Open AccessDRAMATURGIC CREATIVITY OF THE UDMURT WRITER-EDUCATOR I. S. MIKHEEV: PROBLEMATICS OF PLAYS, NATURE OF CONFLICTS
Author(s) -
Светлана Тимофеевна Арекеева
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
ežegodnik finno-ugorskih issledovanij
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2311-0333
pISSN - 2224-9443
DOI - 10.35634/2224-9443-2019-13-3-446-454
Subject(s) - sociology , oppression , punishment (psychology) , theme (computing) , morality , variety (cybernetics) , politics , relation (database) , law , psychology , social psychology , political science , computer science , database , artificial intelligence , operating system
The content of the study is an analysis of the plays by the Udmurt writer-educator I. S. Mikheev in the aspect of identifying their problems, the nature and types of conflicts depicted. Since the conflict is a key category of the dramatic work, the nature of its forming speaks both of the playwright’s skill and the pressing problems that worried him. According to the author of the article, in the works of I. S. Mikheev social, moral, national and socio-political problems are brought up to date, which are revealed through a variety of conflicts. In the plays “En Lushka” (“Do not steal”) and “Viz’tem Onton” (“Stupid Onton”), the playwright depicts the dramatic fate of heroes whose behavior, from the point of view of those around them, contradicts generally accepted morality: in the first case, attention is focused on the role of the “institute” of community, regulating the normative behavior of people in a way of lynching; in another case, on the immutability of God's punishment in relation to a person who has transgressed the permitted line. The playwright devoted his other plays to a rational, culturally enlightened person, free from obsolete habits and prejudices: “Pellyashch’kishch’” (“Fortune-teller”), “Udmurt Doktor” (“Udmurt doctor”); to people who identify themselves with the Udmurt culture and their native language with a wide scope of application: “Udmurt Dyshetyshch” (“Udmurt teacher”); to the independent and possessing equal rights Udmurt people, free from national and social oppression: “Udmurtyoslen revolyutsi poton azh’yn ulemzy” (“Life of the Udmurts before the revolution”). The study of plot conflicts made it possible to establish that the playwright develops a confrontation between the individual and the community, between the individual and the collective; depicts the battle between the old, the obsolete and the advanced, progressive; actualizes the generational gap; reveals social and interethnic contradictions and demarcations.