Pshuchological Motivations of Characters in Vazha Pshavela’s “Host and guest”: Jokhola Cover Image

პერსონაჟთა ქცევის ფსიქოლოგიური მოტივაციები ვაჟა ფშაველას „სტუმარ – ასპინძელში“: ჯოყოლა
Pshuchological Motivations of Characters in Vazha Pshavela’s “Host and guest”: Jokhola

Author(s): Manana Kvachantiradze
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Georgian literature
Published by: ლიტერატურის ინსტიტუტის გამომცემლობა
Keywords: Jokhola; motivation; choice; revenge;

Summary/Abstract: The dynamic of circumstances and situation described by Vazha Pshavela in introduction of his poem ,,Host and guest’’ is not common: Both, the guest and the host ,,owe blood’’ to each other. Paying of this debt is the clue to whole future dramatism. It is traditional topmost which will be eventually denied by Kist Jokhola as inevitable and indispensable reason for revenge. For, ,,right’’ conduct that manifests itself in deep sympathy between humans indispensable reason claimed by community could not be sufficient motivation for enmity’’. Vazha Pshavela prepares reader’s evaluating position for Jokhola’s choice and proposes a chain of conducts and decisions of characters as well as their physiological motivations that should finally justify Jokhola’s choice, so unusual and complex at the first sight. This choice that should find its way between personal perception of manly dignity and Kist common(community’s) view of the same concept.

  • Issue Year: 2021
  • Issue No: 22
  • Page Range: 101-112
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Georgian