Didactic prose is a specific type of narrative creation, a very important part of Lithuanian writings of the XIX century. The intention of such literature is to offer countrymen a possibility to enlighten one, to broaden their knowledge of the world, to deepen the consciousness of moral decisions. Apart from the aim of enlightenment this literature is often inclined to educate or moralize the addressee, to give him appropriate or inappropriate examples (exempla) that are good or wrong to follow. To prove didactic truths writers often set a “live example” in the centre of the writing – an example of a person (or people’s community); in the writing it is a character, or personage (literary portrait). The term “literary portrait” is described the most directly by the Russian literature researcher V.S.Barachovas. According to him the portrait is firstly necessary to mark the image of the literary personage; that is the way of the “literary portrait” appearance. The writer shows the literary portrait in a certain environment – in the plot of the writing where the described hero as if “lives”. Here his individuality, mindset, character is revealed while talking, thinking, also through behavior, various actions. According to Barachovas in the creative activity (literature creation), as well as in the biography, the individual living of the character is revealed showing him in diverse manners (see pg. 6-7). This master’s paper analyses the ways in which the mentioned literary... [to full text]