Ethnic Picture of the World and Expression of Mentality in Ancient French Heroic Epic (on the Basis of Heroic Poem "The Song of Roland")
During a globalization the cultural diversity of the people increases, that is connected with the purpose to keep the originality. The originality is an ability to think or express oneself in an independent and individual manner or it is a creative ability. For studying this problem more and more, works of scientists affect such a concept as an ethnic picture of the world which is well traced in art culture and literary monuments of the nation. According to most scientists, the epos reflects the considerable facts and events of people's life, presents a huge picture of national history. At the same time, the epos is about life of people in details, their culture, historical customs, traditions and ceremonies. In the epos, there is a balance in the biography focusing on any private phenomenon. The image of integrity of life is one of the leading functions of the epos. In ancient literary monuments, it is possible to find traces of origin of culture, to retrace a formation of mentality of a certain nation, to understand their outlook. Thus, the ethnic picture of the world of the nation even more often reflects in epic art of the people where the main character is an ideal of national character and an example of mentality of all people; what is shown that this problem has a huge field for research. The scientists explore the ancient novels for having the information about period when this art of literature was written, then they analyse the structure of text and the insides of characters and make a conclusion about national identity. This problem is so big for research.