"Kokoro" by Natsume Soseki

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"This study will examine Natsume Soseki's novel Kokoro, focusing on the love triangle among Sensei, his friend K, and the woman they both loved. The study will explore the ways the love triangle symbolizes the miseries and alienation of life in the modern world.


The novel is about the way morality was changing as the old traditional life passed away in Japan and the modern world emerged. The old ways were ruled by strict moral views. There was a sense that people owed one another loyalty and fidelity. Friendship was important, maybe even more important than love. But these ways were passing away at the time this novel was being written. The modern world was coming into being. The major difference between the old world and the modern world was the fading away of the sense that people owed moral behavior to one..."

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