Contents Introduction

Individual images are characterized by originality, uniqueness. They are usually the product of the writer's imagination. Individual images are most often found in romantics and science fiction writers. Such, for example, Quasimodo in the Notre Dame Cathedral V. Hugo, Demon in the eponymous poem by M. Lermontov, Woland in "The Master and Margarita" M. Bulgakov.

A characteristic image, as opposed to an individual image, is generalizing. It contains the common features of the characters and morals inherent in many people of a certain epoch and its social spheres (the characters of the Karamazov brothers, F. Dostoyevsky, A. Ostrovsky's plays, The Forsyte Saga, J. Galsworthy).