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Ulitina Natalia Mikhailovna
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Ural Federal University
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Articles count: 1
The article explores the notion of fear as an existential
concept in M. Yu. Lermontov’s literary oeuvre. In
many of the poet’s works, the characters, finding
themselves in difficult limit situations, experience a
wide range of emotions which Lermontov describe in
detail using self-reflective approach. In analyzing the
theme of fear featuring in Lermontov’s works as a
socio-cultural concept, the author of the auricle
describes each emotional state separately: fear of
loneliness, fear of betrayal, a whole range of various
strong emotions emerging in relation to fright and to
the experience of horror. But the governing emotion in
existential fear is a fear of Nothingness as an inevitable
fate of every finite human self. The article describes a
variety of ways to overcome fear and complex internal
conflicts offered by Lermontov