Many poets and writers dedicated their lines to women, the beautiful half of humanity. In Russian literature, the image of a woman was drawn with great warmth, her best features were sung: fidelity, sincerity, beauty, intelligence, nobility, tenderness and selfless love.
Larisa is extremely interesting and attractive character in the play by A.N. Ostrovsky "Dowry".
The meaning of the life of the main character is love. Larisa is a beautiful, smart, gentle, multi-talented girl with a pure soul. She lives in a provincial town, in a family without sufficient means of subsistence. But the girl does not pursue a successful game, she waits and hopes that by true love will come.
Harita Ignatievna is trying to arrange the fate of her daughter, so she is busy looking for the best groom, but the main condition is money. The girl’s mother is not interested in the education and decency of the groom, if only it would be more profitable to marry her daughter.
Arranging in the house frequent appointments with the money of Knurov and Vozhevatov. The audience is very diverse: rich merchants and the modest Karandyshev, officials and the brilliant nobleman Sergei Sergeyevich Paratov. Larisa fell in love with Sergey Sergeyevich with all her heart. He is handsome, charming, smart, courteous and prudent. But the girl does not notice his shortcomings forgives him any sin, dooms herself to shame for his pleasure and is ready to follow him to the ends of the world.
Having squandered his fortune, Paratov is forced to marry a rich bride. Larisa is deceived, disgraced and abandoned. Desperate, she is ready to marry Karandyshev, hoping to find peace with him. Childhood friend Vasya Vozhevatov will play her in toss with an elderly and serious merchant Knurov. , Larisa is not interested in any of them. For them, she is a “thing”, dear and beautiful. Having lost everything, the girl is ready to become a “thing”. Karandyshev’s shot brings her deliverance: she dies free, without becoming a draw. deliverance from torment: "I was looking for love and did not find it. They looked at me and look like fun. No one has ever tried to look into my soul, I have not seen sympathy from anyone, I have not heard a warm, heartfelt word"
Cunning and lies were alien to sincere and proud Larisa, she is a woman with a "hot heart". Such people are not capable of compromise. They can either win or die. Beauty and youth are ruined, but Larisa dies free.
The drama of A. N. Ostrovsky "Dowry" is a wonderful play late period the creativity of the writer. It was conceived in 1874, completed in 1878 and staged in Moscow and St. Petersburg the same year. M. Ermolova, M. Savina, and later V. Komissarzhevskaya - best actors capital theaters - they took on the role of Larisa Ogudalova. What captivated them so this wonderful heroine?
Larisa Ogudalova is distinguished by her truthfulness, sincerity, directness of character, thus reminiscent of Katerina from Thunderstorm. According to Vozhevaty, there is no "cunning" in Larisa Dmitrievna. With the heroine of "Thunderstorm" brings her high poetry. Larisa is attracted by the trans-Volga distance, the forests across the river, the beauty itself is beckoning - the Volga with its spaciousness. "Earthly, this worldly is not" - notes Knurov. And in fact: it is all as if raised above the dirt of reality, above the vulgarity and baseness of life. In the depths of her soul, like a bird, which she herself looks like, beats a dream of a beautiful and noble, honest and quiet life, Translated from Greek, Larisa means "seagull", and this is no coincidence.
Shouldn't you prefer your mother's lifestyle? Harita Ignatievna, left a widow with three daughters, is constantly cunning and cunning, flattering and fawning, begging from the rich and accepting their handouts. She set up a real noisy "gypsy camp" in her house to create the appearance of beauty and brilliance of life. And all this in order to trade as living goods under the cover of this tinsel. She had already ruined two daughters, now it was the turn of the third to trade. But Larisa cannot accept this way of life of her mother, it is alien to her. The mother tells her daughter to smile, but she wants to cry. And she asks her fiancé to tear her out of this "bazaar" surrounding her, where there are a lot of "all sorts of rabble", to take her away, beyond the Volga.
