COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE IMAGE OF THE HERO IN WORLD AND RUSSIAN LITERATURE (USING THE TRAGEDY "HAMLET" AND THE NOVEL "A HERO OF OUR TIME" AS AN EXAMPLE)

This article examines the artistic interpretation of personality in world and Russian literature using William Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet and Mikhail Lermontov's novel A Hero of Our Time as examples. The characteristics of the characters of Hamlet and Pechorin, their internal conflicts, the philosophical underpinnings of their behavior, and the artistic means of depicting them are analyzed. Similarities and differences between the "superfluous man" and the reflective hero are identified. A conclusion is drawn about the continuity of artistic traditions and the universality of the concept of personality.