<…>the idea of domestic despotism and a dozen other no less humane ideas, perhaps, lie in Mr. Ostrovsky's play. But he probably didn’t ask them when he started his drama. This is evident from the play itself.<…>The author spent less colors on domestic despotism than on the depiction of other springs of his play. One can still live with such despotism. Curly and Varvara gloriously lead him by the nose, and young Kabanov himself is not too embarrassed by him and regularly fills him with hops. The old woman Kabanova is more quarrelsome than evil, more of an inveterate formalist than a callous woman. Only Katerina perishes, but she would perish even without despotism. It is a sacrifice of one's own purity and one's beliefs. But we will return to this essential thought, which follows directly from Katerina's character. Now let's take a look at this person.
Before us are two female faces: the old woman Kabanova and Katerina. Both of them were born in the same stratum of society, and perhaps, and even most likely, in the same city. Both of them from childhood were surrounded by the same phenomena, strange phenomena, ugly to the point of some fairy-tale poetry. From an early age they submitted to the same demands, the same forms. Their whole life, measured by hours, flows with mathematical correctness. They look at life in exactly the same way, believe and worship the same thing. Their religion is the same. Wanderers and pilgrims are not translated in their house, they tell them the most ridiculous tales about their distant wanderings, tales in which they both believe as something indispensable and unchanging. The devil with his pranks plays the same role for them as the most common occurrence, the role of some household person. Meanwhile, all this life, all these circumstances, all this belief has made of one a dry and callous formalist, dried her naturally dry and poor temperament even more, while the other (Katerina), without ceasing to obey the phenomena around her, is completely convinced in their legality and truth, creates from all this a whole poetic world, full of some kind of enchanting charm. She is saved both by moral purity and infantile innocence, and by the poetic power that is innate in this character. This face, without ceasing to be real, is all imbued with poetry, that Russian poetry that blows at you from Russian songs and legends. The poetic power in her is so great that she dresses everything in poetic images, sees poetry in everything, even in the grave. The sun warms her, she says, wets her with rain, in the spring grass will grow on her, so soft, - the birds will bring out the nest, the flowers will bloom.
We must cite here one poetic page from Mr. Ostrovsky's drama in order to be able to trace further the character of Katerina!
Was I like that, she says to Varvara, her husband's sister. - I lived, did not grieve about anything, like a bird in the wild. Mother did not have a soul in me, dressed me up like a doll, did not force me to work; Whatever I want, I do it. Do you know how I lived in girls? Now I'll tell you. I used to get up early; if it’s summer, I’ll go to the spring, wash myself, bring some water with me, and that’s it, I’ll water all the flowers in the house. I had many, many flowers. Then we'll go to church with mamma, all of you, and wanderers. Our house was full of wanderers, but praying people. And we will come from the church, sit down for some work, more like gold velvet, and the wanderers will begin to tell where they have been, what they have seen, different lives, or sing poems. So the time will pass before dinner, then the old women will fall asleep, and I will walk in the garden. Then to Vespers, and in the evening again stories, and singing. That was good.
And when Varvara remarks to her that now she lives just the same way, she continues:
Yes, everything here seems to be from under captivity. And I loved going to church to death! For sure, it used to happen that I would enter paradise and not see anyone, and I don’t remember the time, and I don’t hear when the service was over. Exactly how it all happened in one second. Mom said that everyone used to look at me, what was happening to me! You know, on a sunny day, such a bright column goes down from the dome, and smoke is walking in this column, like clouds, and I see, it used to be that angels in this column fly and sing. And then, it happened, a girl, I would get up at night, we also had lamps burning everywhere, but somewhere in a corner and I pray until the morning. Or, early in the morning, I’ll go to the garden, as soon as the sun rises, I’ll fall on my knees, pray and cry, and I myself don’t know what I’m praying for and what I’m crying about; so they will find me. And what I prayed for then, what I asked for, I don’t know; I don't need anything, I've had enough of everything. And what dreams I had, Varenka, what dreams! Or golden temples, or some extraordinary gardens, and everyone sings invisible voices, and smells of cypress, and mountains and trees, as if not the same as usual, but as they are written on the images.