However, Larisa is a dowry, a poor, penniless bride. She has to put up with it. In addition, she herself managed to catch a craving for external brilliance. Larisa is devoid of integrity of character, her mental life pretty controversial. She not only does not want to see the vulgarity and cynicism of the people around her, but - for quite a long time - she cannot see. All this distinguishes her from Katerina. Abandoning her mother's lifestyle, she exists among vulgar admirers.
Larisa Ogudalova had to experience the indifference and cruelty of those around her, to endure love drama, and as a result, she dies, just like the heroine of "Thunderstorm". But with a seeming similarity, Larisa Ogudalova is the owner of a completely different character than Katerina Kabanova. The girl received an excellent education, she is smart, sophisticated, educated, dreams of beautiful love, but initially her life is very different. She is a dowry. Larisa's mother is very mercenary. She trades in the beauty and youth of her daughters.
First, an old man with gout appeared in the house. Larisa clearly does not want this unequal marriage, but "it was necessary to be amiable: mother orders." Then the wealthy manager of some prince, always drunk, would "run in". Larisa is not up to him, but in the house they accept him: "her position is unenviable." Then a certain cashier "appeared" who bombarded Kharita Ignatievna with money. This one repulsed everyone, but did not show off for long. Circumstances helped the bride here: in their house he was arrested with a scandal.
Larisa Ogudalova falls in love with the "brilliant gentleman" Sergei Sergeevich Paratov. She sincerely considers him the ideal of a man. The master has a fortune, he fully corresponds to the idea of a noble and an educated person. Its inner essence is revealed later. Larisa is young and inexperienced, so she falls into Paratov's trap and destroys herself. She does not have a strong character and becomes a toy in the hands of others. It comes to the fact that the girl is played in a toss. People around her consider her a thing, expensive and beautiful fun, and her sublime soul, beauty and talent are not important. Karandyshev says to Larisa: "They do not look at you as a woman, as a person ... they look at you as a thing."
She herself agrees with this: "Thing ... yes, a thing! They are right, I am a thing, I am not a person ...".
Larisa has an ardent heart, she is sincere and emotional. She generously gives her love, but what does she get in return? For her loved one, Larisa is another entertainment, fun. Out of desperation, she even agrees to accept Knurov's conditions.
Death is a kind of salvation for Larisa, spiritual salvation, of course. Such a tragic ending saves her from the difficult choice that she is trying to make, saves her from moral death and falling into the abyss called depravity.
The only way out that Larisa finds is to leave this world. Larisa at first wanted to commit suicide herself. She went to the cliff and looked down, but unlike Katerina, she did not have the determination and strength to accomplish her plan. Nevertheless, the death of Larisa is a foregone conclusion and prepared by the whole play. Suddenly a shot is heard from the pier (this is what Larisa is frightened of). Then the ax in the hands of Karandyshev is mentioned. He calls certain death falling off a cliff. Larisa talks about Paratov's "indifferent shot" at the coin she was holding. She herself thinks that here on any knot "you can hang yourself", but on the Volga "it's easy to drown yourself everywhere." Robinson anticipates a possible murder. Finally, Larisa dreams: "What if someone killed me now?"
The death of the heroine becomes inevitable, and it comes. In an insane fit of the owner, doing a great good deed for her, Karandyshev kills her. This is the last and involuntary choice of the dowry. Thus ends the tragedy of the main character of Ostrovsky's play.
"Dowry" is a drama about the catastrophe of the individual in an inhuman world. This is a work about the tragedy of an ordinary Russian woman, a dowry with a warm loving heart.
Ostrovsky's drama "Dowry" shows readers the tragedy of Larisa Ogudalova, who has become a weak-willed toy in the hands of others. Larisa Ogudalova, like Katerina Kabanova, the protagonist of another Ostrovsky drama, also becomes a victim. However, Larisa initially has other qualities than Katerina, who grew up in a patriarchal environment. The drama "Dowry" was written in 1879. At this time, capitalist relations had already been established in Russia. This means that patriarchal foundations are gradually losing their relevance.
