The article presents the linguistic creation of Stanisław Wokulski’s feeling (the main character of “The Doll”) towords Izabela Łęcka. Bolesław Prus realizes this task mainly through Wokulski’s utterances and the descriptions of his thoughts as well as the narrator’s and other characters’ comments. There are two ways of presenting the creation of Stanisław’s feelings – one of them idealises love and woman, the other, realistic, depicts Wokulski’s commensensical deliberations on love. The idealization of love is expressed due to the stylistic devices typical of neoclassical, sentimental and romantic poetry such as metaphors, comparisons, hyperboles and metonymies. There appears a significant number of abstract nouns and verbal forms as well as numerous constructions with the lexeme happiness. The commonsensical deliberations are based on negatively marked metaphors, verbal forms, abstract nouns and terms. In a masterly fashion Bolesław Prus utilizes the richness of linguistic devices was to create a realistic view of the complexity at the main character’s feelings towords the woman of a different social class.
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