With life comes death, with destruction comes rebirth, and with fear often comes understanding and growth. Constant change within our environment surrounds and invades our existence--which too is ever changing, growing, digressing and evolving. Often a sad tone resounds within this acceptance of uncontrolled fluctuation. It is the sad or destructive experiences that one wishes could be controlled; and often those become more apparent then the joy and happiness that accompanies change. Throughout Tanizaki’s The Makioka Sisters the essence of the novel is captured using subtlety to describe the timeless cyclical changes in nature, thus revealing and enhancing the acceptance of the unavoidable impermanence that is woven into the sister’s lives and experiences. Transformations within their natural world saturate and undeniably affect the lives of the characters in this novel.
Throughout the novel the sisters are constantly exposed to the beauties and destruction that the cycles of nature produce, changing and affecting their lives for brief and lengthy durations. Change in nature perpetually occurs and learning to adapt to its inconsisten
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It was a saddening thought, and yet it contained almost a prayer. The storm not only reinforces the necessity to accept and deal with the atrocities that nature randomly brings, it also reveals the depths to which the Makioka’s have fallen with their move to Tokyo. Sachiko always felt a stabbing at the heart, and walked on” (89). An excerpt from Sachiko’s thought’s reveal the essence of change that the event symbolizes. The ancients waited for cherry blossoms, grieved when they were gone, and lamented their passing in countless poems. In an attempt to accept the changes that constantly occur around them, the Makioka’s must also accept the impermanence which continues to pass within their own daily lives. For Sachiko there was, besides pleasant sorrow for the cherry blossoms, sorrow for her sisters and the passing of their youth.
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Tanizaki, Junichiro.
She finds a obvious connection amidst the beauty of seasonal cycles, which creates a haven of understanding for the impermanent nature of her natural world and her familial one. “Taeko, usually the most active of the three, had evidently not recovered from the shock of the flood. Realizing that soon her family will again be altered, she hints at a note of sadness although the change will possibly bring a joyous communion for Yukiko. Tanizaki poetically uses the fluctuation of nature to delicately suggest fluctuation or transformations that occur within the characters. The worst typhoon in over ten years, winds literally shaking the house, dirt and sand forcefully flying through vacant cracks, and walls billowing seemingly ready to burst; the family must remain calm although terror chills their bones.
Approximate Word count =
1702
Approximate Pages =
7 (250 words per page double spaced)
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