No Long Human Analysis

No Longer Human
人間失格

No Longer Human or 人間失格 (Ningen Shikkaku) is a Japanese novel by a famous Japanese author, Osamu Dazai. No Longer Human is considered as Dazai's masterpiece and it is one of the classics of Japanese literature and has been translated into several foreign languages.
Dazai was born with the name Shuji Tsushima. He is the eighth surviving child of a wealthy and respectful landowner with a mother who was got weaken after giving birth to 11 children thus, Tsushima was raise mainly by the family's servants. In 1927, Tsushima entered Hirosaki University’s literature department and started his writing and became a staff member of the college's newspaper team but later on, after his favorite writer, Ryunosuke Akutagawa committed
After the war, he became an alcoholic and met with Tomie Yamazaki, a war widow. He abandoned his wife and children to live with Tomie and began his quasi-autobiography “Ningen Shikkaku (No Longer Human)”. In 1948, he worked on his novelette named “Guddo bai (Goodbye)” but he never finished the work. On 13 June 1948, he committed his last suicide with Tomie. They drown themselves in the canal near their house. Their bodies was founded on 19 June which was his
Even though the movie is told in the order that is much close to the book, however in the book it is told in a first-person diary style which most parts of the story are the thought of the main character but in the movie, we do not know what he think, we only know what he does and that leads to many false in the movie. Firstly, when we only see what the character does, it makes our view on the main character, Yozo different from in the novel. In the movie, Yozo seems to be just a rich spoiled child who choose a wrong way in life by drinking and doing drug but in the novel, when we know what he thinks, we see the reason why he has to drink and do drug so that make us understand him more and see that he is not just an ordinary spoiled child. Second, many actions of Yozo seems to be unreasonable. Again, when we cannot know his thought, we cannot know why he do that and it seems to be unreasonable or leave us too much space to imagine. For example, reason why he decided to leave Yoshiko, the only woman who was able to change him, it is not that he could not forgive her but that he was unable to forgive himself. He did not protect her as a man and husband should do because of his mental state. However in the movie, we only see that he left the girl who was extremely good to him and even worse, he did not even protect her when he