Umi to dokuyaku (The Poison and Sea)

This type of internal human battle does not stop here, it is in every hearts in every countries. Here, he paints with a broad brush, using little subtlety (Yancey, 1995). Endo is a devoted chatholic and he looks into human hearts from an angle where we does not want God to see. Most of his early works examine the Japanese sense of moral guilt in contrast to that of the Christian West (Gabriel and Snyder, 1999).

The main character in the novel is Suguro, an emotional and loyal intern. In May of 1945, Suguro and another intern, Toda, are involved in a power play among the doctors who are seeking the deanship of

Although Toda is able to take part in the vivisection, the surgeon is somewhat uneasy about the whole experience. But throughout the novel, Toda seems to be more apathetic to such things than Suguro. Toda has no moral strength; he felt the vivisection would make a contribution to science. However, after the vivisection takes place, we can see that he is peering into the operating theater looking troubled.

Toda tries to soothe Suguro's conscience by telling him that the prisoners were dead anyway so they did not kill them, instead saved them. Toda tell Suguro that the army had already sentenced the prisoners to death; and the operation made them part of medical history. In this novel, we are drawn into the gripping story's enormous ethical and spiritual dilemmas, its dramatic, surprising plot, its compelling evocation of character, of priestly inwardness as it tries to come to terms with social reality and political power.

Because different people react differently in different situations, everyone has free will and the freedom to make their own conscience decisions. When Suguro and Toda are asked if they want to take part in the vivisection, both have agreed at first. After taking time to think about what they would actually going to take part in, they start to feel awkward. From the beginning, Suguro is definitely having second thoughts about his decision. After seeing the horror of what they have done, he later regrets his decision. On his way to the hospital the day the vivisections are about to take place, he contemplates on going back to his boarding room. This is his conscience reminding him of his moral standards. Days before the vivisections, Suguro and Toda seemed to avoid each other and did no

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