![]() ![]() ![]() ““How did your leg get hurt?” I pointed to the bandages, thinking that it must be the result of some violent fight. ![]() To start off, Dazai noticeably participates in the same “clowning” as Yozo, which in particular stands out with PM Dazai. Dazai and Yozo’s Participation in Clownery (For the sake of readability, excerpts from No Longer Human will be in pictures, and quotes from the light novel will be in regular block quotes). Thus, I’ll be going through some of my favorite quotes from No Longer Human and analyzing Dazai’s character through his similarities to Yozo. To preface, No Longer Human is written from the perspective of the main character Yozo, with the book itself being a documentation of Yozo’s notebooks (essentially his journals) throughout his life.Īs you progress through the novel, it becomes increasingly clear that Yozo lives an extremely two-sided life his foolish personality acts as a facade to others in attempts to hide the darker nature within him.ĭazai shares that obvious similarity with Yozo, but Dazai is characterized in a somewhat vague and mysterious way that leaves a lot of his inner thoughts up to interpretation and inferences. It’s no secret that BSD’s Dazai draws heavily from his real life counterpart, especially from his semi-autobiographical work: No Longer Human. ![]()
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