For the Issue of the Modality Principle and the Interpretation of the Structural Type of the Character

Abstract

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The structure and modality of specific characters as well as of the work in general is the outcome of the author’s ideology and the philosophy of life and the failure to take this factor into account during the identification of the author’s idea or the interpretation of the structural types of the characters results in a number of misconceptions and wrong conclusions. The problem of interpretation often becomes the subject of hot discussions. The article examines the issue by reference to the the analysis of the structural type of Aghaza, a specific character from Vazha-Pshavela’s “Stumar-Maspindzeli” (“Host and Guest”). The critics, as well as the readers have differing attitude towards Aghaza’s action (mourning of the guest who turns out to be the sworn enemy).

Some think that Aghaza mourns her husband’s sworn brother warrior who died in a foreign land and do not regard her behavior deplorable; on the contrary, they think her action is praiseworthy and laudable. In the view of others Aghaza fell in love with the guest, and cries because of having lost the beloved one, her will being weak and her action -- amoral, since it implies conscious infidelity to her husband and the devotion to the stranger. The article reviews the basic viewpoints around this character prevalent in scientific literature and presents specific conclusions. The structural type of cherecter expresses the main idea of author. If idea and structure of character doesn’t consent eachother, then we have some problem about interpretation, or the author had made some mistakes about character.

I think, the conclusion is very cleaver.

Published in the journal Sjani, vol. 10 (2009), pp. 112–122. Open the paper