Open AccessEKSPRESI THUMOS MISHIMA YUKIO DALAM NOVEL KINKAKUJI
Author(s) -
Zaki Ainul Fadli
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
izumi
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2502-3535
pISSN - 2338-249X
DOI - 10.14710/izumi.3.1.92-101
Subject(s) - disappointment , emperor , ideology , similarity (geometry) , value (mathematics) , psychology , social psychology , history , political science , politics , law , mathematics , ancient history , artificial intelligence , computer science , image (mathematics) , statistics
In the social study, there is a concept about strong desire to be recognized by others named thumos. Mishima as a Japanese ultranasionalist have a value about guarding the traditional Japanese values. Among of these values is the absolute position of Japanese emperor in the state. If Mishima’s thumos which expressed in the novel linked with his ideology, there is strong similarity between the protagonist’s disappointment and Mishima’s critics related with the Japanese society. Those assumptions supported by novel’s structural aspects.