Abstract
The article discusses the means of creating images and argumentation lines used to achieve a multidimensional representation of the concept of solidarity in the 2012 drama High Resolution by Ukrainian playwright Dmytro Ternovyi. The story of inhabitants of a certain Ukrainian city and their experiences during anti-regime protests coinciding with the hunt for immigrants organized by the authorities is interspersed with fantastic and grotesque scenes featuring animate objects, which allowed the author to create a range of social worlds haunted by traumas and fears. By definition, a dystopian reality is a space where social relationships are disturbed, which may cause the society to atomize, but it can also consolidate it. Ternovyi shows both options, indicating that it is possible to have an ambivalent point of view on solidarity. He creates alternative variants of development of such situations. The analysis of those visions shows that it is possible to perceive the discussed drama as a specific study of solidarity – an anatomy of its triumphs and failures. Furthermore, setting the drama in the context of the recent events in Ukraine made it possible to correlate solidarity and collective identity and show current trends in thinking about the Ukrainian identity.
Highlights
The article discusses the means of creating images and argumentation lines used to achieve a multidimensional representation of the concept of solidarity in the 2012 drama High Resolution by Ukrainian playwright Dmytro Ternovyi
Yuval Noah Harari once wrote that “every man-made order is packed with internal contradictions”
While the ideas of solidarity of all workers or mutual loyalty between members of national communities initially brought a positive force of emancipation, with the lapse of time they laid the foundations for Messianic movements, which, as Leonidas Donskis (2016: 41) puts it, were hypnotizing with faith in the promise of collective salvation
Summary
The article discusses the means of creating images and argumentation lines used to achieve a multidimensional representation of the concept of solidarity in the 2012 drama High Resolution by Ukrainian playwright Dmytro Ternovyi. I will attempt to establish the situations in which the concept of solidarity as an agent that binds fragmented societies will imply tensions between the ideals of freedom and fraternity.
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