Examples Of Sacrifice In 47 Ronin

Seppuku, dying to protect your samurai general, and not being with the one you love doesn't have a lot in common, but they do in the movie, “47 Ronin.” You see, all of them are loosely tied to sacrifice, the act of giving up something valued for something regarded as more important. There were many different forms of this prominent theme that were constantly seen throughout “47 Ronin,” especially in the examples given above. The main types seen were forced sacrifice, offering made to protect, and sacrificed obtained through death. The reason that they were so much diversity in this action, in both the examples and the types seen, was because of how different higher-ups wanted different types of sacrifice to be enforced. The shogun, for

More or less of the time, sacrifice was something that was only obtained after death. In “47 Ronin,” samurais played a vital role in which many of them offered something by dying. Sometimes it was the individual who sacrificed that was only affected but sometimes other people too were impacted even though they didn’t actually do a lot. A great example of this is when Oishi’s wife’s love was sacrificed. Death not only snatched away Oishi when he finished performing seppuku, but it also took Oishi’s childhood sweetheart’s love with it. Another case, in which sacrifice involved someone or some people dying was when the 47 Ronins died trying to save Ako and Lady Asano from Lord Kira’s evil hands. Not only were people heavily injured in the first ambush, but after the second ambush almost all of them were killed due to not following the orders of the Shogun. One case in which the destruction of the people affected everyone, even in the advanced world today was the demise of the 47 Ronins through seppuku (a sacrificial ritual.) All of the samurais, in the movie and in Edo Japan (where the film originated from), were brought up with strict rules called “Bushido” which stated how a soul should live their life. Bushido heavily enforced that the only two ways to end a samurai’s life were to either die honorably in battle or to perform seppuku. In “47 Ronin,” even though Bushido wasn’t stated literally it was shown through specific actions such as when the Ronins and Lord Asano died when performing the sacrificial ritual since they weren’t able to die honorably through battle. All in all, sacrifice that is offered through death affects everyone and examples of this was Oishi’s wife’s love, the destruction in the first ambush, and Lord Asano’s and the 47 Ronins’ death through