From this page, amazing in its poetic charm, the character is clearly created in your mind. This is the same situation in which Kabanova finally became callous and which Katerina's young, dreamy imagination molded into such high poetry. For this pure, unsullied nature, only the bright side of things is available; obeying everything around her, finding everything legal, she knew how to create her own little world out of the miserable life of a provincial town. She believes in all the nonsense of wanderers, believes in evil spirits and is especially afraid of her. This power in her imagination was adorned with all the legends, all the folk stories. Ten thousand ceremonies, so despotic ruling in the town where she lives, does not bother her at all. She grew up among them and fulfills them sacredly. Only where they rape her open and direct soul, there she revolts against them. She will not, for example, no matter how you persuade her, howl at her husband who has left, just so that people can see how much she loves him. "There's nothing! Yes, I don't know how. Why make people laugh!" - she answers the words of her mother-in-law, that, they say, a good wife, after seeing her husband off, howls for an hour and a half, lies on the porch. She considers the slightest deviation from the straight path a grave sin. Hell with all its horrors, with all its fiery poetry, occupies her imagination just as much as paradise with its joys. But do not ascribe its purity and virtue to one religious trend of mind. This purity is innate in her. Without her, she, like thousands of others, would have entered into various deals and agreements with her conscience and through various donations, penances, * superfluous fasts and bows, she would have got along well with hell and paradise, no matter how terrible one was, incorruptible another.
Meanwhile, the evil one or life confuses her and leads her into temptation. The bitter fate that she suffers in the house from her mother-in-law, the insignificance of her husband, who, although he loves her, is unable to make her love himself, compels her to look around her, to leave the poetic world, which has moved away from her and now stands before her as a memory. In the beautiful scene of the first act with Varvara, she tells her the state of her soul with charming simplicity. It only seemed to her that Varvara expressed sympathy for her, and she immediately lays out before her all the treasures of her heart. This feature of the Russian character to be frank with the first comer, extremely convenient for dramatic form, you will find in every work of Mr. Ostrovsky. If Katerina in this scene does not yet confess her love for Boris, the nephew of one exuberant merchant Diky, it is only because she herself does not yet suspect this love in herself. Meanwhile, she already loves and, once convinced of this, gives herself up to her love almost without struggle and with a full consciousness of sin. Katerina is an ardent woman, a woman of first impressions and impulses, a woman of life. She knows very well that she will fall as soon as her husband leaves for Moscow, that she will not be able to control her heart, and she is looking in advance for means and defense against temptation. When her husband refuses to take her with him, she asks him, on her knees asks him to take some terrible oath from her, “so that I don’t dare,” she says, “without you, under no circumstances should I speak with anyone. strangers, not to see each other, so that I don’t dare to think about anyone but you ... So that I don’t see either my father or mother! I’ll die without repentance if I ... "
<…>She would have kept her vow. The whole character is visible in these words. She is a weak woman, though ardent and passionate. Everything that she says to Varvara about her agility is nothing but sweet boasting on her part, the boasting of a nature that knows neither life nor its true strengths. Religion alone can keep it from falling, understood by it, like all our common people, very narrowly and materially. As a redemptive sacrifice of her oath, she will give the dearest blessings - her parents, her hope not to die without repentance. But her husband did not take this oath from her, probably taking her desire for a woman's whim, and she fell.
The evil one, who tormented her with temptation, loves such natures. They are very susceptible to love temptations and fight little with it, as if they know in advance that they cannot overcome the enemy. They know in advance that they will not be able to bear their fall, that long years of tears and repentance will follow after days of ecstasy, and that the best way their bitter life can end will be high monastery walls, or long and sincere wanderings to various pilgrimages, unless there is a whirlpool. some river or the bottom of the nearest pond. And yet they fall.
Dostoevsky M.M. ""Storm". Drama in five acts by A.N. Ostrovsky"
"Storm". This is a young woman who does not yet have children and lives in her mother-in-law's house, where, in addition to her and her husband Tikhon, Tikhon's unmarried sister, Varvara, also lives. Katerina has been in love with Boris, who lives in the house of Dikiy, his orphaned nephew, for some time.
While her husband is nearby, she secretly dreams of Boris, but after his departure, Katerina begins to meet with a young man and enters into a love affair with him, with the aid of her daughter-in-law, to whom Katerina's connection is even beneficial.
The main conflict in the novel is the confrontation between Katerina and her mother-in-law, Tikhon's mother, Kabanikha. Life in the city of Kalinov is a deep swamp that sucks deeper and deeper. "Old concepts" prevail over everything. Whatever the “seniors” do, they should get away with everything, free-thinking will not be tolerated here, the “wild nobility” here feels like a fish in water.
The mother-in-law is jealous of a young attractive daughter-in-law, feeling that with the marriage of her son, her power over him rests only on constant reproaches and moral pressure. In her daughter-in-law, despite her dependent position, Kabanikha feels a strong opponent, a whole nature that does not succumb to her tyrant oppression.
