三島由紀夫の「獅子」「葵上」における女性像 ― 愛の欠乏と倫理的「怪物」―

Abstract

This paper examines the "monstrous"nature of women in Mishima Yukio's works and we confirm that it is a limited place called "home", in particular, the "modern family" statue of modern Japan, which is the background behind the appearance of these female characters in Mishima Yukio’s literature. Through concrete work analysis of "Shishi(1948)" and "Aoi no ue(1952)", focusing on One-on-one relationship between men and women seen in the monogamous style of "modern families", this paper investigates women 's attitude to obsession with the opponent's male and its " monstrous " . Mishima draws a modern family image that completely monopolizes the opponent by domination of love through the unethical and "Monstrous” behavior of women emphasized by the contrast with weaker men (mainly husbands). That is, Mishima's "Monstrous" women are born from the "modern family" statue that is forced as a postwar system. In the Mishima work, confusion and the antipathy at the time of occurrence of the modern family after the war would had been reflected in women as ugliness which took a "monster" nature. Through the appearance of such women Mishima's critical view of the "modern family" that limits women's place of residence to "home" as a housewife and makes women seek their own awareness only in the house. Mishima made a search for women's problems in "modern families", especially the way of women who can only be placed under the control of a man (husband) in the limited space of "home" through literary works.