THE DIDACTIC AND SPIRITUAL FUNCTION OF THE EPIPHANIC MOMENT

This article examines the epiphanic moment as a literary and pedagogical phenomenon, exploring its dual function as both a spiritual awakening and a didactic instrument. Drawing on the traditions of modernist fiction, religious narrative, and contemporary educational theory, the study investigates how moments of sudden insight operate within texts to transform characters and, by extension, readers. The article argues that the epiphany serves not merely as a narrative device but as a carefully constructed site of moral and intellectual instruction, capable of reshaping the reader's perception of selfhood, ethics, and transcendence.