FUNCTIONAL PORTRAIT OF IVAN KARAMAZOV
The aim of the study is to identify a number of artistic functions that characterize the portrait of Ivan Karamazov and allow revealing the originality of F.M. Dostoevsky's creative method. The portrait of Ivan Karamazov is considered from the standpoint of formal and structural-descriptive approaches. When creating the image of Ivan Karamazov, Dostoevsky, instead of the traditional realistic description of appearance, uses the technique of silence, building an atmosphere of “mystery” around the hero. As a result of the study, it was revealed that Ivan Karamazov is endowed with a dynamic portrait that correlates with his internal state of semantic incompleteness. The image of the hero has a great plastic expressiveness and is revealed through a system of situational characteristics, gestures, facial expressions, psychological reactions. The portrait of Ivan Karamazov represents a complex set of themes and motives, such as ambivalence, demonism, childishness, morbidity, curvature, alienation, dialectic of exclusivity and ordinariness.