СТРАХ И ЊЕГОВА ДРУГА СТРАНА – АНАЛИЗА СТРАХА У ПРИЧИ „ВИЈ“ НИКОЛАЈА ГОГОЉА И ПРИЧИ „ДУХ ИЗ КАНТЕРВИЛА“ ОСКАРА ВАЈЛДА
FEAR AND ITS COUNTERPART – FEAR MOTIF IN STORIES „VIY“ BY NIKOLAI GOGOL AND „THE CANTERVILLE GHOST“ BY OSCAR WILDE

Summary/Abstract: The intention in writing this paper was to present the double role of fear in the history of literature. As an example, we used stories of two authors who had represented fear motif in a completely opposite way. On one hand, fear is represented as recreated unconscious, the being behind the being, the mask behind the face. Striving to create the relation of contrast, the author of this work chose to present the counterpart: fear as a device of fun, as a device used to delete negative energy. Nikolai Gogol in „Viy“ summons the feelings of yore, fear and panic, that have stemmed from the meeting with the energy from beyond, opposing the calmness and idyll of a hamlet mansion and the serenity of a churc to basic human desires. As a counterpart, Oscar Wilde in his short story „The Canterville Ghost“ presents fear as something laughable, and something that should be left to linger in its sphere of beyond, without mixing it with the stream of life.

• Details
• Contents