The Dance Of Death

As a famous writer being controversial for a long time, Mishima leaves us a complicated and mysterious world. Death theme impenetrates his works. He likes to end his novels with death, either the works about beauty or the ones about love. He succeeds the aesthetic consciousness of evil existing in the tradition culture of Japan and believes deeply that"it is just the death of beauty that makes beauty becomes true". So he expresses the sublimation of love by extreme sex, and the brutal of love by determined death. If sex intents to stimulate the ability of life, death focuses on the meaning of life. In his own unusual life time, Mishima confronted the threat of death all the time. It led him to lack for security and made him take his painful memories against the reality in works aiming to coordinate the separation between his body and spirit. He also uses his predilection for death against the reality. He even escapes from the reality to nihility and experiences death though his anti-society and un-humanistic action.Mishima always likes to give his personages a death end. They die for love, or for beauty, or for the nihility of Buddhism. He leaves for the artistic world a long death Yamato-e.These factors, his narcissism and transformed sex tropism resulting from his own unusual experience, the inosculation and conflict between traditional Japanese culture and western culture on him, the nihility and illusion thought caused by the Buddhism and his self-narcosis brought by the knight spirit and sun-worship tradition of Japan, all contribute to Mishima's predilection for death and the death theme in his works.