Love I
Love; The strongest emotion one can experience in his/her lifetime. Love can drive a man crazy, delusional, ultimately making, or breaking one's character. This simple, yet complicated sentiment of life is so eccentric even the most complex of minds haven't fully grasped its concept, literally love is boundless, knowing no limit as to what form, or shape it wishes to manifest. Martin Luther King Jr. had captured a great quote about the value of love in a troubled souls life: Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
Pain I
Just imagine, coming into life, not knowing your left from your right, the difference between good, and bad, and the feeling of love; clueless essentially to the basics of life. This was Gaara, a fragile child brought into the world publicly on a whim as an
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, resulting in
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all of which Gaara did not understand at the time.
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those very thoughts must have lingered in his young, feeble mind.
Gaara wasn't the monster, the village was. Judging a boy, not by his actions, nor character, but by the vast perception of the villager's ideologies; The Sand demon's prison - An experiment - A Human? No, a Monster in human skin.
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, still the burden of being an outcast stubbornly persisted.
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; a book with a displeasing cover, no one would try to understand its contents.
Q: Why did you choose a Swan as a Symbolism, and why is it Black?
A: White Swans are the symbol of love, nurture, care. However, it is not limited to those meanings specifically, which I will answer in the next question.
Q: What does the Black Swan represent?
A: A deep mystery longing to be free, to be expressed. Essentially you could look at the Black Swan as the Yin of the White Swan's Yang, opposite, yet one in the same. While the White Swam symbolizes love, and understanding, the Black Swan symbolizes hate, and misunderstanding or mysteriousness.
Pain & Love I
Remember your first kiss? That warm feeling you'd get inside your stomach, you'd become all nervous, and jittery knowing the action you had just performed with your significant other was truly amazing, and if he/she felt the same, thinking to yourself: "is this love? Yeah this must be what it feels like"; Love.
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Remembering your first cut? That warm feeling you'd get inside your injury, the blood rushing out, your brain quickly processing the information, then seconds later you'd feel the the true result of your wound? Thinking to yourself: "why does it hurt so bad? Am I going to die?"; Pain.
Imagine not being able to know the feeling of either emotion, what would they feel like, would love be pain? Or perhaps pain might be love? You would never know, you have been placed in a similar child's shoes; Gaara's.
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, but how can pain be besieged, when love has been nonexistent ever since birth? It can't. Your own father, someone who you idolized, looked up to as mentor, a teacher, your go-to guidebook on life decisions,
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.. Maternal love nowhere in sight,
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, showed his true colors during his dying moments, it wasn't love, deep down, Gaara's only loved one Yashimaru,
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, which again wasn't Gaara's fault. Yashimaru could choose two paths, acceptance, or negligence; Yashimaru chose the later, choosing to blame Gaara for the village's rash decision.
Pain was all Gaara knew. Love was a figment of his imagination, what the hell was this fairy tale known as Love? How could he possibly attain such a thing? Especially with the information he had just come to know:
- He was a failed experiment, a mistake; A Monster in the eyes of everyone.
- His Father resented him, his Mother wished him to never be born, giving him his name out of sheer disgust in what she had brought into the world.
- The one who he had truly thought cared for him, had only hidden his true emotions deep down inside; Yashimaru resented him.
- Furthermore, his Father gave orders to assassinate his only son, Gaara.
Finding Love, when you've only experienced Pain? How is it possible? Simple:
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The Black Swan
Years later, embracing the emotion known as Pain. This emotion had abruptly become Love in his mind. The only thing Gaara needed to feel love was through the pain of others. Similar to how caring is essential for love,
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, paying the blood as a tribute to his Mother, with his twisted, and distorted way of symbolizing mutual love for one another.
No, what Gaara was paying tribute to, wasn't his Mother, but Shukaku, The Sand Demon trapped deep inside, awaiting impatiently to break free of his restraints, negatively influencing his personality,
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. In his eyes, the more blood, the more affection he would claim from his "mother".
Gaara within this mindset was misunderstood, and consumed by pure-hatred from the influence of others. Unknowing of what the true aspects of Love truly were, and what they represented. Gaara defined, and symbolized an outcast;
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- This is just my idea of the symbolism for Gaara's emotional journey through Naruto, it could symbolize really an infinite amount of things from another person's P.O.V, but this is mine.
- This is Part I of my Symbolism.
- Click the underlined context for manga panels lol.
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