Conclusion Literature is a part of a real life. It reflects human problems, and carries historical events in itself. But it does not mean that literature show the history as it was. It has colourful embodiment, and tries to address to human feelings. A literary work cannot be isolated from real life. Any piece of literature expresses approach to the life from different points of view. As every person is an individual each author puts his/her view while creating any literary work. But, anyway, literature is whole and can not develop in isolation. Literatures of different nationalities and countries confronted nearly the same problems and if we try to divide period of the literature we can observe that though nationalities are different the periods of literature nearly the same. Thus, romanticism, realism, sentimentalism are known to all the members of literatures from different nationalities. So, we can come to such a conclusion that, world literature is a whole process, which embodies different isolated literatures of different familiar and unfamiliar nationalities. All the members of literature demonstrate their good and bad sides, problems with the help of their pen. And humanistic problems nearly the same, so, the core of the literature is unique for all the authors, they just express them in different ways.
One of the great members of the British literature, which is also a part of the world literature, is John Galsworthy, who had served for the development of the society through his literary activity. Though the author was a man of aristocracy of the British Empire, he wasn’t on the side of aristocracy. Even, after the publication of “The Forsyte Saga” Galsworthy proved himself as a humanist coming from aristocracy. There appeared a new term in the British literature, which is known as “Forsytism” up to our days. Forsytes are the typical hypocrites. They have everything, but they are not happy.
John Galsworthy’s “The Forsyte Saga” is one of the valuable pieces of the English and also world literature. The author gave the description of the time and the people of the period so precisely that, the readers believed the existence of the characters in a real life. Even they claimed that exactly their family was portrayed in “The Man of Property”. Once Galsworthy received a letter, where were written the following words: “Walking in the Cockspur Street I met a person who I knew immediately, but couldn’t recognize where I know him from. Brushing up my memory I recognized that it was Soames Forsyte”. (translation by Farida Shirinova from 30) It is a great success for a writer, to win
John Galsworthy is remembered not only as a writer, but also with his strong love to his wife, who had inspired him for writing. And I do respect the author for his endless love, yet some people reproach him with secret love affair. In the preface of “The Man of Property”Galsworthy wrote such a word: I dedicate “The Forsyte Saga” in its entirety, believing it to be of all my works the least unworthy of one without whose encouragement, sympathy and criticism could never have become even such a writer as I am.
This novel is of great importance from different sides. It reveals the period, which is really very confused. It has autobiographical importance; the love affair of the writer with his cousin’s wife depicted very skillfully in the novel. There are a lot of humanistic problems put by the author; most of them do not find their solution. The speech system and the system of characters form artistic unity cast in “The Forsyte Saga” and “Modern Comedy‟s” storybooks. At first, “Saga” was accepted in a parodical meaning – as a clear notion of life, devoid of heroic beginning contrary to Middle Age narration about heroes. But thereafter when “A Modern Comedy” appeared, not only the internal content, but also its heading gained the historical-philosophical meaning.
Socio-psychological analysis of reality, exercising of Forsyte cycle – is a visual witness of inexhaustibility of realistic method the champion of which was J.Galsworthy. Generalization coming from the artistic analysis of Forsyte world and fates and also the whole critical epoch are large-scaled, important in them, and evoke a strong interest towards J.Galsworthy. But, as is seen, inexhaustible attention towards his novels and stories has also other basis. Why his literary activity achieved much popularity and influence to XX century literature, television and films? The mystery of John Galsworthy’s popularity lies on his achievement of finding a harmony between individual and common, when aesthetic depth and beauty of the whole cycle gradually prepared with each episodes and colours of words. That’s why, reading of the Forsyte cycle gives not only a great pleasure of cognition of the world, but also an arrangement of aesthetic observations of the author’s artistic unity.
Galsworthy used a lot of words describing the modern life, which were new for that period, such as: bicycle, flying-machine, motor-car, cheap Press, rejection of the country life, and emergence of the town’s life. But the author did not consider himself “an author of scientific study of the period”. Because, to his mind, he had other purposes which very were difficult to realize. Post-war period England was very gloomy, and its description became too difficult. To give a real picture of the country, to depict the people of different generations, and the problems of the society was important for the author than to show modernity of the time. Though the writer was interested in the modern inventions, he also was a man of religion in some way.
He believed in God, and wished to be together with Ada in the other world. So, religion also related with love and beauty for him. The traces of his life experience, his suffers from love reveals itself in every sphere of his life.