In A Grove Summary

The world around us consists of a wide variety of unique and distinctive cultures. These cultures come in many forms, each with their own set of traditions. With these cultures, there are people who honor them, rebel against them, or both. Additionally, stories exist about people who honor and rebel against their culture. Two such examples of this are Ai Weiwei and in “In a Grove” by Ryunosuke Akutagawa. Ai Weiwei is considered to be one of the most impactful and influential artists in China, while also being one of the World’s most dangerous men. He is currently living under house arrest and once had his hotel broken into before getting viciously beaten up. “In a Grove” is a story that includes multiple testimonies about the case of a murdered samurai. Multiple persons connected to the crime state their account as to what happened that day. In the end,

According to multiple sources in, “In a Grove,” the samurai, Tajomaru, lures the man and his wife into a grove. After tying up the man, Tajomaru proposes to the wife and asks her to be his wife instead. The wife listens intently before insisting that, “[he takes] me away with you wherever you go.” (Akutagawa 4) The wife willingly accepts to go with Tajomaru wherever he goes and to be his wife, which rebels against their culture, as no wife would willingly leave her husband the way she did before her husband died. These characters also honor their culture, as, “[Tajomaru] didn’t like to resort to unfair means to kill [the man].[Tajomaru] untied him and told [the man] to cross swords with [him]. So, Tajomaru wanted to give the man a fair chance of living and told him to fight for his life. This honored their culture because this meant the man was dying for his honor and was not losing any in the