Larisa Ogudalova received a good education. She is European-style refined. Larisa dreams of love. The girl has a warm heart. She cannot allow her life to be connected with an unloved person. But Larisa's desire for love coincides with her dream and beautiful life. Larisa is poor, but in order to become happy, she also needs wealth.
Larisa is surrounded by petty, ignoble people. Brilliant master Paratov perceives Larisa only as a beautiful thing. This imposing narcissist seems to the girl the embodiment of the ideal. But in fact, Paratov does not have either nobility or kindness. He is selfish, petty, cruel, prudent.
However, Karandyshev, who is not initially perceived as a worthy couple for Larisa, differs little from him. Larisa is young and inexperienced. She does not have strong character to deal with the prevailing circumstances. She seems to be playing by someone else's rules, becoming a toy in someone else's hands. Even Larisa's mother perceives her daughter only as a commodity. She is ready to sacrifice the beauty, youth of Larisa, as this makes it possible to obtain material benefits, to strengthen social status Ogudalov.
Everyone who surrounds Larisa thinks of her only as a thing, an object of entertainment. It is no coincidence that they play it in a toss. All best qualities Larisa, her soul, feelings are of no interest to anyone. People only think about her external beauty. That's what makes it such an attractive toy.
Karandyshev tells Larisa: "They do not look at you as a woman, as a person ... they look at you as a thing." Ogudalova herself agrees with this: “Thing ... yes, thing! They are right, I am a thing, I am not a man...”. In my opinion, the main tragedy girls lies precisely in the fact that Larisa has a warm heart. If she had been cold-blooded, prudent, cunning, Larisa, with her external data and the ability to present herself, would have managed to get along quite well in life. However, the ardor, emotionality, openness of the heroine makes her suffer more from the role that is assigned to her. Love, Larisa's feelings are of no interest to anyone, she is needed solely for entertainment. The girl at the end of the drama is crushed, destroyed. This leads to the fact that the desperate Larisa even agrees to accept Knurov's conditions.
The tragic ending of "Dowry" is a salvation for the heroine, deliverance from humiliation. Now she belongs to no one. Death seems to be a boon for Larisa. After all, humiliated, unhappy, she sees no point in later life. The act of Sergei Sergeevich Paratov makes the girl realize that terrible fact that the end of her life would inevitably be tragic. Yes, now someone other than Sergei Paratov still needs her, but years will pass, youth will fade and Larisa will simply be thrown out by one of the rich landlords, as a worn out and unnecessary thing.
The drama "Dowry" again makes us think about the place of a woman in the world. If in the play "Thunderstorm" Katerina became a victim of the Domostroy way of life, then Larisa is a victim of new, capitalist relations. It is noteworthy that the rules by which society lives are changing. And the woman still remains a powerless creature. Katerina Kabanova finds the strength to protest. After all, her suicide is a clear protest against the reality4 in which the heroine had to live. Larisa lacks the courage to even attempt to protest. She remains a toy in the hands of circumstances to the last. Perhaps the reason for this is the upbringing that Larisa Ogudalova received. If we turn again to the image of Katerina from The Thunderstorm, we can recall that this girl grew up in an atmosphere parental love and guardianship. Therefore, she very sharply perceived her current disenfranchised position. As for the heroine of the drama "Dowry", here, apparently, Larisa was initially prepared by her mother for the role of a commodity, a toy. Hence the passivity of the girl, the lack of desire to fight, to defend her rights.
The fate of Larisa is regrettable. But at the same time, you involuntarily wonder why the heroine, who has an ardent heart, passionately desiring to love, finds no other way out for her passions. After all, she, having received a Europeanized upbringing, could guess that her lover sees in her only entertainment. However, Larisa was brought up in such an atmosphere that the opportunity to profitably sell herself, her beauty and talent seemed quite acceptable. It is no coincidence that Larisa's mother is depicted as very mercenary. It is sad that from the whole environment of Larisa there is no one who would not be so indifferent and cruel to the fate of a young girl.
