The Morality of Itachi Uchiha (Naruto)

I think it's time to review Itachi Uchiha's

morality

in Naruto. It's interesting that certain characters seem to be judged more by their intent and loyalty than by their actions. No one embodies this idea better than Itachi. I want to take a look at the arguments of both.

itachi

the villain and

itachi

the hero and apply that to the way

morality

is treated in

naruto

itachi was born in the hidden leaf tofugaku and mikoto we all know how skilled and advanced itachi was as a shinobi, just one step behind shisui from the flicker of the body he became a genius at age seven he took the attunement exams alone at age 10 and at age 11 he was a member of anbu black ops itachi was a prodigy a genius a phenomenon through and through but itachi was selfish he was a villain His idea of ​​peace did not consider anyone but his brother and his superiors his village the young

uchiha

idolized the leaf he saw the village as something greater a community with an even greater purpose than his own clan than his own family his own flesh and blood Itachi throughout the series is acclaimed for his genius, his wit, his intelligence and his observation skills.

We have seen how far in advance Itachi was able to plan certain events and situations, but even so, Itachi did not seem to understand why the members of the Uchiha clan they clung so tightly to their name and among themselves since toby rama senju assumed the title of hokage they never stood a chance the second hokage gave them ownership of the police force their only prominent role in the life of the village as orochimaru says those Those who fight crime tend to be He was easily disliked by the initial thought that they were a clan possessed by evil and after the existence of Modera and her burning hatred as well as the wars with the clan, Toby Rama was strong with this belief, a sensitive clan whose emotions could be easily triggered, Tobirama needed to keep an eye on them in case there were moderate followers, as Urjumaru calls them, to keep his village safe, even if there were good

uchiha

dedicated to the blade like Kagami, who worked directly alongside Tobirama, the second Hokage still chose Sarutobi to become.

Hokage after him, the uchiha were again ignored, the uchiha had the right to claim the power of the village as much as the senju without the uchiha, without matera, there is no village hidden in the leaves, but they were never given any position of power. authority in their government there were not even any uchiha on the Konoha council, there were no uchiha elders and again after Hirozin, no uchiha were put in positions of power and instead they chose to go with Minato as the fourth Hokage to add him later of the Ninetales attack. The uchiha were immediately blamed and then relocated to the outskirts of the village, a small corner dedicated to the hidden leaf's strongest clan dedicated to their creators as the senju blood dried their power and their influence remained as strong as ever, but the uchiha were monitored disrespectful segregated and untrustworthy but itachi could not understand this he could not understand why despite 40 years of marginalization why the uchiha remained committed to their family itachi attended the uchiha meetings he saw their frustrations his anger the reasons for the coup He also knew Danzo's intentions, but he never had the idea of ​​conspiring with Hirozen to try to stop them.

Instead, he took Danto's proposal or threat and chose one person from possibly hundreds of people. Itachi is selfish, he never thought about all the individual people. lives he was about to erase itachi killed innocent people husbands and wives brothers and sisters children people with dreams goals aspirations just like his people just like sasuke people with loved ones he never cared about itachi could have saved sasuke's life but as we see sasuke grow into this mentally ill and eternally enraged individual, sasuke was never truly saved, he couldn't grow up with a community to support him and guide him to love him, instead he grew up with unbearable rage and itachi's evil didn't It stopped there, neither did his selfishness.

We won't stop there, putting his younger brother back in jutu to watch his parents die over and over again to remind him that he is and that he was helpless, that he was a coward. Itachi is not a good person. Sasuke idolized his older brother, but instead, he adored him. Itachi. he called him weak and cowardly, piling on an already intensely traumatic experience. Itachi is responsible for creating Sasuke, who only saw violence as the answer. Itaji is the reason for everything that is wrong in Sasuke's life and we are supposed to believe that he loved his brother.

None of this is love. True love would have seen Itashi use the full range of his mangekyo Sharingan. All of his abilities tested his power to fight against Donzo. And Anbu's true love would have made Hitachi protect Sasuke with his life and not just his physical body. but he would have protected his little brother from a life of trauma, violence and unbridled anger from this perspective itachi is a villain a selfish monster but let's look at itachi the hero the uchiha are a clan that feels great love a genetic bond that is stronger Whatever, Itachi embodies this love when it comes to Sasuke, he knew very well that his brother adored and admired him and that Itachi would do anything to save his life, but he also knew that the best way to save Sasuke's life was that existed.

