ARTISTIC AND AESTHETIC EXPRESSION OF NATIONAL RESILIENCE IN UKRAINIAN FOLK DUMAS

Abstract

The article examines the artistic and aesthetic image and expression of the national resilience of the Ukrainian people based on the material of the dumas epic. Attention is focused on the symbolism of national opinions as a concept that reflects the level of national consciousness and resilience of Ukrainians. Symbolism, as an ethnogenetic phenomenon, in folklore works helps to understand the way of thinking of our ancestors, their moral, spiritual, ethical and aesthetic ideals. It is emphasized that the verbal symbolism of the people is an important factor in creating the national and cultural picture of the world of Ukrainians. Even individual symbols, characteristic of the artistic and creative understanding of reality, are conditioned by the peculiarities of the national worldview and worldview. The images of the Steppe, the Path, and the House are most distinctly presented in the artistic and figurative system of thoughts, which deepen the ideological content of the work and serve to develop a number of motives and the artistic and aesthetic expression of the national stability of the epic heroes of Ukrainian folk dumas. Their aesthetic sacralization is determined precisely by the heroic nature of the attitude of Ukrainians to the world around them. This issue has not yet been adequately explored in Ukrainian public opinion. Therefore, on the material of the dumas of the heroic cycle «Cossack Holota», «Ivan Konovchenko» and «Sirchikha and Sirchenko», we will try to find out the content of the artistic symbol, which expresses the idea of resistance and struggle, national resilience in general. The article also analyzes the «mine – stranger» disposition, which has such cultural projections as contact, common ideas, common reactions, and a complex of national hatred. It is through them that we will trace the development of such qualities of the national character as honor, nobility, courage, wisdom, freedom, will, sense of family, attitude to the land, which are the basis of establishing the national resilience of the Ukrainian people.