Проблема самотності у творчості Лесі Українки

Abstract

Human lives in a world that requires from up communicativeness to reach success as success is key to social recognition. One struggles for a place in society, but the toughest struggle goes on with oneself to answer an eternal question: «Who am I?». Paradoxical nature of this struggle lies in the fact that by defining oneself among others a human positions oneself according to how others want to see a human and the real «I» is hidden even from oneself. So, a human «socializes», becomes a member of society that teach one to feel loneliness, underlines importance of belonging to a community and if needed demonstrates alienation. Loneliness and alienation always found its reflection in everyday life, social and humanitarian research, found its special manifestation in art and literature. During research it was established that one of the main topics in writing of Lesia Ukrainka was spirituality of a human based on a humanistic ideal. It is noted, that her activity was and is a foundation for demonstration of humanism which is based on heyday of individuality. It is emphasized that Lesia Ukrainka developed a distinctive and wholesome system which is characterized as a humanistic individualism. It is acknowledged that one of the main issues, raised in her writing, was loneliness. Exactly the loneliness because of which a human is distant from everyday life, from what is considered a norm in activity of a society. Such vision of an issue additionally defines its relevance. Taking into consideration that within conditions of development of Ukrainian society we have a deep crisis of self-identification which causes development of loneliness and alienation and prevents consolidation of Ukrainian community. However, full-scale Russia-Ukraine war that started on 24 February 2022 unified Ukrainian society which showed ability to overcome feelings of loneliness and alienation by consolidation in a single whole for survival as a separate ethnic group.