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writing, listening and reading will also be used during the work [Fried-Booth, p. 9]. At the same time project work provides learners with digital age skills such as teamwork, problem solving, research gathering, time management, information synthesizing, utilizing high tech tools. With this combination of skills students become directors and managers of their learning process.
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Yusupova H. U.
PhD, Docent of English language and literature department
Bukhara State University, Uzbekistan DEPICTION OF WOMEN CHARACTER IN COLIN MCULLOUGH'S
"THE THORN BIRDS"
Annotation: This article studies description of woman character in Colin McCullough 's "The Thorn Birds". The article shows the character of XIXcentury women. Depicting their lifestyle the author opens the leading role of women in the society where discrimination and underestimation dominate. C.McCullough's this novel could open the real face of women which readers of contemporary and modern life want to see.
Key words: society, woman, feminism, realism, feeling, character, peculiarity, role.
Literary critics try to investigate woman character and its place in the society. For example, Virginia Woolfs novels show an intellectual commitment to political, social and feminist principles. She dedicated her novels to analyze the miseries and loneliness of women's lives that have been shaped by the moral, ideological and conventional means. Charlotte Bronte is one of the most famous women writers of the XIX century. Women's theme is one of the most important problems in her works. In her novels she focuses on the importance of women's issues in society, marriage and relationship with men.
European women in the nineteenth century lived in an age characterized by gender inequality. At the beginning of the century, women enjoyed few of the legal, social, or political rights that are now taken for granted in western countries: they could not vote, could not sue or be sued, could not testify in court, had extremely limited control over personal property after marriage, were rarely granted legal custody of their children in cases of divorce, and were barred from institutions of higher education. Women were expected to remain subservient to their fathers and husbands. Their occupational choices were also extremely
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Middle- and upper-class women generally remained home, caring for their children and running the household. Lower-class women often did work outside the home, but usually as poorly-paid domestic servants or laborers in factories and mills.
The immense success of the novel in the 19th century was mainly due to the fact that "The novel was the vehicle best equipped to present a picture of life lived in a given society against a stable background of social and moral values by people who were recognizably like the people encountered by readers, and this was the kind of picture of life the middle-class reader wanted to read about". Many turned to novel writing because it did not require any knowledge of classic texts and poetry on the part of the writer. New technologies allowed for faster, more efficient printing, which, in turn, meant that a large number of books could be sold and women for the first time could make money as writers.
They wrote about domestic life. It was believed that women, contrary to men, only wrote popular literature.
The characters that most women novelists used were very diverse, as can be seen from the genres in which they wrote. Interestingly, they did not give them the freedom that some of the authors enjoyed. The worlds they put their heroines in were restricted by ideology and customs. At the end of the 19th century, most of them used the figure of a woman artist as the heroine for their novels and an invader of the masculine world. There were different themes that dominated women's writing.
Colin McCullough's novel of 1977 "The Thorn Birds" became an international publishing sensation, as its sale exceeded 7 million copies. This is a saga of three generations in an Irish Catholic family in Australia, which arouses interest in the history and culture of this continent, as evidenced by the many books and films delivered by "Down Under" that entered the annals of pop culture during the success of "Singing in Blackthorn". However, McCullough received periodically critical statements about her fictions throughout her career, and never expected to get a huge success for a 900-odd leaf blockbuster.
The novel "The Thorn Birds" is a recognized masterpiece of world literature. For many decades, millions of women are read to them! It is a romantic saga about three generations of a family of Australian workers, people who find it difficult to find their happiness. Chanting feelings strong and deep, love of the native land, this book abounds with truthful and colorful details of Australian life, pictures of nature.
In the novel "The Thorn Birds", representing the half-century chronicle of the three generations of the clergy labor family, there is an attractive novelty, and in the most vital material - little-known, soundly, seriously submitted, and in characters - unusual, romanticized, and in fascinating plot twists and turns which are strong human passions and deep attachments.
We must give the author due. She described all the sufferings of a woman in almost all cases of life with the help of her heroin. But the same could show that
the woman's pain is understood only by a woman and only because of this her book became a bestseller.
Colin McCullough one novel was able to show everything that the reader always wanted to see in novels of the modern era.
