La semántica de la imagen de “la virgen celestial” en la novela “Doctor Zhivago” de B. L. Pasternak

Abstract

The paper is devoted to the female archetypes that are immediately connected with the basic concepts of the Silver Age. The semantics of turning, which was historically significant for a boundary of the XIX-XX-th centuries and played a key role in the hero’s destiny, in Pasternak’s novel «Doctor Zhivago» reveals through a chain of various events and the system of images. These images have mythological character and finally go back to the archetype of White Lady. From this point of view the symbolism of the myth becomes an artistic way of expression of the central ideas in the novel.