Review On Confessions Of A Mask
Masks and alternate identity is a major theme in Mishima Yukio’s Confessions of a Mask. The narrator believes that throughout his youth, he had been playing a role on a stage to hide his real self. However, contrary to what the narrator claims, throughout the novel, he is not playing the role of another personality. He is simply hiding. It is only in the conclusion, when the when the war is over, and the need for order and principle and everyday life is restored, that he finally sees the creation of his other identity – the masculine figure that conforms to the society’s idea of men.
Before he reaches puberty, the narrator is oblivious to the differences between his peers and himself – he simply assumes that everybody else is just like him. For example, the narrator considers his student houseboy to be wearing a mask, just like how he participates in the “reluctant masquerade.” To be more precise, he comments that the boy who laughs at his passion to dress up actually “often......
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