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Rustavelis heroes have complex characters; very often their passions are not easy to soothe. With actions, gesticulations and speeches characteristic only to them, they do not submit to the predestination of fate; and although they rely on God’s will, they themselves lead an independent life. Perseverance during misfortune and strength to overcome all obstacles are characteristic of their existence. They are not alone in their struggles; always ready to help others, they fight evil, betrayals, and lies with the help of their friends and win. This friendship goes further merely than the simple one of individuals and comes close to the friendship between peoples. Here we can see, once again, not only specific features of the Georgia of Rustaveli’s epoch, but the real nature of a Georgian man, for whom it is historically unacceptable to humiliate any other nation. This poem declares as well the highest feelings of all men – love one’s homeland.

The heroes of the poem have inner freedom, a result of their high level of spiritual culture. Their attitude towards each other to of the fact that the poem shows us the relations within a feudal society, it is not only the courtly treatment to women by the heroes of the poem that are worth paying attention to, but also the women themselves with their modesty, common sense and manners in their relations, either with their lovers or with their subjects. Georgians can sense some features of Queen Tamar in the appearance and in the Characters of these women. Indeed Rustaveli went further than the popular, medieval idea of the incompleteness and narrow-mindedness of women’s character.

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