Tuesday, October 21, 2008
konoha: the ideal society?
The village hidden in the leaves is home to some of today's most loved heroes. The shinobis of konoha. The setting for the story of naruto is a society that combines both mordern and olden values and presents itself comparable to real world situations,.. be it gettin yorself some fast food (ramen) or taking advantage of computerised facilities in a full-fledged hospital. But they lack the same degree of advancement in fields such as communication and transport, which in a bigger view is a form of communication itself, for the following arguments. Of course, this results in each village being let to itself rather than cordinating their advancement with other villages and so there is no tangible changes in people's beliefs like religion, loyalty towards their homeland, etc. Subsequently, discrimination dissapears, except for maybe the differences between the clans ( chouji's clan, kiba's clan, shino's clan are singular) but the mutual feeling of unity for the cause of the village overrides them all. Each individual is fully free to express their indiviuality in how they dress, how they fight and how they live. Of course every society has certain individuals who form its backbone and the village stands tall in the presence of the konoha shinobi and the ruler, the hokage. Values are instilled in each shinobi or at least tried to, as in the rare cases of Orochimaru and D'ozu. The only really bad products to come out of here are the beforementioned two, among them D'zou is a threat to konoha only because he feels that he can take care of it better himself and Orochimaru too became a rogue ninja only after his application for the post of Hokage was rejected. The people live without too much social constraints, but then even if it were liberal or not, they wouldn't have known because there is no other society to compare themselves to. However, is this enough to say konoha is comparable to the ideal society, well the only thing missing from everyday is the mordern office jobs and communication. So, lets just say ignorance is bliss!
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