Od przyszłości / ku przyszłości – fantazmaty tytułowej bohaterki powieści "Ania z Zielonego Wzgórza" Lucy Maud Montgomery
FROM THE FUTURE / TOWARDS THE FUTURE – ANNE SHIRLEY’S PHANTASMS

Summary/Abstract: Although the significance of phantasms in Anne Shirley’s life cannot be questioned, the shapes and forms that they take are discussed very rarely. Trying to gather and classify the effects of the protagonist’s imagination, we can look at them in reference to the time problem. Those phantasies vastly concern the future, but – at the same time – they are deeply rooted in Anne’s past. Her state, initially hard and prompting her to escape into the imaginary world, is gradually appearing clearer. However, the girl does not give up the prospects of what will (or what she would like to) happen. In her statements one can see the prediction of the significant social changes related to emancipation, education or religion, which at that time were yet to come. Montgomery’s book, popular ceaselessly for more than one hundred years, shows that “all is still ahead of us”, even people who are unsung, excluded, marginalized... But will those dreams really be fulfilled?

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