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Beauty adornment in the works of Rudyard Kipling.
The best and most beloved of Kipling's prose works is "The Jungle Book". In it Kipling depicted the life
of wild animals, showed their character and behavior. It was intended for children. But Kipling’s
understanding of the real material world around him was so profound that this work grew in depth and
attracted the attention of adult readers all over the world.
The book is beautifully written. Each chapter begins with a poem and ends with a song. These
express the spirit of the adventure related in the chapter.
The main character of this work Mowgli is the child of an Indian wood-cutter. He gets lost in the
jungle and creeps into a lair of a wolf. The mother wolf lets him feed together with her cubs and calls him
Mowgli, which means frog. The presence of a man-cub in the jungle worries the animal world. The wolves
who have adopted him are free people but it is not so easy to enter him into the pack and make him a
member of the animal world. The tiger objects most of all and he demands the man-cub for himself.
His friends were Father Wolf, Mother Wolf and her cubs; Akela, the leader of the pack; Balloo, the
bear, who taught him the Law of the Jungle, Bagheera, the black panther who guarded him from danger;
Kaa, the rock python, Hathi, the wild elephant; Rama, the big buffalo.
Mowgli’s enemies are Shere Khan, the tiger; Tabaqui, the jackal; Bandar-log, the grey monkeys; the
Red Dogs.
Kipling thought the most important condition to reach an understanding between the living beings
was reason. Therefore, he admires those animals that have definite rules of behavior, and despises those
who have not. He characterizes Bagheera as a noble beast, describes the monkeys as a vain, stupid and
cruel people. Mowgli has many adventures and finally returns to the society of men.
"The Jungle Book" shows that man is a curious animal. He is the weakest and at the same time the
strongest animal in the world. It is his intellect that finally wins him power over nature. Kipling wants to
show that in an uncivilized society powerful animals triumph. It is they who have the right to live; the weak
animals submit to the power of those who are stronger. This is the law of the Jungle; it is the oldest law of
the world. Life is an endless struggle. Kipling regrets that the same law of the Jungle exists in a civilized
society loo. He wants to see man as a good and noble being. He has faith in strong men. The word
strong
is
to him a synonym to
noble
or
good.
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