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SEVDA İMANOVA
TYPOLOGY OF CHARACTERS RELATED TO MAGIC OUTLOOK
IN THE EPOS OF “ASLI-KARAM”
SUMMARY
Azerbaijani epos provide rich materials from a perspective of studying
typological relations of folklore and magic. Essentially, this is the case
related to typology of epic genres. Every single epos preserves its founder’s
national and spiritual values. From this aspect, our nation’s ancient-
mythological as well as magical-mythological outlooks have kept their traces
in Azerbaijani epos. One of such epos is “Asly-Karam”. This epos of love
differs from the rest due to the richness of its magical outlooks.
The epos
completely consists of magical imaginations. Both of the opposing
characters represent magic here. Karam is the positive hero while Black
Priest is the negative hero. Magic is the weapon of both characters. Karam
battles using the help of applause and curse. Black Priest, however, uses
spell, magic and occult methods.
Rəyçi fil.ü.f.d., dos. Afaq Ramazanova
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NƏBİYEVA VÜSALƏ
e-mail: vusala_nv@mail.ru
Bakı Biznes Universiteti
“OF MICE AND MEN” IDEA, THEME, PROBLEM
Açar sözlər: böyük, böhran, adi, real, faciə
Key words: tremendous, depression, ordinary, realistic, tragedy
Ключевые слова: огромный, депрессия, обычный, реалистический,
трагедия
Honestly I was deeply imprested after reading “Of Mice and Men”. I
read the book without stopping, on one breath. There was such feeling that
all scenes were played directly in front of my eyes. I can’t simply choose the
word to express my feelings about this book. This book is just marvelous,
tremendous, and gorgeous. This is such kind of book that after reading you
stay speechless. You are full of emotions that strangle you and you become
out of breath. John Steinbeck had his own manner of writing that
distinguished him from others. The problems that
he touched sound with all
times just changing its views and forms. Problems are actual, people are
actual similar with all periods. In this work John Steinbeck described
America in a condition of the Great Depression. Chaos, lack of money,
hunger, isolation etc. In this period people tried to earn money by any ways.
The main aim was just survive. But George and Lennie didn’t want simply
survive. It was something mystic for them. They had a dream. They wanted
the ranch, rabbits and different animals. Maybe their dreams were just
umbrella where they just tried to protect themselves from the rain of reality.
How so little things are necessary for few people only happiness! And how
they were happy that they had dreams!
George and Lennie are two best friends wandering across America
during the Great depression for job searching.
Low and dexterous George
wants to save up some money to buy his own ranch. Physically strong, but
childly naive Lennie, who suffered from autism, has simple dreams to have
his part of land where he can take care of his rabbits and some other animals.
Having arrived to a new place, young people meet Slim, the strongest worker
on the ranch, and the owner's son Curley. Slim at
first sight has sympathy for
George and Lennie, and the X boxer Curley wasn't so friendly to these two
men.
Curley envied physical power of Lennie and therefore constantly tried
to find something weird in Lennie and created the fight and beat him. On the
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ranch also lived Curley's wife, the lonely young and beautiful woman who
couldn’t realize her dreams and leaded the ordinary life being ranch owner’s
son wife. With the husband who she never loved. George at first sight didn’t
like Curley’s wife and noticed Lennie to be careful with her. Curley’s wife
affected George and Lennie's further destiny and opened the door of tragedy
for these two men. Other characters also have their specific features that
color this work.
All these characters are the pieces of puzzles and reading all of them
we get the whole picture. Crooks is one of the character
that makes the work
more dramatic and shows how the person can be unhappy and loneliness that
the person leads and his or her isolation makes him or her absolutely
tolerable and accepts life without any question and only ascertains the facts
that you can’t change anything. And one character that we have to mention is
Candy, his sorrow about his life and about his dog that he didn’t shoot with
own hands. And regrets that can’t be changed.
Of course mice play just symbolic part in this novel. Here is less talk
about mice and thanks mice we get aware that Lennie, the main hero of the
novel, is a man who has mental problems. Lennie loves stroking mice. And
his main problem was that he liked to stroke all beautiful things that he liked.
All the rest characters are people. Here is mentioned about people’s
unjustified cruelty, dissoluteness, hopelessness, hopeness,
friendship which
comes to an end when becomes inconvenient, and about dreams which are
never can become the real. The main leitmotif in this work is utopia.
We can freely call John Steinbeck the master of great description of
characters of people, their inner world and their hesitation, struggles, suffers
etc. All his characters become not bookish but realistic you feel that you are
not reading the book but you are in the middle of the happened action. And
this is the main artistry of the writer. Reading this book we are getting sure
that this work full of dramatism and psychologism.
George and Lennie travel from one farm to
another hoping to earn at
least a little money to buy a farm of their dream where they can grow their
own animals and food, be their own master. They want to be independent
and live with their own life. Lennie is the man of good-nature but with
mental problems he generally doesn’t understand what he does but he is
physically strong man. But George is the other side of the coin because he is
rational person and Lennie is just physically too strong man. They complete
and help each other.
George always protects Lennie with all possible ways that he can but
it’s pitty that not till the end. Maybe killing Lennie George
helped him much
more rather than covering his mistakes. Maybe George understood that He
just lied to himself that he helped Lennie but in reality he just spoiled his life