Hence the relationship between Dazai and Fyodor. Just before then though, he believes himself having come to an understanding of the chaos of Dostoesvski’s mind. Crime, and god, Crime and repetance, Crime and confession, Crime and punishment he finally questions whether the last is synonym or antonym but before he can finish the thought he’s interrupted. In short, you can give justification that things are opposites, or you can give justification that things are actually the same, there is no universal truth there is only differing justifications.Īt the end of the conversation Yozo relents to this point, he tries to think of antonyms of crime but they are all synonyms. It’s a joke of binary opposition and dualism. The “joke” of the conversation is that while it sounds deep, the two of them are just playing a game.Īny of these two words could be set up as antonyms as long as you give enough justification. Yozo turns it into a game to distract from the serious accusation that he is actually a criminal and he got away with not only committing double suicide with a lady who amounts to a stranger to him, but he’s lived his life so far stealing money from the other women he’s been in relationship in. Don’t be so cheeky, I for one have never been tied up like a common criminal the way you have.” After that the conversation turns into an antonym game between the two of them. The conversation starts when Horiki refers to Yozo as a criminal. Already from the way the narrator describes his friendship with Horiki you can see parallels in how Fyodor views his connection to Dazai. The character Yozo (who Dazai is in part based off of due to his tendency towards buffoonery to use as a mask for his feelings, and his ability is directly named after the book) in the fourth Memorandum of No Longer Human discusses the antonym of crime with his ‘friend’ Horiki. No Longer Humanįirst off, while Fyodor’s character, such as being referred to as a demon and his ideology for crime and punishment draws from Dostoevsky’s novels, the relationship between Dazai and Fyodor is a direct literary reference to No Longer Human. I’ll elaborate in detail beneath the cut. They are each other’s inverse in almost every way while appearing to be exactly the same. It’s even much more than Dazai and Fyodor are just smarter than everybody else in a way that isolates them. However their relationship extends far beyond ‘Being the same’, or just the fact that they’re both highly skilled manipulators who are able to pull off complex plans. Which allows both of them to continually one up the other and predict the other’s movements. When he says that, Fyodor shows Dazai the same smile he showed him earlier, like Dazai is looking in a mirror.ĭazai and Dotsoevsky are able to read each other so well, knowing the other like they know themselves. First, Dazai dresses as Fyodor not only as a joke but to draw the eye to how similar they are, both of them dark haired skinny males with pale complexions who wear overcoats.ĭazai explains he was able to predict where Fyodor would end up, because if he were in the same situation it was what he would do. Their entire first scene plays their similarities and differences up. That is to say from the moment they are drawn in panel together, the audience is naturally meant to compare and contrast them. The objective is to highlight the traits of the other character. In literature, a foil is a character that shows qualities that are in contrast with the qualities of another character. Synonyms or Antonyms: Dazai and Dostoevskyįrom the moment they meet within Bungou Stray Dogs, Dazai and Fyodor are set up as foils.įoil Definition.
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