TRAGIC CONFLICT IN THE STORY OF L. BORODIN “FOR THE SAKE OF CHILDREN”

Abstract

The article discusses the story of L. Borodin “For the sake of children” in terms of the artistic embodiment of the category of tragic. The purpose of the study is to identify the essence of the tragic conflict in this work, as well as to analyze the author’s position. The writer builds the story on both external and internal conflicts. The first is a confrontation between two characters, the second is a clash between feeling and duty in the soul of one of them. Not once during the story, this character finds himself in a tragic situation of choice between love to family and moral duty. There is no right way out of this situation, so the hero is doomed to suffering. The tragic guilt of the hero determines the ambivalence of the author’s position: on the one hand, this is understanding and sympathy, on the other – the statement of the inevitability of retaliation.