REPRESENTATION OF FEMALE IMAGES IN THE CREATIVE WORKS OF A. CHEKHOV AND B. MAYLIN

Abstract

The article deals with the categories of “artistic image” and “artistic female image”. The authors aim to consider the representation of woman's topic in Russian and Kazakh literature in the late 19th - early 20th centuries, as well as to trace the transformation of the image of “unequal woman” into the image of “free woman” / “Soviet woman”. The artistic works of A. Chekhov help to recreate the cultural atmosphere of the end of the era. His author's view reflects the literary situation on the threshold of the new millennium. The study of peculiarities of the artistic world in the creative works of B. Maylin helps to identify the essential features inherent in the Soviet prose at the initial stage. The works of these authors are characterized by a high degree of detalization, which contributes to the most complete and comprehensive disclosure of the artistic image of the woman. The extensive gallery of literary types of heroes presented in the works of the writers allows to reveal the author's position in their portrayal, the peculiarities of the use of situations and social conditions in which these heroines are forced to exist. The female characters are explored through the analysis of portrait description, the nature of actions, the inner world, its transformation, as well as the analysis of the stylistic features of the description of the psychology of behaviour. In order to carry out the analysis, the authors completed a number of tasks, which include finding and identifying the female characters of works of small genre (short stories, novels), classifying the female characters, their behavior and actions. The above allows the authors to draw conclusions not only about the ways of depicting female characters in the works of writers, but also to note some points of continuity of A. Chekhov's creative originality by B. Maylin. The ability to reveal the inner world of characters, filigree use of artistic details are common features of the works of talented prose writers and playwrights innovators. Studying the female characters and their psychological aspects the authors of the article used methods of comparative, historical and typological, object-analytical, textological and comprehensive analysis, as well as the method of systematization of the data obtained.