Eliza Orzeszkowa shows in his novels standards and ethical principles that young
people should be followed in life. "Over
twenty" is a book that will teach the reader decent attitude, an indication of his practice ethical and moral education of young people with patriotic feelings and civil rights. To this end, the author goes back to the symbols mogił (because of censorship on certain issues could not write directly).
In the "twenty" meet with the cult mogił. Nut writes about two mogiłach whose presence is extremely important for understanding the transmission track. These are the grave of John and
Cecilia, and insurgents from the year 1863.
Tomb of John and Cecilia is very old, comes from the sixteenth century At the time, appeared in the vicinity couple of young people who are most fled before a pościgiem and refuge in the forest. Cecilia was a beautiful, delicate facial features of a woman zdradzających its aristocratic origin. John, for contrast, showed a severe figure and dark, ogorzałą skin, which suggested that he was a man with gminu. Lovers lived in the forest. Every day for many years worked very hard, even inhuman effort transformed solitary place in a beautiful and rich village, surrounded by fields żyznymi. Adherence to the children, then grandchildren. One day in the sediment appeared King Sigismund August. Feeling the history of John and Cecilia, while the two staruszków, otaczanych widespread reverence and respect, the children and gave them the title of nobility, the name Bohatyrowicze (from bohaterskiej attitude) and the coat of arms Pomian. After the death of John and Cecilia their children have set their grave with a cross and wyrytą date (1549r.) and the words "memento mori", or "remember to death." Cross this is a particular concern on the part of successive generations Bohatyrewiczów, who surrounded him and restore genuine reverence. Tomb of John and Cecilia is easy to deciphering the symbol wyznawanego by the cult
writer pozytywistycznego work. It is through the work of people become strong in spirit, and find the meaning of life and rebuild their eternal relationship with the vital nature. For people working on the writer''s role is mityczni Heroes. The work is not a curse, but a voluntary duty of man against nature and the world to himself.
Tomb of John and Cecilia is also a manifestation of the cult preached by the outbreak Orzeszkowej home. The Polish state can ever arise strong only on condition that it will be strong internally. Such internally strong nation saw a writer in society firmly love to families. Because each family becomes the seed of a future state. What are the individual family, so society as a whole, this will be the entire nation.
Tomb of John and Cecilia is also a belief in solidaryzm class. As people from different social classes are able to love, live together and work together to give rise to fantastic new order, it should be a signal to all Poles, that only a united and forgetting the historical prejudices between classes, can be achieved in view of independence.
Nut has stressed the latter meaning even more markedly, by introducing the song a second grave. This is a grave insurgents from 1863r. In her to lie side by side Jerzy and Andrzej. Total fought for his country, together with her died. Their joint participation in the uprising in January was proof that is the case, for which each loving Motherland Pole, he should forget about their small class conflicts or prejudices. The emergence of January, has become a symbol of the same class solidarity and national unity, node, which link the fate of all Poles in a single, a non-entity.