Paz Hirozin states that at the age of seven Itachi thought like an Ahokage, as was said, a genius from beginning to end Itachi matched this genius with sensitivity the first sight of war at the age of four traumatized him and led him down a path to become the strong enough to one day bring peace in addition to the power he sought as previously mentioned Itachi thought like a hokage here and said he paid attention to the teachings and signs of those who came before them and understood the duties of a village in its shinobi He knew that the Uchiha's anger was unwarranted, a proud clan that believed their power was beyond anything inside or outside the village, they felt beholden to a position of power in the Leaf simply because they believed their abilities were much greater. greater than everyone else's, Itachi believed otherwise looking at him clearly The uchiha never suffered any harm, sure they were relegated to a marginalized and unwanted police force, but they were never killed or harmed in any way because they were uchiha, their children attended The academy like any other, beyond Itachi's perspective, was assigned the task of being a police force.

For the village it was an honor, no matter how they got to this position because it is in line with Itachi's dedication towards peace, so for him, any act would save the most people, any choice that would lead to peace, Even if he had to be hated, it was okay. with that because that was the duty of a shinobi itachi's prophetic eyes already saw that dedication to an arrogant clan would bring him no closer to anything more than what he wanted to achieve the curse of hatred and the will of fire lived within hitachi but never They were really into fighting each other the curse of hate was an ideal that led to the moral superiority of the uchiha with its roots going back to their ancestors the otsutsukis this was reason enough for them to believe that their clan their blood was their right to power By understanding this ideal and its history, understanding Moderate's failure and how his selfishness opposed Hashirama's altruism, how the will of fire ended up being stronger than the curse of hate, it is easy to see why Itachi would subscribe to this, whatever it might bring. peace to a shinobi world full of violence itachi was committed to that more than itachi was pressured by his clan to maintain the curse of hate fugaku only saw his son as a conduit between the blade and the clan only supported hitachi's success when it benefited to the uchiha and the members of the uchiha themselves came out to accuse itachi of killing shisui the clan had already distanced itself from hitachi of the leaf and yet he was still here dedicated to preserving his reputation but what they did not seem to understand is the magnitude that a blow would have had on the blade.

It would become a bloodbath and would surely evolve into a world war. This could mean thousands and thousands of casualties. The blade destroyed, Sasuke killed and Itachi himself killed Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mills. Classic utilitarian principles seem to align with Hitachi's, but Itachi goes far beyond utilitarianism. is a form of consequentialism that analyzes how the consequences of certain actions affect people in its simplest form, if the consequence of an action benefits a greater number of people than it harms, then it is the morally acceptable and right action; However, when we get into murder and innocent people that's when utilitarianism gets a little murky and complex as Kant's categorical imperative comes into play and a lot of different factors get involved, but this is all for saying that itachi takes the simple parts of utilitarianism and takes them to another level when he essentially decides that the ends justify the means to itachi there really was no other option, he knew that if things got bad a civil war would destroy the peace he sought, Obito said it himself, it could trigger the fourth ninja war, innocent lives would be lost. it would mean the death of sasuke, even putting danzo aside, there was the imminent threat of obito, who intended to destroy both the blade and the obito uchiha, he almost succeeded with the nine tail, so he stopped both the donzo and the on bu, as well as obito, and tried to save. both the clan and the leaf in one night it was impossible itachi made the only decision he could itachi ended up saving countless lives and future lives imagine the leaf village affected by the war and the casualties are some of the young shinobi of the academy that all we know and love rock lee neji ino shikamaru the hugo clan the aburame client all these clans and prominent individuals itachi saved them all uchiha's death was inevitable and that's why he put them to rest and maintained his reputation after the massacre the uchiha would known as a once powerful clan who were only disliked for their arrogance and status as a police force, not for their coup attempt on the blade.

Itachi endured all this hate and trauma and saved hundreds because he was a hero. Itachi's intentions when he tells the truth to Sasuke are what's important. Since they are the representation of one's own heart and character, Itachi did all of those things so that Sasuke could be hailed as a hero and maintain the honor of his clan, one that was rapidly fading, if not already lost, when he was revived. , helped his brother. He found a sense of closure and acknowledged his failures, saving Killer Bee and Naruto. Itachi made sure that Naruto did not make the same mistakes as him, falling into the idea of ​​carrying the burdens of the world solely on his shoulders.

Itachi did what no one else could and he is a hero because he embodies the idea of ​​what ishinobi is, as Hashirama says, a shinobi is someone who endures in order to achieve his goal and if that goal was to protect the village, hirozin hashirama and Naruto saw Itachi as a hero. at 14 he had one night to make the hardest decision any 14 year old could have to make a decision that ended up saving people the definition of a hero is someone who is admired or idealized for his bravery to do something that no one else a normal person could do or even think about doing that is the perfect definition of itachi uchiha.

