(348 words) Female images in the epic novel "Quiet Don" play a very large role, each image is symbolic and carries a special meaning that affects the perception of the whole novel. But their fate is really very tragic, it is difficult to say that at least one woman in the novel is truly happy.
Women at that time were not easy, especially women Cossacks. They were always dependent on men, on men's whims, they had to meekly accept everything and agree with everything, roughly speaking, women were nobody. This is very well shown in the novel. But despite all this, the fire in female souls did not die out, but rather nourished those around them, for their inner strength they arouse respect among readers. It was they who, under all circumstances, continued to raise children, maintain home comfort and support. Thanks to women, it was much easier to survive those terrible events associated with war and revolution.
In the novel "Quiet Don" there are two main female images. This is the mother of Grigory Melekhov - Ilyinichna, his wife Natalya. These two women are important for Gregory and for the novel as a whole.
Ilyinichna - the personification of a real woman. It combines all the important female qualities - love, fidelity, mercy, justice, moderate severity. She taught Gregory only the best from his early childhood, and for the sake of her daughter's feelings, she takes her oldest son, the hated murderer, into her house, at the end reconciling with this. Ilyinichna carried through her whole life sincere motherly love and marital fidelity. Before death, she wants only one thing - to see her son Gregory for the last time, but fate decreed otherwise.
Natalya is also a real woman with tremendous moral strength. She was an unloved wife, but her strong love for Gregory helped her live on, give birth to children from him and share this feeling, care and warmth not only with her husband, but also with children. Natalya could not put up with her husband’s betrayal and betrayal and decided to commit a sinful soul - to commit suicide, after an unsuccessful attempt, she died from severe blood loss, having an abortion on her own, thereby killing not only herself, but also their common child with Grigory.
The fate of these women is a vivid example of the fate of most Cossack women. Their fates were rather broken not by cruel circumstances in the form of war, but by personal tragic experiences, loss of loved ones, betrayal.
Moby Dick
