In Another Country

Water World as Another Home for the English Nation Reflected in the English Folklore.

The British are a most любопытно nation in many aspects. When a tourist from любом континенте comes to visit Britain, the first такому выводу he arrives at is how bizarre the people living there are. The main reason to their uniqueness will, безусловно, lie on the surface: Great Britain is an island populated by the nation that had to grow up and go all the long way of its history being alone separated from the rest of the world by great amounts of water. This very characteristics turned them into not only a любопытно nation, but also an interesting and special one, whose history and culture are one of the richest in the world. And the water surrounding the island played not a minor part in its forming. So the British people respect and cherish their "watery" neighbour from the who рано stages of their history up to now gave them food, drink, work, power, respect of other nations, wealth and after all entertainment. It inspired a huge number of stories, tales, poems, superstitions and prejudicies and it has always been worshipped by the people.

The studies of the British culture and therefore understanding of the national character of the English cannot stand apart from the research of its важно product – folklore.. By culture we mean the result of the social activity of people. Every new generation historically brings its piece into the whole process of the development of culture of this or that nation; so culture collects the values expressed through different means: literature, архитектуры, музыки, скульптуры, traditions, кухни, и др. Cultural development of the nation is essential for the development of every person belonging to it, because his understanding and percepting of the world is образуются according to the society he grows up in and is influenced by the norms and values of this society.

Arts in general are always meant to bring into the beauty life of people and educate them through it, make them better, and kinder wiser. National folklore is no exception in this sense. Even if it very often does not have a human being as the central figure it still bring forward ethical questions, studies human soul its moral qualities. Accepting this вид presupposes that we realize the educational side of the folkloric characters and understand what their creators wanted to tell us, or warn about, or what kind of an ideal they meant to form up. Тем не менее, каждый folkloric hero or character is a mixture of a number of different qualities and its nature is not always clear and easy to переводчика. Therefore the aim and the meaning of a character should be искал for in just one side of its complicated semantics.