This article analyses existential character of choice and inner controversies of the heroes in
the neo-romantic drama "Patetychna Sonata" written by Panteleymon Kulish. It also deals
with Nietzchean and feminist discourses that are typical for the modernism. The author refers
to the philosophy of Skovoroda and Sartr stating that Kulish's drama interprets the philosophical
problem of the unity of human cosmos and the unity of individual "self".