Lekcja choroby dla zdrowych

The article discusses the situation of the sick, who is excluded from the community of the healthy people. The author describes the way, in which the literature helps to abolish the border between the sick and the healthy. Philoctetes by Sophocles is the subject of the analysis. The study of the main character allows the reader to understand the situation of the sick person, as well as the mechanisms of the exclusion and the inability to forgive.