Of Fate In The Sailor Who Fell From Grace Within The Sea By Yukio Mishima

In the novel, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace within the Sea by Yukio Mishima, fate is portrayed in a different manner compared to Agamemnon. Firstly, fate leads Ryuji Tsukazaki to meet Fusako, leads Ryuji to abandon his job as a sailor, and turns his search for glory to death. Ruji, a sailor who has been living on the sea for most of his life was been looking for the perfect glory as he says, ”I’m destined for and that’s glory”(Mishima 16) but is unsure how this glory is defined. In the novel, Fate directs Ruji to a new lifestyle when he meets Fusako and Noboru. He falls in love with Fusako to whom he finds comfort in and later on believes that it's better than continuing his quest for glory. Fate leads Ruji to accept Fusako, retire from the sea and to start a new different life on land.

However, when Ruji gives up his life as a Sailor and decides to marry Fusako, Noboru becomes extremely disappointed as he thinks fathers are“the vilest things on earth” (Mishima 167) At first, Ruji begins to “examine his hopes and dreams one by one” (Mishima 170). He was very fascinated on the search for glory that he says, “there must be a special destiny in store for me” (Mishima 17), and “no ordinary man would be permitted” (Mishima 17) However, in terms of finding his glory in his dreams, he oneday dreams and says, “he had treasures for so long, he was a paragon of manliness and she the consummate woman; and from the opposite corners of the earth they came together in a chance encounter, and death wed them (Mishima 33)Indeed, this was a foreshadow that explains how coming together of the sea and land can result in death, and was a warning sign for Ruji, but perhaps he ignores it. Not only this, Mishima had also shown several warning signs,one which fate gives Ruji was at the end of the novel when Ruji was taken to the dock for his