The end justifies the means? It is both very conflicting and contradictory statement, indeed. It has always been an ethical issue from the beginning of the human history. Can people justify their actions if it meant their survival? Is it right to harm others for your own profit? Would you mind killing someone if it was for your own good? In the story "Rashomon?by Ryunoske Akutagawa, the fundamental principle of ethics is dealt with a deep scorn and the end of the story leaves the readers with a question mark on their head, making them to seriously contemplate and arbitrate the actions of both old woman and the servant. .
In the story "Rashomon? the servant is dismissed from his job due to the poverty-stricken economy of the West Kyoto after numbers of natural disasters. He goes to Rashomon without any future plans. He doesn't know what to do but decides to seek a shelter in the old, deserted tower of Rashomon. On his way to the top of the tower, he goes through a dilemma whether he should be a thief or not. His idea of being a thief is disturbed by his sense of honor that he thinks he rather die than being a thief. Accidentally, he finds old woman in the tower who is pulling out the hair from the dead person. At first, he finds himself extremely furious toward old woman whom he considers as desecrating the dead body. Forgetting the fact that he himself thought of being a thief a while ago, his mind is now filled with justice toward old woman. He grabs hold of an old woman and questions her what she was doing to the dead body. When the old woman says that she was taking the hair out in order to make a wig, cold contempt rises in the servant's head. But when the old woman tells him that she's doing such thing in order to survive and the dead woman whom she was pulling the hair from will understand the old woman too because the dead woman used to sell snake, faking to her buyer that it's a fish.
The film Rashomon opens with three men sitting under Rashomon gate. This is the beginning of the films framing. ... Each of the four stories is separated by a returning shot to the four men at Rashomon gate. This is quite possibly the only way a story like this can be told. ... The framing of the stories helped to make Rashomon the wonderful film that it is....
In Rashomon we are told a story from varying different points of views. ... Rashomon is based on short stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Rashomon and In the Grove. ... I found this movie to be very interesting in the way Akira Kurosawa told the story of Rashomon. ... I believe this was done to cast a shadow of doubt on the each person's story during their re-telling of it. ... In the end, each story actually tells a little of the truth, but still not enough to know whose story was closer to the truth. ...
In my opinion, "Rashomon- was a vague story. ... Kurosawa's Rashomon was based on the combination of Akutagawa's two stories. ... The film did not show this scenario. ... This was where they exchanged stories about the incident. ... Towards the end of the movie, the woodcutter, the priest, and the commoner hear a baby. ...
The story told by Rashomon is both surprisingly simple and deceptively complex. Many different conclusions can be made when first examining this story but one must realize that things are not always what they seem. Akira Kurosawa's "Rashomon" is a good example of a story that is not what it first appears to be. ... Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon tells the story of a murder. ... Rashomon plays with what we can perceive as truth. ...
Rashomon is a Japanese crime drama film directed by Akira Kurosawa, adapted from the two short stories "Rashomon" and "In a Grove", written by Ryunosuke Akutagawa. ... What actually resulted in this samurai's death is unimportant, because the story isn't important. ... The stories told in Rashomon are more akin to captions without photographs. ... An example of this in the very film towards the end, where one of the men under the gate, the one who reported the crime, reveals he was actually present for the death of the samurai. ... Rashomon is a story about the f...
Rashomon Akutagawa's Rashomon is a fascinating tale about the nature of human behavior in extreme circumstances. ... The author sets the story in a time that is, in many ways, analogous to early twentieth century Japan. ... The story finds the servant contemplating becoming a thief to survive. ... This suspicion is clearly depicted in the following quote: "[The servant begins to climb into the Rashomon to sleep for the night when he sees a light] What sort of person would be making a light in the Rahomon and in a storm? ... In order to properly understand the Japanese people it i...
"Rashomon," (1950) is a film directed by Akira Kurosawa. ... I think, providing that the woodcutters account is factual, Rashomon acts in this way because he is concerned about the way he will be represented after the trial. ... Rashomon has stated himself on multiple accounts that people are motivated purely by self-interest. ... However, this says a lot to detriment the integrity of the bandit as a human being. ... This disproves the bandit's notions that people are, in the end, act only to benefit themselves. ...
The End Justifies the Means In Homer's The Iliad, various male roles exhibit heroic characteristics complying with the heroic code. ... So how does one weigh in choosing the greater hero know this? ... This is what Achilles did and that is why he is deemed as the true epic hero of Homer's, The Iliad. As Machiavelli once said, "The end justifies the means." ... This displays the Hector's fighting approach in fulfilling the heroic code....
When does the End Justify the Means? ... We may have even tried to justify our actions by twisting the truth or thinking that is was for the best in the end. ... When does the end justify the means? ... In most cases we cannot say the end will justify the means. More, I think that the means will most definitely justify the end. ...
