IMMOBILITY AS ONE OF KEY IMAGES IN FICTION BY S. TOWNSEND

The article touches upon the ways S. Townsend chose for portraying one the key images in the history of both English and Russian literature – the image of immobility. This image helps the author to suggest the readers different methods of fighting with depression by putting the protagonists into the same physical and psychological conditions – they are both in their beds and are suffering from depression. But the differences lie in the sources of this de- structive emotion (either enforced by the outer impetuses or the fictional character him/herself), in the keeping/not keeping touch with the environs and, finally, in the desire/ non-desire to get back to normal, full of mobility life