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The creative background of Seton’s Wild Animal Stories

Ernest Thompson Seton’s original name was Ernest Ivan Thompson. He was born in Nancy, England in 1860. Erz, the twelfth of fourteen children. In 1865, the family immigrated to Canada. Ernest first lived in Lindsay, Ontario, and then grew up in Toronto. It is said that he was extremely smart when he was a child, but he had a bad temper, was vain, and longed for praise and glory. He began studying nature in and around Toronto at a very young age - by the age of fifteen he was compiling his own index of Canadian birds, a project that, while necessary, also demonstrated Seton's status as an amateur. of arrogance. He began his painting career, studying in Toronto and London. He hated his father so much that at the first opportunity he left home and went to live with his brother Arthur, who had settled in Carberry, Manitoba. Before going there, like another British-born naturalist, Gray Wolfe, he changed his name. In this way, he became Ernest Thompson Seton. "Seton" shows that his distant ancestors were Scottish nobles, which also helps to satisfy Ernest's sense of arrogance.

Perhaps it was Seton's sense of destiny that prompted him to complete his life's work. His detailed notebooks describing natural creatures, his illustrations, and his detailed descriptions made him the most outstanding naturalist of his time, even though he had no scientific training. From 1882 to 1885, he spent several of his happiest years in the Carberry Mountains of Manitoba. There, he was a strange man with disheveled hair and ragged clothes. He haunted the mountains with a picture folder and a notebook. While the farmers were working, he painstakingly counted the feathers on a bird: 4,915 in total.

After his time in Manitoba, he wrote some of his most famous books. He published four volumes of "The Prey" with more than 1,500 detailed and accurate illustrations. Wrote a paper entitled "The Birds of Manitoba", which provided an important reference for Percy E. Taverner's "The Birds of Canada", and he also published a A classic description of nature, "The Life of a Grouse". In 1892, the Manitoba government appointed him "Provincial Naturalist." Although this was a false title, it gave Seton a reputation that his previous amateur status could not give him. Most importantly, he used his experience over the years to write several excellent books, such as the story collections The Wolf of Winnipeg and The Trail of the Stag in the Dunes, as well as the collection Seton Animal Tales. The book established his reputation and established his future life path.

"Seton's Animal Stories" was published in 1898 and achieved great success. It gave Seton a degree of financial independence and won him the friendship of Theodore Roosevelt. It is said that Rudyard Kipling was inspired by this book to write his own Tales of the Wild Wood.

Seton bluntly claimed in his "Preface": "These stories are true." He went on to declare that although he failed to always insist on historical truth, he believed in specific individual details. A higher reality, the higher reality of a remarkable animal story. He claimed that in doing so he was in favor of realism in literature, the purpose of which was to examine specific, individual, and unique details rather than to create "types." In fact, Seton was one of Canada's earliest realist writers. The realist movement became active only in the 1920s through the works of Frederick Philip Grove, Martha Ostenso, Robert J. West Stead and others.

Seton insisted on the moral meaning of his collection. He said: "Animals will not be without any of the things that humans have, and the things that animals have are also shared by humans to a certain extent. Since animals are all creatures with emotions and desires, they are only different in degree from us. They are just different, so they should have their own rights as a matter of course." Just as he defended Indian culture, he also defended the rights of animals, which fully demonstrated his modern consciousness. Even today, his insights are considered far-sighted.

The stories in "Seton Animal Stories" are fascinating not only because of their attention to realistic details, but also because of the heroic characters of those animals. Each animal has a name, which gives it its own personality. Every animal is taller than the original, and a superior animal is performing a tragedy, because, as Seaton pointed out: "The life of a wild animal always ends in tragedy."

In order to pursue higher The truth, Seton is not afraid to exaggerate the details of the truth. The number of sheep killed by Lobo was obviously exaggerated. The skill of the gliding wild horse is also far-fetched and unbelievable. Yet despite this, there is something deeply convincing about these stories. They are all very dramatic stories, because life itself is adventure.

In the story of Sidon, the distance between the author and the narrator is not great. It is obvious that Seton wanted to mythologize his animals as well as himself, so the stories took the form of autobiography. A person with sharp eyes can certainly describe the life of an animal in detail, intervene in it, and imagine things that he cannot see.

The model for his imagination is his assumption that humans and animals belong to the same family. Animals feel and act like humans, but in limited ways. This brought Seton to the dangerous line of anthropomorphism, but he stepped carefully on the line. The characters in his stories are not, like Walt Disney's animals, merely humans in animal guise. Nor are they, as is the case in numerous sentimental stories, vehicles for conveying Christian allegories; on the contrary, they live the lives of animals, always miserable, very close to our own lives. Can you recommend some good-looking British-style anime, like Black Butler, a gorgeous British aristocratic style?

I thought about it, and I’d recommend only the American-style anime that I’ve watched, as the quality is more guaranteed~~ If my aesthetic taste is okay, hehe~~~~~~~~~~

NO.1 Blood of the Holy Demon is about a vampire hunter. The male protagonist is a priest with silver hair and blue eyes. He is very good-looking. But there is no second season, because the original author has gone to see God, and the comics have gone a long way. The painting style is very gorgeous, and it is said to be a comic that cannot be animated, because the comics are more gorgeous~~~The music and plot are very good~

NO.2 Vampire Hunter D. I am a V-controller, so I recommend this one. It is an animated film with English dubbing, British and Gothic style, and the music and plot are also good~~~~

NO.3 Lelouch of the Rebellion has two seasons, and a side story will be released in October this year! Looking forward to it~~~~~~~~~~

NO.4 The Count and the Goblin is interesting~ ~The gentle Edgar SAMA~~~~~~~~~~

NO.507-GHOST I like it so much~~~

NO.6 Vampire Knight is coming out It’s been three seasons~

NO.7 Ouran High School’s male public relations department is hilarious!

I can’t think of the others at the moment. The above is what I think the style of painting is okay and the plot is pretty good. , the protagonist is also pretty~~~~~Handbook Notes - Illustration (How to draw cute dividing lines)

A page of handbook usually includes the content of several modules, we can Use spaces, simple lines or illustrations to divide and facilitate unified management. Textures and illustrations may be more complicated. In this article, we will start with the simplest dividing line.

The simplest dividing line, the suitable length is not particularly long. The drawing method is simple: draw two wavy lines that are not very wavy, mark a dot or a small heart at the vertex (you can use it freely), and add a small decoration in the middle.

Straight line plus suspension method. Drawing method: Take a straight line as the main body, imagine it as a plane, and hang various materials at the bottom. Common materials: lights, flags, plants.

The characteristic of this type is that it is particularly romantic. The various rolled-edge love icons make you feel like you are walking in the aristocratic garden of Europe in the Middle Ages, watching Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet kiss each other.

The drawing method is very simple, just replace all the straight lines in the first part with waves.

How can the European pastoral style be without a light and elegant feather pen, draw!

When you practice to a certain level, you can challenge the above styles, I got one Name: Princess Wall! Isn’t it very romantic? Hahahahaha, I remembered a popular drama a while ago, I forgot the specific name, it was roughly similar to Princess Diary. I bet 100 cents that the heroine in the play must use this style of diary.

This type is more difficult than the first type, but no matter how difficult it is, it is still at the level of an elementary school student's art class. If you roll up your sleeves and dip your hands in ink, we can do it.

Looking at the watermarks in the above pictures, they should be the work of an illustrator from Weibo. I suggest you check it out if you are interested. The paintings are very good.

The irregular composition is based on the landscape, and the shape of the illustration itself is used to divide the account.

Master!