The Images Of Animal In Tikhy Don

Tikhy Don is written by Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov who is a famous writer in Soviet. The novel successfully shows the up and down fates of Cossacks in the special history period and creates a world of nature which is freedom, colorful and corresponding to the human being. Animal in Tikhy Don as a vital important part of nature is usually ignored or described into nature by the researchers, lacking of special and deep study. In fact, the images of animal in Tikhy Don are worth to explore.First of all, Sholokhov shapes more than one hundred images of animal in Tikhy Don, forming a colorful world of animal. It totally embodies the regional culture of Cossacks in Don and the deep feeling between the author and animal. Secondly, the images of animal have profound cultural connotation. On one hand, some images of animal can clearly reflect the cultural implication of Russian, and some load the hero’s inner emotion in the novel; on the other hand, the beast nature in human being’s contrasts to the human nature in animal’s at the inducing of war. What is more, the world of animal in a normal state of being powerfully indicts the cruelty of war and the darkness of human being’s nature. Last but not least, the images of animal have an important relationship between narration of fiction and ecological significance. At the aspect of narration, the images of animal not only form the environment and background of roles’activity, expressing the psychology and emotion of roles’, but also exist on a coincidence in the fates of human being and animal. At the aspect of ecological significance, it provides some value of reference for people in pursuit of harmonious ecology, and provides a new angle of view for the research of ecological literature.