Theme: love and fidelity in the folk ballad of england and scotland

THE MINISTRY OF HIGHER AND SECONDARY SPECIAL EDUCATION OF THE REPUBLIC OF UZBEKISTAN
SAMARKAND STATE INSTITUTE OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES FACULTY OF ENGLISH PHILOLOGY AND TRANSLATION THEORY

COURSE WORK
THEME: LOVE AND FIDELITY IN THE FOLK BALLAD OF ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND
Scientific supervisor: Mardiyeva Mahbuba Shavkatovna
Performed by: Narziqulova Muxlisa Shervoy qizi
301 - (uzb) group
SAMARKAND 2023

Content

Introduction..........................................................................................................3

1. The largest monument of Anglo-Saxon epic poetry…………….5
2. Good and Evil in Beowulf…………………………………….…….…...…..15
3. Representations of evil in the poem………………………….……..………..23
Conclusion……………………………………………………………..……….24
Glossary……………………………………………………………..………….25
Bibliography ………………………………………..………………..……..….27

Introduction

 “The more that you read, the more things you will know, the more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” —Dr. Seuss

We all already know that 2023 will be the year of human care and education in Uzbekistan. This was stated by the President of the Republic Shavkat Mirziyoyev during his traditional address to the Parliament and the people of Uzbekistan, «Xalq so`zi» reports. The main topics are social support for the citizens of the country.
“I think that it is necessary to define separately in the Constitution the status of teachers, the protection of their honor and dignity. Improving the quality of education in schools and the prestige of the teaching profession in society, improving conditions will be one of our main tasks in 2023,”¹ Shavkat Mirziyoyev said.
The folk ballad is a folk tale put into verse and set to music. Among
British ballads are some of the oldestas well as greatest folk songs we have. Romantic writers used to consider them the essence of all that
was most deeply national in poetry and music andmtheme; but now we know that in fact the ballad type, in form and subject matter, is remarkably similar over the greater part of Europe, and many of our most prized ballad themes are shared by peoples living as far apart as Spain, Scandinavia and the Balkans. That need be no cause for disappointment; the best British folk ballads are the equal of any for fine poetry, handsome melody, mettlesome spirit and high imagination.

The oldest of the ballads originated among a wild proud people in a barbarous time, and the qualities of that society reflect clearly in the ballad texts. In the hillier stonier parts of Britain lived a rough people,

cattle grazers and cattle thieves, petty nobility and their peasants who sometimes comprised a large gang or small private army to engage in raiding or the settlement of family feuds. Life in these parts was poor, stirring, bloody. Matters of loyalty and pride counted for a great deal. Such was the society that produced the earlier
Anglo¬-Saxon poetry holds great importance in both English literature and in the world as a whole and the “Beowulf ”is considered as the main work of this period which represents religious and cultural lifestyle of people at that time. Obviously, characters in any literary book are divided into two categories: good and evil. The perception of "good" and "evil" reflects not only the moral aspects of a person's life, but also testifies to a certain transformation of public consciousness that occurs in historical and cultural interaction(from political, external and internal to cultural ones).² The reflection of the perception of "good" and "evil" is presented, first of all, in the literary work of mankind and it is devoted to the study of various aspects of the life of a particular people in various historical eras.
In the period of the IX-X centuries are mostly represented by literary books that convey all the diversity of reality(conflicts, ceremonies, weather conditions), the heroic epic. The relevance of this work lies in the lack of knowledge of the moral values of the Anglo-Saxons in relation to the study of other spheres of life of the Scandinavian peoples. The purpose of the course work is to study the ideas of "good" and "evil" among the Anglo-Saxons on the basis of the data contained in the epic .
This coursework has identified these purposes:
1.Analyse of the main source on this topic, which is the Anglo-Saxon epic " Beowulf ", the ratio of Christian and pagan elements in it;
2.Characteristics of the Anglo-Saxons' ideas about "good" and "evil" in the early Middle Ages, on the example of the text of this poem.
3.The object of study is the Scandinavian epic " Beowulf ". The subject of study is good and evil, the Anglo-Saxons' ideas about them.
In the process of writing this course work, the following sources and literature were used. The main source is, as mentioned earlier, the Anglo-Saxon heroic epic " Beowulf ", written in the 10th century, translated by V. Tikhomirov, A. Korsun , Yu. Korneev, as well as notes by O. Smirnitskaya, M. Steblin-Kamensky and introductory article by A. Gurevich to it. I would also like to note the work of E.A. Melnikova "Sword and lyre. Anglo-Saxon society in history and epos". Besides, Alekseev Mikhail Pavlovich (1896 - 1981) wrote about medieval Anglo-Saxon literature - a Russian comparative literary critic, encyclopedic scientist, specialist in the field of foreign literatures (English, French, German, Spanish).

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