
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