Larisa Ogudalova - main character A. N. Ostrovsky's play "Dowry", which was first published in " Domestic notes» in 1879. In the dramaturgy of Ostrovsky in the 1970s and 1980s, the theme of the power of money, property, wealth in the era of the "triumph of the bourgeoisie" becomes the main theme. The playwright continues to look for forces in Russian life that could withstand the elements of unbridled predation, humiliation human dignity, cold calculation and selfishness. The writer's anxiety is especially felt for the fate of a person "with a warm heart", who, even at this prudent time, continues to live with feeling, looking for love, understanding, happiness. Such is the heroine of the play "Dowry".
Larisa has everything - intelligence, talent, beauty, sensitivity. She is pure in heart and selfless. She reaches out to people, trusts them, hopes for understanding and a reciprocal feeling. But Larisa is a dowry, and this predetermines her tragic fate.
Larisa's mother seeks to marry off her daughter more profitably, she tries to teach Larisa to live by the rules dictated by time, forcing her daughter to lie, to be nice to richer young people. But the heroine of the play cannot act according to calculation. She gives her heart to Sergey Sergeevich Paratov, handsome, smart and strong. But Paratov is a man of his time, living by the principle: "There is a price for every product." Larisa is also a commodity for him. And he's not ready to pay his material well-being for love and happiness. Paratov marries a rich bride, or rather, in gold mines, which are given to her as a dowry.
Not finding love, Larisa tries to live "like everyone else." She decides to marry the poor Official Yuli Kapitonovich Karandyshev. In her chosen one, Larisa is looking for features worthy of respect: “I should at least respect my husband,” she says. But it is difficult to respect Karandyshev. In his vain attempts to compare with Knurov and Vozhevatov, he looks ridiculous and pathetic. He does not hear Larisa's plea to leave for the village, where she hopes to find at least peace of mind. It is more important for Julius Kapitonovich to “in turn laugh” at those whose humiliations he endured for three years. He is not up to the torment of Larisa!
After breaking up with Karandyshev, after deceiving Paratov, Larisa is looking for simple human sympathy, turning to her childhood friend Vozhevatov: “Well, at least cry with me,” she asks him. However, Vozhevatov has already lost to Knurov the opportunity to influence the fate of Larisa. “I can’t, I can’t do anything,” is Vozhevatov’s answer to Larisa. material from the site
Finding no love, no respect, no simple compassion and understanding, Larisa loses the meaning of life. She says bitterly: “They looked at me and look at me as if they were fun. No one ever tried to look into my soul, I did not see sympathy from anyone, I did not hear a warm, heartfelt word. But it’s cold to live like that.”
Karandyshev's shot becomes for her deliverance from mental anguish, from vulgar life"things", toys in the hands of those who can pay for it. “To die while there is nothing to reproach yourself with yet” is the best that remains for a “hot heart” in the world of calculation and vanity.
This is Larisa's personal tragedy. But this is also the tragedy of a society where money rules and a person's happiness is measured only by their quantity.
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Drama "Dowry" (1879) became one of the pinnacles in Ostrovsky's dramaturgy. Here, each character is revealed with the utmost authenticity and persuasiveness. The play consists of a series of large and significant scenes, which are arranged in accordance with the logic of situations and situations.
Ostrovsky puts the fate of a woman at the center of the work, showing life from the most emotional and expressive side, contrasting the cold and soulless calculation and selfishness with the sincerity, gullibility and inconsideration of "hot hearts".
