Essays Tagged: "Yukio Mishima"

"Literary tools used in Mishima's 'Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea'"

Yukio Mishima was an author who wrote with graphic detail and imagery. He used this technique to fur ... y was Persian blue except where the shadow of one pearly cloud turned it pale, chilly white" (174). Yukio intended the white spot to be Ryuji, a missing part of the sea. Once Ryuji returns, the white ... issing part of the sea. Once Ryuji returns, the white spot will be gone, and he will take its place.Yukio also uses imagery to foreshadow future events. By the middle of the book, it is inferred that ...

(2 pages) 45 0 3.7 Apr/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

A PLUS ESSAY: THE IRON MIND: THE IMPORTANCE AND EFFECT OF "IRON" IN MY LIFE. PERFECT FOR COLLEGE STUDENTS IN ENGLISH 111-EXP ENGLISH

t your power is both physical and emotional. That it comesfrom the body and the mind. And the heart.Yukio Mishima said that he could not entertain the idea of romance if he was notstrong. Romance is s ...

(4 pages) 120 2 3.8 Dec/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

The corruption of Culture in Yukio Mishimas "Swaddling Clothes".

Corruption of CultureIn Yukio Mishima's "Swaddling Clothes" we see a great deal of symbolism portraying the corruption of th ...

(2 pages) 47 0 5.0 Oct/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature

Confession of a Mask: A Perverse Text?

kind of people they are, and react to others on the basis of the types of people they seem to be.In Yukio Mishima's Confessions of a Mask, the I-narrator describes his childhood and adolescent experie ... of Death: From Freud to Lacan. New York: Routledge, 1995.Scott-Stokes, Henry. The Life and Death of Yukio Mishima. New York: Cooper Square Press,1974.

(12 pages) 90 0 3.4 Jan/2004

Subjects: Art Essays

Patriotism

"Patriotism," by Yukio Mishima, is a story of the effects of war on a person, his friendship and the country he loves ...

(3 pages) 46 0 3.7 Jul/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

The books "Patriotism" by Yukio Mishima and "Sofia Petrovna" by Lydia Chukovskaya, show its audience how loyal, dedicated, and sometimes ignorant the people of China and Japan were in the 1930's.

horitarian Rule Over the Japanese and Chinese Citizens in the 20th CenturyThe books "Patriotism" by Yukio Mishima and "Sofia Petrovna" by Lydia Chukovskaya, show its audience how loyal, dedicated, and ...

(3 pages) 61 0 3.8 Oct/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature

"Confessions of a Mask": Kochan (Narrator) Character Analysis

In his semi-autobiographical novel, "Confessions of a Mask", by Yukio Mishima examines the struggle for acceptance by a man living outside of the socially accepted ...

(5 pages) 29 0 0.0 Nov/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature

Romeo And Juliet Vs. The Sound Of Waves (comparason Essay)

s very similar to the love affair between the two main characters in the book The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima. In both stories, the romantic couples had a relationship that was undesired amongst t ...

(3 pages) 8 0 0.0 Apr/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Erotic Representations Of Women In Pre-modern Chin

Japan have long literary traditions in linking sexual impulse with death, an aesthetic point which Yukio Mishima later in the twentieth century came to exemplify to an extreme. In that sense, literat ... ngly unpredictable turns of fate. Religion directly addresses the issue of death, and, according to Yukio Mishima, eroticism is ascending to life up to the point of death.[20] In the words of Georges ...

(13 pages) 20 0 3.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima

Barthes has said, "Literature is the question minus the answer." In her novel, The Sound of Waves, Yukio Mishima raises one central question to the reader: are you or are you not a "get-up-and-go" pe ... hinji's restraint, work ethic, courage, and responsibility are the character traits that made, from Yukio Mishima's view, a "get-up-and-go man." In her novel, The Sound of Waves, she demonstrated with ...

(2 pages) 4098 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Yukio Mishima - Confession of a Mask

fessions of a Mask is a famous and fascinating Japanese novel which is written by well-known author Yukio Mishima who is historical author. The narrated content of the Confessions of a mask talk about ... ask that we show to the others and hide our truly in order to fit in real world today.BibliographiesYukio Mishima - Confession of a Mask

(17 pages) 13 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature

Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima

fessions of a mask is a famous and fascinating Japanese novel which is written by well-known author Yukio Mishima who is historical author. The narrated content of the Confessions of a mask talk about ...

(16 pages) 20 0 4.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature

Guomindang and CCP

Asia, particularly the collapse of the Russian Empire? What regions did Japan seek to control?FridayYukio Mishima, "Patriotism"1) What is life like for the couple (Shinji and Reiko) described in the s ...

(2 pages) 13 0 0.0 Nov/2008

Subjects: History Term Papers > Asian History

Spring Snow by Yukio Mishima

Katia AmbrosioMr. HadleyEnglish 2H 6August 18, 2014 The ChangesIn Yukio Mishima's Spring Snow, it is shown throughout the novel that people can change drastically due ... "… he had the general impression that Iinuma had always been there beside him."In conclusion Yukio Mishima shows the theme that people can change drastically due to events or actions that may s ...

(5 pages) 0 0 0.0 Oct/2014

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature