THE EVOLUTION OF THE PROTAGONIST/ANTOGONIST DICHOTOMY IN WORKS BY CHARLES DICKENS (BASED ON THE RESEARCH OF THE CONCEPT “AGE”)

Abstract

The main task of the study is to reveal dynamics of changes in personal qualities of characters during the transition from one age to another in works by Charles Dickens. The work solves such tasks as studying the means of nominating the components of the protagonist/antoganist dichotomy and fulfilling their semantic analysis, as well as comparing frequency of verbalization of components of the dichotomy within all ages. The obtained data are used to summarize the overall results and describe the overall picture of the development of the humanistic component from birth to old age. The results of the study may help to contribute to the understanding the hidden meaning of the works by Charles Dickens, as it is conducted using the semantic-cognitive method of cognitive linguistics, in which the analysis of linguistic signs contributes to the penetration into the consciousness of the author of the text.