DOI: https://doi.org/10.36719/2706-6185/49/17-21
Vusala Gaziyeva
Baku Slavic University
PhD in Philology
https://orcid.org/0009-0002-0484-676X
vusalagaziyeva73@gmail.ru
The Problem of Personality in the Literary Process
Abstract
The article explores the concept of personality through the philosophical, aesthetic, and poetic dimensions within a historical development context. The category of personality emerged only at certain stages and was first clearly articulated during the Renaissance. In antiquity and the Middle Ages humans were perceived as parts of cosmic and divine forces with limited notions of personality and free will. During the Renaissance, however, humans began to perceive themselves as creative and autonomous beings, bringing issues of freedom and will to the forefront of philosophical and literary discourse. Great figures such as Nizami Ganjavi, Imadaddin Nasimi, and William Shakespeare deeply examined human free will and responsibility. From the Renaissance themes sovereignty of the personality the human relationship with God and accountability for one’s fate became central in literary and philosophical thought. The Baroque and classicism periods reconsidered human nature and its limits, while romanticism proclaimed the full freedom and independence of personality. In the Romantic era, personality was seen as liberated from divine and natural forces, becoming the center and primary cause of its own existence. The article demonstrates that the issues of personality and free will have continuously evolved in human thought, manifesting differently across cultures and historical periods.
Keywords: literature, Renaissance, romanticism, personality, free will