THE ROLE OF ARCHETYPE IN SETTING THE ARTISTIC SPACE IN THE STORY BY H. WELLS “THE COUNTRY OF THE BLIND”

Abstract

The article deals with the notion of archetypes viewed as inherited mental images representing the content of the collective unconscious, and is dedicated to the analysis of the story by H. Wells “The Country of the Blind”. By means of the interpretation analysis as well as dictionary definition componential analysis of the lexicon of the text, the key lexical units of the literary work. The researchers reveal the principal spacious archetypes functioning in the text under analysis as symbols employed by the author to cipher the message, due to be interpreted by the reader. The analysis results in displaying such archetypes as that of mountain, wall, circle, and roof, which in their entirety create an image of the artistic space of the story and appear as symbols of separateness, isolation and opposition of the two artistic worlds depicted in this piece of work – the world of the seeing hero and the world of the blind.