Open AccessTHE IMAGE OF A WITCH: G. F. KVITKA-OSNOVYANENKO'S LITERARY VERSION
Author(s) -
Tetiana Danyliuk-Tereshchuk
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
prikarpatsʹkij vìsnik ntš. slovo
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2304-7402
DOI - 10.31471/2304-7402-2019-2(54)-244-255
Subject(s) - witch , folklore , character (mathematics) , consciousness , irrational number , literature , power (physics) , focus (optics) , art , aesthetics , psychoanalysis , philosophy , psychology , epistemology , ecology , physics , geometry , mathematics , quantum mechanics , optics , biology
The article reveals the functional peculiarities of the image of a witch in the folklore text and in the text created by an author. In the focus of the analysis is the story “Konotopska Witch” by G. F. Kvitka-Osnovianenko. For the first time in the national literature the writer has traced the way and the means of how popular beliefs or prejudices form the social consciousness. The witch's “might” of the main character gives the author an oportunity to deduce the way to the archetypal content of the image. This demonological character embodies the dark side of the female nature and exposes the attitude of a man to a woman, his fear of her power. The irrational power of the witch frightens and determines the incomprehensibility of the Otherness.