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| Open Access | THE ARTISTIC CHARACTERISTICS OF THE IMAGES OF FATHER AND CHILD IN CORMAC McCARTHY’S “THE ROAD”
Begmatova Sokhiba Mustafoyevna , Uzbekistan State World Languages University Department of Practical Sciences of English Language No. 2 Senior Lecturer (PhD)Abstract
This article analyzes American writer Cormac McCarthy’s novel “The Road”, highlighting the images of father and son and their spiritual and artistic relationship. In the work, values such as fatherhood, love, morality, and humanity are given new philosophical meaning against the backdrop of the final scene of humanity's destruction. The study reveals the author’s moral, existential, and religious ideas underlying the images of father and son.
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Cormac McCarthy, novel “The Road”, father and son, existentialism, morality, hope, dystopia.
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