Fiona Cleary was in the kitchen, peeling potatoes. She was a very handsome, very fair woman, a little under medium height, but rather hard-faced and stern; she had an excellent figure with a tiny waist that had not been thickened, in spite of the six babies she had carried beneath ... from waking to sleeping she lived in the kitchen and back garden, her stout black boots to laundry to vegetable.
It is with the description of Fiona that the author of the novel begins to draw the character of his heroes. Fiona, like every woman, knows her place in the family. She is the moral support of the family. From this passage, we can easily assume her position, imagine her as a woman. As one of the leading heroines of the novel, Fiona is never lost before difficulties, and this character forces the reader to take everything as it is.
Very realistic scenes describing the loss of a son and husband. In the image of Fiona, we, and in truth, see a strict, restrained, as well as loving mother and wife. She always appreciated her husband very much and thanks to this the children had respect for their father, and the environment around them respected the family.
"Daddy got caught in the fire; he is dead. Stu must have disturbed a boar, and it charged him. He was dying and smothered him. He is dead too, Mum. "
Reading the novel, we can say with confidence that Fia has never experienced anything like this to Paddy. Loving another, but because of deception, marrying Paddy, she acted as a good wife and mother. But losing her husband, she admits Maggie, how expensive he was to her. She knew that she could always find support, but Paddy also took an example from her.
The image of Fiona, significant and in many respects typical, the author paid tribute to the Australian woman - toiler, keeper of domestic subsistence economy. Fiona is the mother of six children, the hostess, who is constantly busy in the kitchen, now in the garden, restrained, laconic, proudly carrying her secret, never complaining of fate. It seems that the years do not have power over her: she is "a real beauty", her face is "stern, severe", "impeccable figure", her whole appearance glows with femininity.
There are many examples of the character of Phi from the novel, but enough of what she admits to her daughter in one of the conversations, when as a mother she first speaks the truth about Dan, about Maggie's son. Thanks to this case, the mother and daughter for the first time feel the closeness and the author shows how far they were from each other.
"Let me whisper you a little secret, extraordinary or typical, I'm a very unhappy woman. For one reason or another I've been unhappy since the day I met Pakeha. Mostly my own fault. I love him, but what he did
This example is an image of the masculinity of a woman who endured
everything in life only because of the one child whom she loved most, and he too gave her due. Author's skill in describing the characters rises to its peak with the description of Fi, it is the source of inspiration, it is the cause of all developments on the farm, it becomes the leading face for the sake of children after the death of her husband.
A four-year-old girl appears on the pages of the novel Maggie - the main heroine of the novel, which is destined to live in the book a lifetime. With apparent sympathy this character is described, original and attractive, remaining in the reader's memory. Unlike most characters of the novel appearing on its pages by established people, this image is given in development. Before our very eyes the child turns into a girl, then into a young blooming girl, sweet in her naivete, obviously inheriting maternal femininity and charm. She too was single-minded and never gave up. Maggie who grew up among the guys and did not understand anything in women's affairs dreamed of working outside the house, like everyone else. Perhaps after Ralph's departure, she decided to forget herself?
Describing her life, the author shows that a woman suffers everything in this life. Her teacher was her mother and she never regretted her actions. Like every proud woman, she only dreams of her prince, but she never confesses to anyone except herself. Female nature, described by McCullough, is quite common to all women of the world, but you will not read this in all books. McCullough was able to show the woman who, for her love, is ready for anything, but at the same time she does nothing. But when she gave birth to Dan's son from Ralph, she completely forgot about Ralph and dedicated her life to children. It repeated the story of her mother, but in some small difference. She adored her son, but the death of Dan Maggie was courageous.
By creating in the literature characters of a special type McCullough revealed the reality of individuals, and marked this special breed of humanity, who does not depend neither on kinship or on class, or even the level of education. She introduced her creation not only with individual stylistic or scenery features (although the author has a recognizable and individual style, and interesting plot), furthermore she could bring the characters of a special type in the literature.
Colin McCullough, even in describing the feminine character, was able to give what is called realism.
Litearture:
1. Гиленсон Б. Сага о семье Клири. Предисловие к роману «Поющие в терновнике», Москва, 1990, стр.11
2. McCullough Colleen. The Thorn Birds. NewYork, Avon Books, p.488
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