The Contradictions of Madara Uchiha (Hope and Hypocrisy in Naruto Part 2)

A major theme of Naruto exists in the

hypocrisy

of its antagonists. Each new major enemy builds on the ideology of the previous one and adds a new perspective to the recurring conflict. These battles inform Naruto's worldview and force him to confront his own

hypocrisy

, which then allows him to do the same to his enemies. Obito served as a culmination of this theme, but that is also why he couldn't be the final boss because he tried to abandon his sense of self. In theory, it was the perfect tool for someone else to manipulate. He had become a nearly blank canvas for another person to project his will on, but the source of his internal conflict was his inability to let go of his personal desires.

He retained his individuality, so he could not become a true tool, but without an external force influencing his decisions. his character wouldn't have worked This is where restraint comes in if Obito was the final form of Naruto's hypocrisy, someone who had unknowingly fallen victim to the same principles that plagued all shinobi. Madara was the answer to this issue, he was not without his own

contradictions

which I will explain later, but he was able to recognize hypocrisy as an inevitable facet of the shinobi world. Obito's derivative interpretation of the infinite tsukiyomi was a selfish escape from the harshness of reality. he made a relatively superficial assumption that the entire world was a hell that should be rejected.

I say shallow, not because his conclusion was illogical or inconsistent, but because he didn't have the same wealth of experience that someone like Madara had. Obito could have grown up. Madara had experienced a similar childhood of war, but he was able to mature and even experience a period of peace as an adult, it was only after he saw the flaws of this world. the so-called peace, which he considered the world a lost cause and pursued the infinite annuity tsukiyomi colleano svet. she called a toyota corona. O'Connor's call for social guidance. The citizens of Onizuka appear. I say, hey, well, how much Ecotec title nourishes us, and that's why I.

Nick comes shaming the beloved Inga calcaneal Kilohana Scott vacation Kim the world depends on duality and humanity is no exception to this for a society of ninjas to function the disputes were vital, but the allied forces wanted peace Naruto defended love and unity, but even he longed for a title to the conflict shown through his intense desire to surpass Sasuke in battle, what's more, the search for peace repeatedly generated new conflicts. Hoshi Rama ended the clan war with the founding of Konoha, but he also created a new threat in Madara. Itachi massacred the Uchiha clan to prevent a coup that could destroy the village, but it also led to Sasuke becoming a rogue ninja who nearly destroyed the village.

Examples like these highlighted a byproduct of this human paradox: the willingness to sacrifice one ideal to preserve another to protect the blade. hoshi rama sacrificed his bond with Madara Itachi sacrificed his entire clan bloodshed in the name of peace a world with only winners only peace only love such a thing was not realistically achievable in the dualistic reality of shinobi so Madara decided to create a new world In In a realm of dreams, these connections could be severed and the human paradox neutralized. No more duality, no more hypocrisy. That Madara was a hypocrite. He didn't directly undermine his core ideals because, as I said, he operated with this in mind.

He was also a byproduct of Obito wanting to recover his past and be with Reen, while the infinite tsukuyomi could also have been beneficial to all humanity, his main concern was himself, what about Madara? his family was dead his clan had rejected him his village had rejected him his best friend had rejected him he had no personal connections he abandoned the Moon's Eye plan it was not created out of a desire to restore what Madara had lost, but as a cure for the human paradox, in other words, wanted to save the world. He would be the one to rise above the rest of humanity as a messiah and guide them to a new world free of duality, but just because he had discarded human connections from him did not mean he had no humans.

I previously said that modern

contradictions

did not undermine the crux of his philosophy, but did serve to facilitate his downfall, however, when the sage of the six paths first distributed chakra to the population, that chakra. it was meant to connect people's mental energies and allow them to understand each other without words this ninja shoe concept was later transformed into ninjutsu we are sad the energy was projected inward to increase one's power this desire for power only amplified conflicts and fostered the Human Paradox because the stronger the power, the stronger the desire for conflict. The modernist saw this dilemma and sought to erase the chakra, but to make his dream come true, he would first have to take all the chakra upon himself to lead his chakra-free world.

He needed chakra, that's the first contradiction. although she is stubborn in her moderate

part

, her second contradiction is related to the first, although this was an octave for moderate to fully understand her power and her desire for more was unmatched, so naturally, her desire for conflict was equally tremendous. Now I know what you're doing. thinking it didn't matter I want peace yes Madara wanted that too everything returns to duality if Naruto could simultaneously seek peace and the conflict surely moderate could again and again follow his head attends a rebirth the passion of the moderates for battle took center stage when Kabuto asks if he wanted to go capture Nine-Tails, you know, a cornerstone of his Moon plan I.

Instead, he took the opportunity to show off his powers while Obito and Ten-Tails faced off against the allied forces. Madara prioritized a battle with Hoshi Rama, but when he faced a mere double of his rival, he sat down and waited for the real deal to come, even in his battle with Gai, he said, I will recognize this chakra of yours. Madara loves to fight, how could he erase that

part

of himself for good? From his dream world, would he even be moderate at that time? Aku Naruto stolen, you totally push another. My no, he wouldn't. His passion for conflict was too prevalent for him to abandon it completely.

