The robber emphasizes his strength and kills the samurai himself.
The wife emphasized her helplessness, because she killed the samurai herself.
The samurai emphasizes his bushido, and he kills himself.
The woodcutter, as a bystander, saw his wife being raped by the robber. The robber begged his wife to go with him, but the wife asked the two to duel. While the wife continued to cry, the robber said: Women are always so helpless. Infuriating his wife, the wife laughed and laughed at the samurai's cowardice and did not want to play any more.
In the process of being raped, the wife first struggled to hug the robber's back tightly, implying that the wife wanted to be freed from the robber, who was outside the ritual system. But the wife understands from the double ridicule of the samurai and the robber that the samurai himself is arrogant and incapable of protecting his wife, and wants to defend his own way by swearing and forcing his wife, and the robber's woman is always so helpless that although he is in the right place Outside the control, but in essence still look down on women, just covet beauty. Emphasizing her helplessness in the woman's self-report also shows the demands of the society on women at that time, vase. The woman was trapped in it and could not be freed.
The passerby who returns to Rashomon is a person who sees everything clearly. Every time his words change, he reminds readers that "where there is weakness, there will be lies", etc., and passers-by and monks are two different things. different attitudes to life. The passers-by know the world and indulge in their existence; the monk knows the world but not the world, and still retains goodness. The woodcutter finally chooses to save the baby together with the monk, which is also a sign of doing good deeds.
And Rashomon, the gate of the world and hell, the gate of reincarnation. The interweaving of various lies, different narratives point to different interpretations, everything is like a garden with forked paths, at this story point, the samurai kills himself, at that story point, the samurai is killed, different narrative points lead to different The truth, after all, forms an intricate web.
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