Among all types of works with the text of the play "Thunderstorm"(Ostrovsky) essay is particularly difficult. This is probably due to the fact that schoolchildren do not fully understand the peculiarities of Katerina’s character, the peculiarity of the time in which she lived.
Let's try to sort out the question together and, relying on the text, interpret the image as the author wanted to show it.
A.N. Ostrovsky. "Thunderstorm". Characteristic Katerina
The very beginning of the nineteenth century.The first acquaintance with Katerina helps to understand the difficult situation in which she lives. A limp husband who is afraid of his mother, a Kabaniha lonely woman who loves to humiliate people, is strangling and oppressing Katerina. She feels her loneliness, her helplessness, but with great love remembers the parental home.
Characteristic Katerina ("Thunderstorm") beginspicture of urban mores, and continues with her memories of the house where she was loved and free, where she felt like a bird. But was everything all right? After all, she was married by the decision of the family, and the parents could not know how weak her husband was, how cruel her mother-in-law.
However, the girl, even in the sweltering atmosphere of housebuildingmanaged to keep the ability to love. He falls in love with the nephew of the merchant Wild. But the character of Katerina is so strong, and she herself is so pure that she is even afraid to think about betraying her husband.
Characteristic Katerina ("Thunderstorm") bright spotstands out against other heroes. Weak, weak-willed, pleased that Tikhon escapes from his mother's control, lying to the will of Varvara by the will of circumstances - each of them in his own way struggles with intolerable and inhuman customs.
And only Katerina fights.
First with you. She does not want to hear at first about a date with Boris. Trying to "observe himself", begs Tikhon to take her with him. Then she rebel against inhuman society.
Характеристика Катерины («Гроза») построена на that the girl is opposed to all the characters. She doesn’t secretly run around on a spree, as the cunning Barbara does, she is not afraid of Kabanihi, as her son does.
Catherine's character strength is not that shefell in love, but in the fact that she dared to do it. And in that, having failed to keep her purity before God, she dared to accept death in defiance of human and divine laws.
Characteristic Katerina ("Thunderstorm") was createdOstrovsky is not a description of the features of her nature, and the actions that the girl committed. Pure and honest, but infinitely lonely and infinitely loving Boris, she wanted the whole Kalinovsky society to confess her love. He knew that she could wait for her, but he was not afraid of either the rumor of the people or the bullying that would necessarily follow her confession.
But the heroine’s tragedy is that no one elsedoes not turn out to be such a strong character. Boris throws her, preferring the ephemeral legacy. Barbara does not understand why she admitted: she would walk to herself slowly. The husband can only sob over the corpse, saying "happy you, Kate."
The image of Katerina, created by Ostrovsky, is an excellent example of an awakening personality who is trying to break out of the sticky networks of the patriarchal way of life.