In "B" a piece of Russian life at the end of the 19th century is presented. The impoverished nobles Ogudalovs, living in the provincial Volga city of Bryakhimov, with difficulty maintaining the appearance of well-being and secularism, wealthy businessmen Knurov and Vozhevatov, "a brilliant gentleman from the shipowners" Sergey Sergeich Paratov, a poor official, "little man" Karandyshev, a wandering actor Robinson, a barman, servants, gypsies - this is the composition actors drama. The composition is quite colorful, but accurately reflects the signs of Russian life at that time.
The play is unusual in composition.. In general, this is a culmination drama, because it captures the moment of the highest tension in the life of the main character Larisa Ogudalova. The painful experiences of the “dowry”, a mental crisis due to a long and incomprehensible separation from Paratov for her forced the girl to make a difficult decision for herself - to become the wife of an uninteresting and unattractive Karandyshev.
Larisa, clearly idealizing Paratov, does not see his egoism and callousness and recklessly follows him, not in the least doubting his nobility. The shock of deceit turns out to be so heavy, and the situation is so irreparable - honor is lost, faith in a loved one and in love itself is lost - that life loses all meaning for Larisa. But in order to leave it, she does not find the strength in herself and is forced to accept the law of bourgeois society, where beauty, being a commodity, is bought and sold. Larisa is ready to become Knurov's kept woman, and only Karandyshev's shot put an end to doubts, torment, moral hesitation, cutting off the life of Larisa Ogudalova.
The play is structured in such a way that the main action develops in two streams - on stage and off stage. Only the most acute events take place on the stage, situations are shown that reveal the psychological complexity of relationships and sharp turns in the development of the plot. Everything ordinary, everyday or worldly known remains outside the stage space. Thus, the playwright omits the scene of Larisa's first meeting with Paratov, does not show her experiences after his departure (the viewer learns about this from the characters' replicas), there is no scene of Larisa's trip across the Volga with gypsies. The basis of the drama is not only the action, but also the psychological process.
"B" is a play about a beautiful, outstanding girl who finds herself in an ordinary bourgeois environment that looks at her as a bright, attractive thing. The theme of buying and selling permeates the entire work, is the main one and is announced at the very beginning of the drama, when there is a conversation about the “Swallow”, which was profitably bought by Vozhevatov from Paratov, about the pleasures for which “you have to pay” (meaning the pleasure of being in the Ogudalovs’ house ), that it would be nice to take a ride to Paris with Larisa Dmitrievna to an exhibition, and that this woman was created for luxury and she, like an expensive diamond, needs an expensive setting. All remarks about Larisa are not thrown by chance, they develop, and in the finale their truly dramatic meaning is revealed: at the most difficult moment for Larisa, when she realizes that Paratov cruelly deceived her, Knurov makes her an offer to go to Paris with him to the exhibition.
Larisa does not have that wholeness and inner strength that was felt in Katerina. Her soul rushes about m / y sword-that about pure love, about a noble groom, between the desire to love people, to live according to the laws of honor, according to the norms of morality adopted in the noble environment, and - the ability to moral compromise.
The playwright emphasizes the loneliness of Larisa with an unexpected device: the heroine dies to the “loud choir of gypsies”. Before her death, she perceives Karandyshev's shot as a blessing, as a deliverance from suffering. To the sounds of a gypsy song, Larisa speaks of love for people and sends a farewell kiss. At the beginning of the play, the Ogudalovs' house was compared to a camp, and the play ends with a camp song. Beginnings and ends, causes and effects, temporal and eternal have united. Dying, Larisa realizes that she is a stranger to everyone, but at the same time she does not blame anyone: “Let them have fun, whoever has fun ... I don’t want to interfere with anyone! Live, live everyone! her death is not an accident, but an inevitable death due to the inconsistency of this woman with a practical and cruel world.
"B" is a drama, but it is seen by the tragic e-you. A number of keynotes:
Simplicity, which is set off by the motif of wealth
At the beginning of the play, the motive of the tragedy arises: Larisa all the time feels herself over the edge of the abyss
Like Katerina, she recklessly shows her feelings all the time. Simplicity and stupidity testify to this.