Katerina does not have due respect for her, does not tremble and does not look Kabanikhe in the mouth, catching her every word. She does not act sad when her husband leaves, she does not try to be useful to her mother-in-law in order to earn a favorable nod - she is different, her nature resists pressure.
Katerina is a believing woman, and for her sin is a crime that she cannot hide. In the house of her parents, she lived as she wanted, and did what she liked: she planted flowers, prayed earnestly in church, experiencing a sense of enlightenment, listened with curiosity to the stories of wanderers. She was always loved, and she developed a strong, self-willed character, she did not tolerate any injustice and could not lie and maneuver.
At the mother-in-law, however, constant unfair reproaches await her. She is guilty of the fact that Tikhon does not, as before, show proper respect for his mother, and does not demand it from his wife either. The boar reproaches her son for not appreciating the mother's suffering in his name. The power of the tyrant slips out of the hands right before our eyes.
The betrayal of the daughter-in-law, in which the impressionable Katerina confessed in public, is the reason for Kabanikh to rejoice and repeat:
“I told you! And no one listened to me!
All sins and transgressions are due to the fact that, perceiving new trends, they do not listen to the elders. The world in which the eldest Kabanova lives suits her quite well: power over her family and in the city, wealth, severe moral pressure over her family. This is the life of Kabanikh, this is how her parents lived, and their parents - and this has not changed.
While the girl is young, she does what she wants, but when she gets married, she seems to die for the world, appearing with her family only in the market and in the church, and occasionally in crowded places. So Katerina, having come to her husband's house after a free and happy youth, also had to symbolically die, but she could not.
The same feeling of a miracle that is about to come, the expectation of the unknown, the desire to fly in and soar, which had been with her since her free youth, did not disappear anywhere, and the explosion would have happened anyway. Even if not by a connection with Boris, Katerina would still challenge the world into which she came after marriage.
It would be easier for Katerina if she loved her husband. But every day, watching how Tikhon is mercilessly suppressed by her mother-in-law, she lost her feelings, and even the remnants of respect for him. She felt sorry for him, encouraging him from time to time, and not even being very offended when Tikhon, humiliated by his mother, takes out his insult on her.
Boris seems different to her, although he is in the same humiliated position because of his sister as Tikhon. Since Katerina sees him briefly, she cannot appreciate his spiritual qualities. And when two weeks of love dope are dispelled with the arrival of her husband, she is too busy with mental anguish and her guilt to understand that his situation is no better than that of Tikhon. Boris, still clinging to a faint hope that he will get something from his grandmother's fortune, is forced to leave. He does not call Katerina with him, his mental strength is not enough for this, and he leaves with tears:
“Oh, if only there was strength!”
Katerina has no way out. The daughter-in-law has fled, the husband is broken, the lover is leaving. She remains in the power of the Kabanikha, and understands that now she will not let the guilty daughter-in-law do anything ... if she scolded her for nothing before. Further - this is a slow death, not a day without reproaches, a weak husband and there is no way to see Boris. And believing Katerina prefers to all this a terrible mortal sin - suicide - as a liberation from earthly torments.
She realizes that her impulse is terrible, but for her it is even more preferable to punish for sin than to live in the same house with the Boar before her physical death - the spiritual one has already happened.
A whole and freedom-loving nature can never withstand pressure and mockery.
Katerina could have run away, but she had no one with her. Because - suicide, quick death instead of slow. She nevertheless made her escape from the realm of "tyrants of Russian life".
Ostrovsky's play "Thunderstorm" was written a year before the abolition of serfdom, in 1859. This work stands out among the other plays of the playwright due to the character of the main character. In The Thunderstorm, Katerina is the main character through which the conflict of the play is shown. Katerina is not like other residents of Kalinov, she is distinguished by a special perception of life, strength of character and self-esteem. The image of Katerina from the play "Thunderstorm" is formed due to the combination of many factors. For example, words, thoughts, environment, actions.
Childhood
Katya is about 19 years old, she was married early. From Katerina's monologue in the first act, we learn about Katya's childhood. Mommy "didn't have a soul" in her. Together with her parents, the girl went to church, walked, and then did some work. Katerina Kabanova recalls all this with light sadness. An interesting phrase of Varvara that "we have the same thing." But now Katya does not have a feeling of lightness, now "everything is done under duress." In fact, life before marriage practically did not differ from life after: the same actions, the same events. But now Katya treats everything differently. Then she felt supported, felt alive, she had amazing dreams about flying. “And now they dream,” but only much less frequently. Before her marriage, Katerina felt the movement of life, the presence of some higher forces in this world, she was devout: “how she loved to go to church with passion!
