Gender figures in fiction communication

Abstract

Introduction. Practical study of magazines aimed to identify their place in the scientific communication system requires the discovery of typological traits and features and to model and predict new publications. Such analysis includes thematically oriented classification, identifying typological features of magazines and their kinds, logical classification of models, typological modeling. Relevance and aim. The aim of the research is to identify female and male behaviour models, basing on a Ukrainian folk tale «Pro cholovika, shcho mav zlu zhinku»/«About a man who had an evil wife» as a component of gender figures in fiction communication. The relevance of the research is that developing studying of gender component of Ukrainian folk tales, the article emphasises the significance of gender figures in fiction communication. Methodology. To implement the work, we used the following methods: hermeneutic (for understanding the sense of the folk tale), semantic-stylistic (for revealing correlation of linguistic means which expressively render the intellectual, emotional, or esthetic sense of the feature work with informational sense), method of psychoanalysis. Results. At first sight, we can regard a Ukrainian folk tale «About a man who had an evil wife» depicting the moral value of a woman who was not satisfied with the welfare and her husband’s work and punished for that. If to look at it from a gender point of view, according to her inner world perception and outer attitude to one another, the woman belongs to a masculine type because she rules, and the man belongs to the feminine type because he acts upon instructions. Generally, gender identification of the tale’s characters is successful, as they take themselves as a man and a woman. At the same time, they share certain gender role attitudes of their parents, which we can regard as following: a man is weak and must obey a woman; a woman is strong and must control a man. Conclusions. In the process of the research, we found out that a folk tale «About a man who had an evil wife» demonstrates the interaction of a masculine woman and a feminine man. Shaping of gender identity of the characters results from the wrong gender model, which the man and the woman observed in their childhood and further transferred in their adult life: on both personal gender identity and interaction with the opposite sex.