The motive of the “man of the thing” is not only in Larisa, but also in Paratov.
the motive of the game - acting is characteristic of everyone except Larisa.
Dramatic conflict: “to be a thing is expensive” => having lost love, she accepts what is offered to her.
Death is a manifestation of weakness, not strength, as was the case with Katerina.
Two contenders for the heart of Laris - Paratov and Karandyshev. Both Knurov and Vozhevatov are related to the death of Larisa. However, Paratov and Karandyshev occupy a central place in the system of images. It was these heroes who pushed Larisa to the moral abyss. Paratov cruelly deceives the girl, uses her gullibility and selfless love, and Karandyshev, having no power over Larisa's heart, kills her.
At first glance, these characters are antipodes. Paratov is handsome, rich, "a brilliant gentleman from the shipowners," and Karandyshev is a petty, poor official with an uninteresting appearance. Paratov appears everywhere with chic, every gesture, every step draws attention to himself. Paratov is easy to find mutual language with people, makes them admire. Harita Ignatievna, for example, speaks of Paratov like this: “Well done man ... What a falcon! Look at you and rejoice." Larisa will deeply and strongly love Paratov, a brave and passionate admirer. Karandyshev, on the contrary, the girl, even agreeing to become his wife, almost despises. He is a straw for her, “for the cat. a drowning man grabs." None of the characters speak of him with respect. “Ch-to proud, envious,” remarks Vozhevatov. “Well, what is Karandyshev!” - with contempt and bewilderment gov. Knurov, having learned about Larisa's decision to marry this man. The envy of Karandyshev, his anger, the desire to be in the chosen society at all costs are unpleasant to those around him. Karandyshev and Paratov are rivals. M\u hero-mi there is a social. abyss. Karandyshev - "little ch-k", and Paratov - "master of life." He has a rule - "do not forgive anyone, otherwise they will forget the fear, they will begin to forget." And this is not an empty phrase, but one of the main qualities of Paratov, cat. can be defined as the nobility. However, with a deep analysis of the characters and actions of Paratov and Karandyshev, we can conclude that the characters have a lot in common. Both he and others are extremely proud and vain, they like to impress, they achieve their goal by any means. Both Larisa is needed for self-affirmation. She is a toy for them, a THING. Para-tov ensured that Larisa fell in love with him passionately, and he himself "recaptured all the suitors, and the trace caught a cold ..."
Returning to Bryakhimov and inviting the girl for a ride on the "Swallow", Paratov calmly sacrifices her reputation to his whim. For him, the trip is a cheerful farewell to a bachelor life, and for Larisa, it is a hope for a happy marriage with a loved one.
Karandyshev stubbornly waited for Larisa to be left without contenders for her hand, and he also achieved his goal: he became the girl's fiancé. He can not wait to experience the triumph of the winner, and after her consent to marry him, he already looks at Larisa as his property.
Both Karandyshev and Paratov are not indifferent to Larisa, but at the same time they do not value the girl, do not listen to her words, do not want to understand what is happening to her. The heroes revel in their power over Larisa. At the dinner party, Karandyshev rejoices, he is already enjoying his position as future husband, the complete ruler of Larisa. For her, he decides whether she will sing for the guests or not: “No, no, and don’t ask, you can’t; I forbid..." Both heroes are to blame for the death of Larisa. Both the “little man” and the brilliant gentleman do not have true sensitivity and the ability to love unselfishly in their souls. They believe that in a world where everything is based on calculation, you can buy honor, love, and beauty. Larisa idealized both Paratov and Karandyshev. She perceived Karandysheva as a person with a good soul, poor and misunderstood by others, she sincerely wanted to love him. Paratov was the ideal man for Larisa. She considered a hundred noble and reliable, dreamed of uniting her fate with him. Too late, the girl realized that in the world of profit and self-interest there is no place for love.
