The Face of Another story
An engineer whose face is severely burnt in an unspecified work-related accident is given a new face in the form of a lifelike mask.
9 total · 5 major · 4 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| coping with being disfigured | major | Mr. Okuyama's face was disfigured in an industrial accident, and he wore bandages over his face until he was given a new face in the form of a lifelike mask. There was also a young woman with a badly scarred face. |
| husband and wife | major | Mr. Okuyama and Mrs. Okuyama. |
| personal identity | major | Mr. Okuyama had once identity in his bandages and quite another while wearing his mask. |
| romantic infidelity | major | Mrs. Okuyama willfully went to the apartment of a man who we are led to believe she thought was not her husband, but it turned out that it was him. |
| the human capacity for good and evil | major | Mr. Okuyama's mask granted him a certain anonymity that made it easy for him to do bad things he would presumably not have done otherwise. |
| brother and sister | minor | The girl with a scar on her face roomed together with her brother and they had a romantic episode. |
| incestuous relationship | minor | We are left to assume that the girl with a scar slept with her brother. |
| romantic jealousy | minor | Mr. Okuyama expressed a curiosity about if he could make his wife jealous after he was given a new face. |
| test of love | minor | Mr. Okuyama seduced his own wive, Mrs. Okuyama, while he was disguised in his mask, presumably at least in part to see whether she would do it. |