Comparison of Sound of Waves and Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea
There are many similarities between Yukio Mishima's “The Sound of Waves" and “The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea,” but there are also some important differences. The endings of the two novels seem to oppose each other, however some of the imagery and characters personalities in the novels make them very similar.
In “Sailor,” one of the main characters is named Ryuji. He is a sailor, and later a father, and plays a central role in the novel. In “Waves,” Ryuji is used as the name for a character again. However, this Ryuji is not seen often in the action -- he is instead a medium through which the two main characters are forced to communicate. The Ryuji in “Waves” is also a young boy, while in
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This Westernization is something that would lead to the eventual downfall of Ryuji. In “Waves,” Churiko, a more western-thinking, college-educated girl, is the character that creates the problems which must be overcome. It seems that Mishima is trying to communicate to the readers that Westernization is not a good thing for Japan. In real life, we know that Mishima did think this was true. He would commit ritual suicide for his beliefs about the emperor. The sea is of course of central importance in both novels. Surprisingly though, the two novels do not share the same view of the ever-changing force. In “Sailor,” Ryuji describes the sea as, “another kind of prison.(16)” In “Waves”, Shinji, the main character, feels surprisingly free when he first ventures onto the sea: “ ‘I'm free!’ he shouted in his heart. This was the first time he had realized there could be such a strange sort of freedom as this.(150)” Another contrast between the two books deals with the ending. In “Sailor,” it is the fulfillment of love that causes the death of Ryuji, the heroic seaman. When Ryuji finds Fusako he stops his work as a man of the sea
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• Mishima, Yukio. The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea. Trans. John Nathan. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1965.
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Cultural Contradictions: An Analysis of Contrasting Elements in Yukio Mishima’s The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea
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