My soul is a tomb where - bad monk that I be. Hating the world, but wanting to love it:īoth Kasuga and Baudelaire experience the world in a despairing light, generally the blame is placed on themselves for not being able to see the wonder in the world. We see this in Aku no Hana repeatedly, when Kasuga refuses to believe Saeki can be happy with him as her boyfriend, the fact that he steals her gym clothes, when he He idolizes this woman, wanting her to remain untouched by the evil of the world - that she finds her happiness, of course not with himself - he isn't worthy. In many of his other poems, his muse is mentioned through other features of the world - like "the brilliant sun". Similarities between the Aku no Hana's Story & Baudelaire's poemsīoth Baudelaire and Kasuga have an obsession with a female "muse", In Kasuga 's case - Saeki.īaudelaire has several poems with Muse in the title that refer to her grace and perfectness in a world full of woe (for him at least). I bought an English adaption of Baudelaire's Flowers of Evil, and hopefully I can answer your question.īecause they share the same title, I will refer to Baudelaire's work as "The Flowers of Evil" and the anime/manga as "Aku no Hana". People may interpret differently when reading a book the second time around.
Tokiwa brought up the book again (Les Fleurs du Mal) and this is what changed Takao's life around. Interestingly, after the failed attempt of suicide, Takao's life appeared meaningless for the longest time (until he met Tokiwa). Takao and Nakamura probably became deeply indulged with these themes because they were both persons that have been alone their entire lives. Either we enter the afterlife and achieve true happiness, or the afterlife doesn't even exist making our everything in life meaningless. Life is full of pain to begin with, and if we die anyways, then all the happiness means nothing.
Thus death is actually something to desire. It seems like a reoccurring theme in this book is the negativity in life. TLDR: Life is pointless, might as well die in order to seek the pleasurable afterlife.
In the following link, you can scroll down to La mort des artises (Death of artists) where they have an English analysis on the poem. It contains an original poem (Death of lovers) of Death in Les Fleurs du Mal by Baudelaire as well as various interpretations in English.įrom what I can gather, it seems like achieving death is some sort of bittersweet enlightenment.
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