The Russian national character in the aspect of the linguistic and cultural field – an example from Sholokhov’s short story “The Fate of Man”

literary works often contain the deepest emotions of a nation and best express the character of a nation. Based on the historical background of the Second World War, “The Fate of Man” is one of the masterpieces of the famous Russian writer Sholokhov, which depicts the extraordinary past of an ordinary man from the point of view of the lower class people in the Soviet Union, and contains the distinctive ethical values and moral tendencies of the Russian nation. This paper tries to construct the Language and Cultural Field Theory of the novel “The Fate of Man”, analyze the cultural concepts that can reveal the “Russian national character” in the text of the novel, and analyze the concepts of “toughness”, “family”, ‘responsibility’, “social responsibility” and “social responsibility” in the text of the novel. Through in-depth analysis of such cultural concepts as “toughness”, “family”, “responsibility”, ‘religion’ and “ambivalence and extremism”, the author's picture of the fictional world is explained. At the same time, it reveals the characteristics of the Russian national character emphasized in the work and the national cultural connotations embedded in the work.

Russian national character, “the fate of man”, linguistic and cultural field, culture, literature, language, worldview