Kategorie wolności i moralności w twórczości Gabrieli Zapolskiej i Łesi Ukrainki

Abstract

The article comprehensively examines the creative output of two outstanding authors of the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries – Gabriela Zapolska and Lesia Ukrainka – through the prism of the axiological categories of freedom and morality. The research was conducted on the level of the dramatic works of both writers and their prose, and in the case of Lesia Ukrainka – also poetry. It was found that the writers implemented the mentioned moral and ethical categories in a different way, as they belonged to different ideological and cultural formations – Zapolska was a supporter of a positivist system of values, while a Ukrainka was a bright representative and founder of Ukrainian neo-romanticism. The common ideological field for both writers was social issues. Despite a clear difference in the creation of images, the artists’ motives have common points, and they remain equally representative for the literature of their era.