Introduction
Human beings are the part of the natural world that is why human relations, qualities, and attitudes can be discussed with references to the relations between animals as the reflection of the humans’ world where social interactions are meaningful. From this point, it is possible to accentuate the definite features of the human relations basing on the examples from the animal world.
Thus, animals can be also presented as social beings because they live and communicate in groups which are organized according to certain hierarchies. Although wolves are often discussed as the symbols of independence and freedom in the natural world, these animals can successfully exist only in groups where two wolves make a pair in which relations are based on dedication and constancy.
Wolves are fearsome not only for the other animals in the wood but also for those individuals who decide to take a walk in this dark wood. Wolves are free and fearless creatures. They are traditionally discussed in different cultures as the symbols of strength, freedom, and independence. Wolves are superb animals, and their strength is in their cold will and grace. People are inclined to be afraid of wolves and associate them with some kind of brutality.
These misinterpretations and misunderstandings are typical for many persons. These people know little about the nature of a wolf. The unhappiest creature in the wood is the lone wolf which leaves its pack and tries to find the new home. It is almost impossible for wolves to live out of their pack because of the necessity to interact and struggle for living in a group. To be lonely is their punishment. Wolves live in the pack, and they do not know any other ways to live to satisfy all their needs. The lone wolf is an unhappy wolf.
Wolves’ souls do not orient to loneliness as the part of their independence. Their souls are directed toward the dedication to their group. Packs are organized round the most experienced and honorable pair of wolves. The strength of this pair is in the fact of the incomparable devotion of the wolves to each other.
Wolves form a kind of a family to live in a wood and be ready to any difficulties and obstacles because the wolf’s family is its pack, and the pack is the strong organization the main principles of which are to protect each other. Wolves are not aggressive in relation to the members of their own pack. The wolves’ enemy is any animal-stranger. Strong animals win, and wolves win because of their unity.
The pack is the family in which relations are based on the traditional hierarchy. The head of the family is the father, the head of the pack is the leader, and its offsprings are also the members of the pack. Dedication and constancy are the basics of the wolves’ pair relations. It is impossible for wolves to change partners till the death of the wolf from the pair.
Wolves have no ability to think over emotional conflicts and any ethical barriers, and they are only devoted to each other and live according to the natural laws. It is the moment when natural laws can be discussed as the moral laws which are accessible for everyone living in the world.
Wolves can impress people not only by their beauty and loftiness but also by the specifics of their group relations. Wolves easily follow those norms which are presented for people in the form of different ethical codes and principles of morality.
People are inclined to think about wolves as the representatives of the wild natural world where only the laws of strength can work. It is one of the people’s mistakes. Wolves are protective, and they are persistent in their desire and duty to find the conditions for their packs’ living. The search for food is not the only goal of the animals’ existence.
Wolves can have enough food, but there is no such food which can prevent wolves from sufferings after the other wolf’s death. The lonely wolves seek for the partner to form the pack and be the part of a group. Those wolves which live in the pack organize their life according to the principles of responsibility, constancy, and protection. When the pack is at risk to suffer from attacks of the other aggressive animals in their struggle for food, wolves are inclined to protect each other as the loving family members.
The wolf is not sole in the natural world in its monogamy and devotion to the partner. Swans and doves are the birds which cannot live without their partners. Their soul suffers from that pain of loneliness which can be understood by each living creature. Beavers and gibbons are the mammals which live in pairs as wolves.
Thus, the pain of loneliness is that factor which can connect people and animals because these sufferings have the same roots in the natural desire to live in a community and feel the other beings’ support. Humans often lack the protection of the group, but such mammals as wolves and gibbons can provide this protection to the members of their group. It is not a kind of a paradox, but it is a result of the social and personal development.
They say humanity and morality are the qualities which are characteristic only for people. They say these things because they want to believe in the fact and hide their animal nature. People do not like the comparisons with animals because they often accentuate the intellectual supremacy over the animal world, and they do not prefer to accentuate their animal nature.
Moreover, the intellectual superiority is closely associated with the emotional development. Morality and responsibility are discussed as human qualities, but animals are often more responsible and fair in relation to their partners than humans can be. Animals do not believe in anything, the moral contradictions are not at their level of development. They follow their instincts, and these instincts become extremely significant for understanding the importance of people’s moral actions.
In spite of animal instincts, wolves do not betray their partners. It is impossible to refer to the laws of the natural world while discussing the problem of the person’s morality because it can appear that definite animals are more morally developed than people. People can find a great number of arguments to justify their immoral actions and the fact of betrayal instead of changing their behaviors and attitudes. People live in the community and should follow its laws.
Conclusion
In his work “Joyas Voladoras”, Brian Doyle discusses the possibilities of the heart with references to a hummingbird’s heart and a whale’s heart. Living creatures have hearts, and these hearts can suffer from the pain as well as people’s ones. The problem of the living beings’ devotion and ability to live in a group or community without betraying the partner and the group members was discussed in this essay with the help of referring to the wolves’ pack.
Similarities of the two essays are in the approaches to explore the moral problems and concepts accentuating the person as the part of the natural world where all the creatures and all the processes are interconnected and can be presented with references to animals or birds.