The Profound Meaning of "Seven Deadly Sins"

Stanford 2022-06-20 23:36:58

The end of "Fullmetal Alchemist FA" has established another classic in the history of animation. What it brings us is not only the passionate blood boiled by the stories and characters, but also has a deeper meaning worth exploring, just like the seven artificial humans of the "Seven Deadly Sins". Arakawa Hiroshi is thought-provoking for its setting and ending arrangement.

"Pride"

"Pride"-Selim's prototype is a baby that can be pinched with two fingers, just like arrogance itself. It is such a small and ignorant expression; the weapon of arrogance is a sharp shadow. Just like arrogance itself, you must cover yourself before you cover others. Arrogant people are like babies; they haven't grown up yet, haven't felt what wisdom is, and haven't seen and understood this big world. They are arrogant and arrogant, thinking that they already have the capital of arrogance. When I look back at myself, I am just such a "baby": naive, but thinks itself mature; small, but thinks itself tall. What about wisdom, the only capital of admitted arrogance? What's more, a real wise man is not arrogant.

According to Mr. Hiroshi Arakawa, Edward personally beat Selim back to his original shape. Just as this young man has grown up step by step through pain and hardship, matured step by step, has a strong arm that can truly hold up a sky, and stepped out of his arrogance and walked towards the journey of life.

"jealousy"

"jealousy" - Envi's prototype is an ugly bug, which will use everything it touches to expand itself, expand itself larger, heavier, and become even uglier. Jealous people are like this, staring at people who are taller and better than themselves, thinking of becoming tall and heavy. Enkei will be deformed just as jealousy will always cover itself with all kinds of beauty. Like a sugar-coated bomb, it will blow up others and hurt yourself. Enkei always hurts people, just as jealousy can make people bitter. Envi can turn into a giant in an instant, just as jealousy swells wildly with the slightest stimuli. Jealous people over-extend themselves crazily like their hearts and over-extend themselves to the person who is many times better in their own eyes. They did get taller, just more disgusting. Jealous people always think that the beauty of others will appear in themselves like this, but they don't know that no matter how he changes, if he doesn't give up their jealous hearts, they will always be an ugly bug.

Envi committed suicide, after finally knowing who she was jealous of. Just like the elimination of jealousy, only when people tear off their covers and are no longer limited by selfishness will they find that their jealousy is so ridiculous, pathetic, and pitiful, and then they will be truly free and easy. Ugly and evil.

"Anger"

"Anger" - Kim Bradley is the most special of the seven androids. He was originally a human, he grew old and died, and he became an artificial human with him. But only "anger" was a new feature after he became an android. Does this imply that anger is not inherently a desirable characteristic of human beings? Just as Bradley was forcibly injected with the Philosopher's Stone and turned into a cyborg with powerful powers that no one else has, anger is a violent and powerful emotion that is forced upon you by others. Bradley's battle is fast and accurate. His eyes are as angry and crazy as his actions. To kill the enemy, even if he has no arm holding the sword, he can still bite the short sword with his teeth and slash the enemy. Wound. Just like people in anger, they often make unexpected and crazy actions, go to Shanghai with all their might, and hurt themselves all over. Bradley was eventually killed because of it, and anger caused him to lose his life early, just as anger often accelerates the pace of a person's destruction.

It was Ska who killed Bradley. Let this man who is always in anger at this country that persecutes his people, let this Ishbal man with blood-red eyes like when he is angry, kill "anger" with his own hands, this is the end of his long-lasting anger towards himself. explain. From the moment he decides to help Edward protect the country, he has taken his anger to a new level.

"greedy"

"Greedy" - Grid was the first cyborg to know what he wanted. He has shared a body with Yao Lin, a human being, for a long time. It is precise that "greed" is the embodiment of the most frequent and common characteristic of human beings. His stunt is the indestructible body, just as greed, or blind greed, often makes people who are obsessed with what they want to become indifferent and hard, not to be kissed or invaded by any external things. He has spent his whole life looking for a confidant and his whole life looking for what he wants. He embarked on the road of search alone, although he never stopped moving forward because he didn't know what he wanted. His road seemed to be blind in the direction of the fog, which made him deeply disturbed, so he was constantly greedy. With strength and greed for this irrelevant thing, to temporarily appease the restless and lose heart. We will always fall into confusion, and we will always be obsessed with money and power to fill the loss in our hearts; we will always look back and find that what we are looking for is just a confidant, a person who understands us, a true friend. It's hard to find a soulmate, and maybe you won't be able to find it in your entire life, but knowing that this is already a leap in life is comforting. Grid was lucky, and eventually, he understood and found it. When he looked at Edward and Yao Lin with relief and sacrificed himself, his usual joking tone was more dashing and without regrets. When we are fortunate enough to find a confidant, that greed disappears and is replaced by contentment and tranquility.

"Lazy"

"Lazy" - Sloth eventually died in the tireless attack of people, and it was people's hard work that killed him. "Lazy" is the fastest android, so fast that he can't even see a shadow, so fast that he can't even control his direction, how can he catch him? Just like laziness roaming in people's lives, it is too fast for us to catch it, and if we are lucky enough to touch his tail and are about to reach out, it will run away again. If it goes on like this, we will also be tired and do not want to fight with it anymore, or compromise with it. At this point, laziness reverted to sluggishness, like Sloth's most common state. Therefore, laziness will only become faster in the face of diligence, because diligence is faster than it, and there is hope for existence only if you run away. But when people make up their minds and diligence becomes serious, laziness ends up being caught and killed.

"Pornography" and "Gluttony"

"Pornography" and "gluttony", that is, Rust and Gratney, are inseparable as if in reality, these two kinds of material enjoyment are always inseparable.

"Pornography" - Rust was burned to death by Mustang, burning with lust, just like lust will eventually make people play with fire and set themselves on fire.

"Gluttony" - Gratney is eaten, and gluttons are eaten instead, which is also an irony.

"Pornography" and "gluttony" are easier to overcome than the other five "original sins", which may be one of the reasons why Arakawa Hiroshi described the two of them less in "Steel" than in the other five androids Bar.

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