TRANSITIVITY, NARRATIVE, IDENTITY

The connection of the carnival activity with the states of transition offers the neophyte participant an opportunity to experience the act of death and rebirth in a new capacity, acquiring a new identity and taking his or her place in society. Similar experiences are experienced by the believer who has embarked on the path of movement towards truth, finding him or herself through contact with the images of the iconostasis and instantaneous transfer into the realm of truth, in union with God. The barrier on the way of the hero of works of art, literature, and cinema is the boundaries of the worlds that determine the dynamics of the narrative and the process of internal transformation. The change of the subject's state through various forms of crossing the boundaries of the worlds according to a single scenario: removal, staying in an intermediate state and return determine the change of the qualitative state of the initiate's psyche; after the ceremony he appears capable of such complex intellectual procedures as the correct production of metaphors. Ritual forms of initiation proved to be not only the core of the textual organization of the magic tale, but also of such later forms of art creation as the epic and the European novel itself. Through the three-act structure of the monomyth, the literary form has passed to the scripts of the feature film, keeping with it the idea of initiation, which is the basis of the character's arch.