» From early childhood, Katerina had everything she needed: mother's love and freedom. Now, by the will of circumstances, she is cut off from her native person and deprived of her freedom.
Environment
Katerina lives in the same house with her husband, her husband's sister and mother-in-law. This circumstance alone does not contribute to a happy family life. However, the situation is worsened by the fact that Kabanikha, Katya's mother-in-law, is a cruel and greedy person. Greed here should be understood as a passionate, bordering on insanity, desire for something. The boar wants to subordinate everyone and everything to his will. One experience with Tikhon went well for her, the next victim was Katerina. Despite the fact that Marfa Ignatievna was waiting for her son's wedding, she is unhappy with her daughter-in-law. Kabanikha did not expect that Katerina would be so strong in character that she could silently resist her influence. The old woman understands that Katya can turn Tikhon against her mother, she is afraid of this, so she tries in every possible way to break Katya in order to avoid such a development of events. Kabanikha says that his wife has long become dearer to Tikhon than his mother.
“Boar: Al wife takes you away from me, I don’t know.
Kabanov: No, mother!What are you, have mercy!
Katerina: For me, mother, it’s all the same that your own mother, that you, and Tikhon loves you too.
Kabanova: You, it seems, could be silent if you are not asked. What did you jump out in the eyes of something to poke! To see, or what, how you love your husband? So we know, we know, in the eyes of something you prove it to everyone.
Katerina: You are talking about me, mother, in vain. With people, that without people, I’m all alone, I don’t prove anything from myself ”Katerina's answer is quite interesting for several reasons. She, unlike Tikhon, addresses Marfa Ignatievna as you, as if putting herself on a par with her. Katya draws Kabanikhi's attention to the fact that she does not pretend and does not try to seem like someone she is not. Despite the fact that Katya fulfills the humiliating request to kneel before Tikhon, this does not speak of her humility. Katerina is offended by false words: “Who cares to endure in vain?” - with this answer, Katya not only defends herself, but also reproaches the Kabanikha with lies and slander.
Katerina's husband in The Thunderstorm appears to be a gray man. Tikhon is like an overgrown child who is tired of his mother's care, but at the same time does not try to change the situation, but only complains about life. Even his sister, Varvara, reproaches Tikhon with the fact that he cannot protect Katya from the attacks of Marfa Ignatievna. Barbara is the only person who is at least a little interested in Katya, but still she inclines the girl to the fact that she will have to lie and squirm in order to survive in this family.
Relationship with Boris
In The Thunderstorm, the image of Katerina is also revealed through a love line. Boris came from Moscow on business related to receiving an inheritance. Feelings for Katya flare up suddenly, as do the girl's reciprocal feelings. This is love at first sight. Boris is worried that Katya is married, but he continues to look for meetings with her. Katya, realizing her feelings, tries to give them up. Treason is contrary to the laws of Christian morality and society. Barbara helps the lovers meet. For ten whole days, Katya secretly meets with Boris (while Tikhon was away). Having learned about the arrival of Tikhon, Boris refuses to meet with Katya, he asks Varvara to persuade Katya to keep quiet about their secret meetings. But Katerina is not such a person: she needs to be honest with others and herself. She is afraid of God's punishment for her sin, therefore she regards the raging thunderstorm as a sign from above and talks about betrayal. After that, Katya decides to talk to Boris. It turns out that he is going to leave for Siberia for a few days, but he cannot take the girl with him. It is obvious that Boris does not really need Katya, that he did not love her. But Katya did not like Boris either. More precisely, she loved, but not Boris. In The Thunderstorm, Ostrovsky's image of Katerina endowed her with the ability to see the good in everything, endowed the girl with a surprisingly strong imagination. Katya thought up the image of Boris, she saw in him one of his features - the rejection of Kalinov's reality - and made it the main one, refusing to see other sides. After all, Boris came to ask for money from Wild, just as other Kalinovites did. Boris was for Katya a person from another world, from the world of freedom, the one that the girl dreamed of. Therefore, Boris himself becomes a kind of embodiment of freedom for Katya. She falls in love not with him, but with her ideas about him.
