Chyoko Vs Yasuo

In general, life a person’s actions are motivated by what they want, see and feel. Those things can either motivate you to take action in a positive and negative way. In the book The Sound Of waves, by Yukio Mishima the all the characters were motivated by what the wanted, saw or felt. The two characters I’m going to focus on are the two main antagonists Chiyoko and Yasuo. Chiyoko and Yasuo actions were motivated by the way they looked and their character traits. At the end of the book usually the characters have a change in heart and their actions change as well as their motivations. Chiyoko and Yasuo’s motivations for their actions started very similar to each other, but ended up completely different.
The two main antagonist of the book

Through out the book The Sound Of Waves Chiyoko was described as an unattractive individual. Yukio Mishima describes Chiyoko as gloomy, plain and unsociable. “Chiyoko never wore a trace of make-up and her face was made all the more inconspicuous by the plain, dark-brown suit she was wearing”(Mishima 58). Chiyoko thought that everyone around her shared the same feeling of her not being the most attractive. When Yasuo and Chiyoko first met; Yasuo told Chiyoko about Uncle Teru Miyata’s daughter, Hatsue. Yasuo first described Hatsue as a “real beauty”. Chiyoko quickly thought that Yasuo was comparing her to Hatsue and was in some way insulting her. “Chiyoko’s face had clouded at the word “beauty.” Just the word alone seemed an implied criticism of her own looks”(Mishima 62). Even before meeting Hatsue, Chiyoko is already sort of jealous towards Hatsue. When Chiyoko first laid eyes on Hatsue she was left speechless. But not because of Hatsue’s beauty, but because she was with the man that Chiyoko wanted her entire life. Yasuo’s actions are also motivated by his looks and characteristics. Not as much as Chiyoko, but even so. Yukio Mishima characterizes Yasuo as someone who is conceited, lazy and thinks he’s entitled to everything he wants. Yukio Mishima uses the character of Yasuo to symbolize what certain traits are bad for men to have. Yasuo never really had to work for anything in his life,

Yasuo’s actions and what motivates his actions basically stay the same through the whole book. Yasuo feels that he can have any women or anything he desires just because he is of a higher class. “In Yasuo’s opinion the mere ownership of such a wonderful watch made him by rights a favorite with the women”(Mishima 87). Here we see Yukio Mishima using Yasuo’s expensive watch to symbolize his higher status in the village. Yasuo feels that it is his right, for Hatsue to like him better simply because he is in a higher class than Shinji. Yasuo lusts over Hatsue; Yasuo does not love Hatsue. He feels he should have Hatsue not because she loves him or he loves her, he simply feels this way because he is rich. When Yasuo sees that a poor man like Shinji wins over Hatsue he feels like he needs to force Hatsue to have sexual intercourse with him. “Yasuo would not let go of her”(Mishima 91). “Suddenly Hatsue pursed her lips and spat full on Yasuo’s chin”(Mishima 92). “This aroused his passion all the more and, feeling her heaving breasts beneath him, he thrust his face against her cheek”(Mishima 92). His actions reflected how Yasuo has never known true love and reflect a poor excuse for a man, unlike