The protagonist's stuttering in The Golden Pavilion is the result of an imbalance between his inner self-cognition and social identity.As a symptom of his existence,the stuttering in turn intensifies the alienation of the individual from the outside world and constitutes his life experience as"not being understood".Out of the desire for beauty and the absolute,the protagonist attempts to establish identity with the Golden Pavilion,but is forced to become a humiliating presence under the gaze of the other.Thus,the action of trampling on the red-clad prostitute in the snow can be regarded as an atrocity of witness destruction.In the face of the reality,the protagonist keeps oscillating between cognition and behavior.When he realizes the dialectical unity of the two,his act of burning the Golden Pavilion is not so much the destruction of beauty as the construction of a tragedy of nothing in a futile act of despair,which refers directly to Mishima's own tragedy.
The Golden Pavilionsociocultural theorystutteringthe othernihilism
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