The drama "Thunderstorm" ends tragically. Katya rushes into the Volga, realizing that she cannot live in such a world. And there is no other world. The girl, despite her religiosity, commits one of the worst sins of the Christian paradigm. It takes a lot of willpower to make such a decision. Unfortunately, in those circumstances, the girl had no other choice. Surprisingly, Katya maintains inner purity even after committing suicide.
A detailed disclosure of the image of the main character and a description of her relationship with other characters in the play will be useful for 10 classes in preparing for an essay on the topic “The image of Katerina in the play“ Thunderstorm ””.
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2. The image of Katerina in the play "Thunderstorm"
Katerina is a lonely young woman who lacks human participation, sympathy, love. The need for this draws her to Boris. She sees that outwardly he does not look like other residents of the city of Kalinov, and, not being able to find out his inner essence, considers him a man of another world. In her imagination, Boris appears as a beautiful prince who will take her away from the "dark kingdom" to the fairy-tale world that exists in her dreams.
In terms of character and interests, Katerina stands out sharply from her environment. The fate of Katerina, unfortunately, is a vivid and typical example of the fate of thousands of Russian women of that time. Katerina is a young woman, the wife of the merchant's son Tikhon Kabanov. She recently left her home and moved to her husband's house, where she lives with her mother-in-law Kabanova, who is the sovereign mistress. In the family, Katerina has no rights, she is not even free to dispose of herself. With warmth and love, she recalls her parental home, her maiden life. There she lived freely, surrounded by the caress and care of her mother.
Katerina found herself in completely different conditions in her husband's house .. At every step she felt dependent on her mother-in-law, suffered humiliation and insults. On the part of Tikhon, she does not meet any support, much less understanding, since he himself is under the rule of Kabanikh. By her kindness, Katerina is ready to treat Kabanikha like her own mother. "But Katerina's sincere feelings do not meet with support from either Kabanikha or Tikhon.
Life in such an environment changed the character of Katerina. Katerina's sincerity and truthfulness collide in the house of Kabanikh with lies, hypocrisy, hypocrisy, and rudeness. When love for Boris is born in Katerina, it seems to her a crime, and she struggles with the feeling that has washed over her. Katerina's truthfulness and sincerity make her suffer so much that she finally has to repent to her husband. Katerina's sincerity, her truthfulness are incompatible with the life of the "dark kingdom". All this was the cause of the tragedy of Katerina.
"Katerina's public repentance shows the depth of her suffering, moral greatness, determination. But after repentance, her situation became unbearable. Her husband does not understand her, Boris is weak-willed and does not go to her aid. The situation has become hopeless - Katerina is dying. It is not the fault of Katerina's death one specific person. Her death is the result of the incompatibility of morality and the way of life in which she was forced to exist. The image of Katerina was of great educational importance for Ostrovsky's contemporaries and for subsequent generations. He called for a fight against all forms of despotism and oppression of the human person. This an expression of the growing protest of the masses against all forms of slavery.
Katerina, sad and cheerful, compliant and obstinate, dreamy, depressed and proud. Such different states of mind are explained by the naturalness of every mental movement of this at the same time restrained and impulsive nature, the strength of which lies in the ability to always be itself. Katerina remained true to herself, that is, she could not change the very essence of her character.
I think that the most important trait of Katerina's character is honesty towards herself, her husband, the world around her; it is her unwillingness to live a lie. She does not want and cannot cheat, pretend, lie, hide. This is confirmed by the scene of Katerina's confession of treason. Not a thunderstorm, not a frightening prophecy of a crazy old woman, not a fear of fiery hell prompted the heroine to tell the truth. “The whole heart is broken! I can't take it anymore!" So she began her confession. For her honest and whole nature, the false position in which she found herself is unbearable. To live just to live is not for her. To live means to be yourself. Her most precious value is personal freedom, the freedom of the soul.
With such a character, Katerina, after betraying her husband, could not remain in his house, return to a monotonous and dreary life, endure the constant reproaches and “moralizing” of Kabanikh, lose her freedom. But any patience comes to an end. It is difficult for Katerina to be where she is not understood, where her human dignity is humiliated and insulted, her feelings and desires are ignored. Before her death, she says: “What is home, what is in the grave is all the same ... In the grave is better ...” She does not want death, but life is unbearable.
Katerina is a deeply religious and God-fearing person. Since, according to the Christian religion, suicide is a great sin, by deliberately committing it, she showed not weakness, but strength of character. Her death is a challenge to the “dark force”, a desire to live in the “light kingdom” of love, joy and happiness.