However, his third and final contradiction was foreshadowed in his backstory. this one was a little more complicated than the rest to start with muttering hashirama were reincarnations of Indra and Asura the two sons of the sage of the six paths their dynamic is directly parallel to that of

naruto

and sasuke, so I think it is better to explore the flaws of the former through the latter's flaws when Naruto and Sasuke faced off at the end of part 1. Naruto demanded that Sasuke recognize him as an equal, but contradicted himself when he tried to impose his will on Sasuke.

I and that is final, that is not equality, that is dominance, which is why the two failed to compromise in a similar way during the formation of the leaf village. Both sides of the conflict saved Madara and Hashirama demanded to send you dominion, so once again there was no compromise, this cooperation was simply calmer. form of conflict as one moderate put it, after witnessing this flawed peace, he concluded that true understanding was a fantasy and he abandoned the very village he had worked so hard to create; He then returned alone to wage war against Hashirama and this brings me to perhaps the most important detail of Modaress's characterization situation.

Madara has a complex about the people behind him, something that was undoubtedly the result of his tragic education once his family was gone, he was alone with no one he could trust to watch his back, no one but Hashirama both of them. He managed to rekindle the friendship for a while, but when the moderate went rogue, Hoshi Rama was forced to betray that trust and literally stab his former friend in the back. These two men who had attempted to use their power to foster empathy had now been divided through battle. One solution was to remove the chakra from the image, but the irony of all this is that by starting the war together with Obito he became the threat that the world needed to unite under the same shinobi diadem.

He came to the conclusion that chakra only created conflict, but he didn't realize it. that fighting was a bond in itself, this applied not only against a common enemy with the fate of the world at stake, but also in the early days of the series, when Sasuke first fought Naruto, he stated that the shinobi of a high enough level could read each other's thoughts through just an exchange of blows and when the two faced off again after the 5k summit they were able to convey an entire conversation through a single exchange. Great ninjas like Naruto and Sasuke chatted during the battle and compromised. through conflict, therefore, by leading a world without chakra with moderate chakra, he would be separating himself from that world.

This connects to why he couldn't be Hokage. Naruto said in his confrontation with Obito that the Hokage is the one who walks in front of his comrades, but Moderately refused to allow anyone to get behind him and if he didn't let anyone follow him he couldn't lead anyone and couldn't walk in front. The mistake he and his rival had made was that they did not cultivate those who would. came after them, but while the will of Hoshi Rama, a fire finally reached Naruto had only reduced his potential successors, he used Obito is a tool for his resurrection, he saw Sasuke as just another pair of Sharingan and as well as Hashirama He had once sacrificed his friendship to protect the village.

Madara sacrificed his son Uchiha to protect the infinite tsukuyomi. He did exactly the same thing that he had criticized Hashirama for. He confused the cause with the end. He mistook his dream for true peace. He tried to become a God and avoid the traps of other humans. but he walked straight towards them anyway because he was just a human being. Mara's character incorporated the thematic narrative of the entire series, but while he tried to rise above the duality of humanity and thus reject the idea of ​​compromise, he ultimately failed, giving the protagonist a chance to defeat him, Unfortunately he wasn't defeated and as such his character arc wasn't really resolved, but all the details for a full character arc are there.

I guess he just doesn't feel complete since he lacks the same turning point. that the previous ideological clashes didn't have a final battle to set things straight, there was no chance for Naruto and Sasuke to prove him wrong on their own, instead we have Kaguya, this is the part where I say that Kaguya It ruined Naruto's ending at all. Seriously, while Kaguya isn't a terrible villain, she's just a terrible final boss for this particular series, as I've described in this and my previous video. Naruto is, at least in part, a story about human hypocrisy, once tempered, all doubts about the duality of humanity.

It was the endgame, you can't go any further than that, the issue had reached its logical conclusion, so it made sense that Kaguya wouldn't be subject to the same contradictions that plagued most of the antagonists up to this point. She wasn't even human, how could she? possibly succumbing to human hypocrisy, the closest thing he had came from two original anime episodes that developed his backstory, but even that was more ironic than anything else, he said he wanted to live a peaceful life, but his interactions with The divine tree ended up becoming the source of generations of human warfare on a scale it had never reached before, apart from that.

I don't really understand Kaguya, maybe there's more to be gleaned from Boruto's narrative impact of her, but if that's the case, she could have been better. instead, I served as a villain in that series, well, I'm not going to dwell on that. I want to give a meteor sigh, thanks to King Kevin, thirty stone cold, triple or seven, and all my other sponsors for their continued support. I feel like I should apologize for the time it took to make this video, this shouldn't have taken a month to make. I was slacking off, so I apologize for that, but it's Anime Expo/because I'm going there in the next few days, so there it is.

It will be a time where I won't be working on videos, but once Anime Expo is over I plan to get back to a more consistent upload schedule and on that note I plan to do a part 3 of this hypocrisy series just to address any interesting comments that I received and tie up any loose ends that I missed after that, you can expect a video on the prophecy and destiny in Naruto sometime in July, so stay tuned and I'll see you next time.