The final perspective taken when it comes to Itachi is one that looks at him right down the middle, seeing him as an anti-hero or an anti-villain, one whose intentions from the beginning were pure and honorable, but the way he executed them it was not. He clearly looks at Itachi, who was a child in an unfathomable situation. Danzo's isolation of the young shinobi was genius. Donzo had a file on the young man. Uchiha knew that he was a sensitive boy who loved his brother and had intense loyalties to the Leaf and Donzo knew that with the right circumstances he could goad Itachi into doing exactly what he wanted him to do and so he attacked. his surroundings.

He attacked Shisui, who then committed suicide. He put Hitachi in the anbu. He slowly isolated the shinobi when Sasuke remembers his older brother before the massacre. Itachi's world seems to crumble before him and what he focuses on is this same isolation, the loneliness he felt. This was true, Itachi, if no one with Shisui was gone, there was no one to tie him to the clan, as his father certainly couldn't, while Shisui was dedicated to the village, he was equally dedicated to the clan trying to find a bloodless solution and him. he was so close if it wasn't for donzo shisui wasn't as opposed to the clan as itachi but with xi sui ghan who taught him about self-sacrifice and who personally asked him to protect the village and the uchiha name itachi was feeling the pressure, donzo laid seeds of doubt and presented him with a false dilemma and with obuto lurking over his shoulder and one night, to make a decision, only one option was clear, his clan could not be saved and at least with this choice he would avoid a potential war and save his brother Itachi alone surely felt that he had the weight of the world on his shoulders pressures to be a great shinobi to honor his wishes.now fallen best friend to save his brother the pressure of solving the clan's problems and bringing peace to everyone at 14 years old it was clear to hitachi that this was the way to do all these things.

I find it interesting that Kishimoto in this scenario can be treated as an unreliable narrator even though it is his world and he has authority over it. A lot of his time is spent defending Itachi for his intentions, his loyalty rather than his actual actions, so it's up to the reader or viewer to deviate from the image Kishimoto has established for Hitachi and make their own decision about who he is. and questioning or accepting his status as a hero glorifies Itachi. In addition, this series glorifies loyalty and especially if that loyalty is accompanied by self-sacrifice. Shinobi are ninjas dedicated to their villages.

People who must follow orders by any means necessary. Hashirama's definition of shinobi again is someone who endures to achieve his goal again the champions of the self-sacrifice series especially for minotau people and kushinas jiraiyas hirosens and now itachis no matter what you do as long as it is in the service of your village that is what makes a shinobi be great and even legendary, in some cases, when shinobi take alternative routes and align with their own beliefs, they are looked down upon at the white fang who was pushed to take his own life simply because he chose his comrades over his duty, furthermore, the series glorifies the blade, a sacrifice for the blade, sees itachi as a hero after itachi's truth, this revelation is no one but the villains. from this series mainly kabuto is unfazed because hitachi committed genocide all those innocent uchiha lives are forgotten in the face of loyalty itachi is able to forgive himself and accept what he did because he felt that he did it in the name of the peace that itachi believes in a world that cannot separate illusion and reality along with genjutsu-enabled eyes that can further separate the two concepts, good and evil become relative to one's beliefs and the world one has created, Itachi is not classified as itself in no direction. he only talks about what happened what was necessary from his perspective in a world that encourages loyalty and sacrifice for the greater good it is clear why they see him as a good person shinobi have to do difficult things it is part of the job in the Hitachi's own world in his reality what is right and true is the village what is worth fighting for is peace the reason he protected Sasuke was because in his world that was crumbling before his feet the lines between the reality and illusion were blurring the only thing itaji was absolutely sure of was that sasuke was innocent sasuke represented all that was good and that his love for his little brother is something he felt was absolutely real it was true he also said that as death embraces you you will realize what you are in both cases of after the death of itachi showed a non-verbal and verbal confirmation of his love towards sasuke good or bad itaji was someone who would sacrifice everything for his little brother when he realized who could stand the hatred for his brother I think that was when he fully believed that no person I don't think the clan was purely good or evil if you think about the five villages in their history they have all done morally corrupt things whether it be the Onoki stones and his use of Akatsuki, the fog and his fights to the death, the blade operation. under the anbu of danzo the morality of the shinobi world is very different and much darker than our own loyalty means more in that world than any other value itachi knew that the leaf did not see the uchiha as a good clan but at least with this In this act could maintain his reputation and at least see that the last of the remaining uchiha sasuke was someone who was objectively a good hero when it came time to kill itachi because people are limited based on what they believe is right and true and based on his reality, his sasuke would be in the spotlight if kishimoto's goal was to create a character that people always have extreme reactions towards, then he happened to me, that's what makes itachi an interesting character, that It is the legacy of Itachi Uchiha.