The death of Katerina is the result of a collision of two historical eras. With her death, Katerina protests against despotism and tyranny, her death testifies to the approaching end of the "dark kingdom." The image of Katerina belongs to the best images of Russian fiction. Katerina is a new type of people in Russian reality in the 60s of the XIX century.
The image of Katerina in the play "Thunderstorm" contrasts perfectly with the gloomy realities of Russia in the pre-reform period. At the epicenter of the unfolding drama is the conflict between the heroine, who seeks to defend her human rights, and a world in which strong, rich and powerful people rule everything.
Katerina as the embodiment of a pure, strong and bright people's soul
From the very first pages of the work, the image of Katerina in the play "Thunderstorm" cannot but attract attention and make one feel sympathy. Honesty, the ability to feel deeply, the sincerity of nature and a penchant for poetry - these are the features that distinguish Katerina herself from representatives of the "dark kingdom". In the main character, Ostrovsky tried to capture all the beauty of the people's simple soul. The girl expresses her emotions and experiences unpretentiously and does not use distorted words and expressions common in the merchant environment. This is not difficult to see, Katerina's speech itself is more like a melodic chant, it is replete with diminutive and caressing words and expressions: "sun", "grass", "rain". The heroine shows incredible candor when she talks about her free life in her father's house, among icons, calm prayers and flowers, where she lived "like a bird in the wild."
The image of a bird is an accurate reflection of the state of mind of the heroine
The image of Katerina in the play "Thunderstorm" perfectly echoes the image of a bird, which symbolizes freedom in folk poetry. Talking with Varvara, she repeatedly refers to this analogy and claims that she is "a free bird that has fallen into an iron cage." In captivity, she is sad and painful.
Katerina's life in the Kabanovs' house. Love of Katerina and Boris
In the house of the Kabanovs, Katerina, who is dreamy and romantic, feels completely alien. The humiliating reproaches of the mother-in-law, who is used to keeping all the household in fear, the atmosphere of tyranny, lies and hypocrisy oppress the girl. However, Katerina herself, who by nature is a strong, whole person, knows that there is a limit to her patience: “I don’t want to live here, I won’t, even if you cut me!” Varvara's words that one cannot survive in this house without deceit cause Katerina's sharp rejection. The heroine opposes the "dark kingdom", his orders did not break her will to live, fortunately, they did not make her become like other residents of the Kabanovs' house and begin to hypocrite and lie at every turn.
The image of Katerina in the play "Thunderstorm" is revealed in a new way, when the girl makes an attempt to break away from the "hateful" world. She does not know how and does not want to love the way the inhabitants of the “dark kingdom” do, freedom, openness, “honest” happiness are important to her. While Boris convinces her that their love will remain a secret, Katerina wants everyone to know about it, so that everyone can see. Tikhon, her husband, however, the bright feeling awakened in her heart seems to her And just at this moment the reader comes face to face with the tragedy of her suffering and torment. From that moment on, Katerina's conflict occurs not only with the outside world, but also with herself. It is difficult for her to make a choice between love and duty, she tries to forbid herself to love and be happy. However, the struggle with her own feelings is beyond the strength of the fragile Katerina.
The way of life and the laws that reign in the world around the girl put pressure on her. She seeks to repent of her deed, to purify her soul. Seeing the picture “The Last Judgment” on the wall in the church, Katerina cannot stand it, falls to her knees and begins to publicly repent of sin. However, even this does not bring the girl the desired relief. Other heroes of the drama "Thunderstorm" by Ostrovsky are not able to support her, even a loved one. Boris refuses Katerina's requests to take her away from here. This person is not a hero, he is simply not able to protect either himself or his beloved.
The death of Katerina is a ray of light that illuminated the "dark kingdom"
Evil is attacking Katerina from all sides. Constant harassment from the mother-in-law, throwing between duty and love - all this eventually leads the girl to a tragic ending. Having managed to know happiness and love in her short life, she is simply not able to continue living in the Kabanovs' house, where such concepts do not exist at all. She sees the only way out in suicide: the future frightens Katerina, and the grave is perceived as salvation from mental anguish. However, the image of Katerina in the drama "Thunderstorm", in spite of everything, remains strong - she did not choose a miserable existence in a "cage" and did not allow anyone to break her living soul.
Nevertheless, the death of the heroine was not in vain. The girl won a moral victory over the "dark kingdom", she managed to dispel a little darkness in the hearts of people, induce them to action, open their eyes. The life of the heroine herself became a "beam of light" that flashed in the darkness and left its glow over the world of madness and darkness for a long time.
