sentences:  The determined and clever Vitoria Lipan is a unique female character in the Romanian traditionalist novel despite the known female stereotype.The Hatchet is considered Sadoveanu's greatest work and a creative adaptation of many themes from a famous Romanian piece of folklore, the ballad Mioriţa.The main inspiration source was based on the popular ballad „Miorița” that took the symbol, the epic structure, the conflict between the three villagers and the perseverance that begins in the search of the killed villager.