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How Does Tajomaru Convince His Wife

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confession. Instead, she might only be an outcast in the society knowing that she killed her husband and another man got to rape her. The two confessions only led to a further mystery. They both had contradicting sides of the story. The very first thing was they both confessed to be the murderer. Another thing was that Tajomaru said that the wife had fled while he was fighting the husband. Masago didn’t include anything related to the fighting as to what Tajomaru was claiming. Tajomaru would make the readers hate him for his arrogance and believe what he was saying since he was willing to die. On the other hand, the misery of the wife would make the reader pity her that would lead to them believing what she was telling the truth. When people’s emotions of pity and compassion are stimulated by another person’s affliction, it usually results to …show more content…

According to him, after the bandit had his way with his wife, the bandit tried to persuade his wife to come with him. She agreed which made Takehiro burned with indignation. He was tied to the tree. His wife was violated in front of him. His wife would be taken away from him and he couldn’t do anything about it. When his wife and Tajomaru were walking to step out of the grove, she suddenly said, “Kill him! I can’t be with you as long as he is alive!” Shocked by this sudden outburst, the bandit just stared at her saying that he would neither kill Takehiro nor not. Tajomaru kicked Masago and proceeded to ask Takehiro whether he should kill her or not. Hearing this, Masago fled away from the scene. Tajomaru grabbed his bows and arrows, then cut the rope tied to Takehiro. After that, Tajomaru also ran away. Takehiro was a Samurai, considering that he had a sword. He was a man of honor. He was left all alone. Pondering the things that happened to him, he decided to kill himself in order to regain his lost

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