The tragic fate of Katerina. "a tragic set of circumstances that led Katerina to her death"

The drama "Thunderstorm" is the pinnacle of Ostrovsky's work. In his work, the writer shows the imperfection of the patriarchal world, the influence of the system on the morals of people, he reveals society to us with all its vices and shortcomings, and at the same time he introduces a hero into the drama, different from this community, alien to it, reveals the influence of society on this person, how the character enters the circle of these people. In "Thunderstorm" Katerina becomes this new, different hero, "beam of light". It belongs to the old patriarchal world, but at the same time it comes into irreconcilable conflict with it. Using her example, the writer shows how terrible it is to be in the "kingdom of despots and tyrants" for a person with such a pure soul as Katerina. A woman comes into conflict with this society, and, along with external problems, internal contradictions are brewing in Katerina's soul, which, together with fatal circumstances, lead Katerina to suicide.

Katerina is a lady with a strong character, but meanwhile, moreover, she cannot resist the "kingdom of petty tyrants and despots."
The mother-in-law (Boar) is a rough, domineering, despotic, ignorant nature, she is closed to everything beautiful. Of all the actors, Marfa Ignatievna exerts the strongest pressure on Katerina. The heroine herself admits: "If it weren't for my mother-in-law! .. She crushed me ... she made me sick of the house: the walls are even more disgusting." Kabanikha constantly accuses Katerina of almost all mortal sins, reproaches and finds fault with her with or without reason. But Kabanikha has no moral right to mock and condemn Katerina, because the inner qualities of her son’s wife, in their depth and purity, cannot be compared with the coarsened, callous, low soul of Marfa Ignatievna, and meanwhile Kabanikha is one of those through whose fault Katerina comes to thoughts of suicide. After the death of the main character, Kuligin says: "... the soul is now not yours: it is before a judge who is more merciful than you." Katerina cannot come to terms with the oppressive, oppressive atmosphere that prevails in Kalinovo. Her personality strives for freedom at any cost, she says, "whatever I want, I'll do it," "I'll leave, and I was like that." With marriage, Katerina's life turned into a living hell, this existence in which there are no joyful moments, and moreover, love for Boris does not relieve her of longing.

In this "dark kingdom" everything is alien to her, everything oppresses her. She, according to the customs of that time, married not of her own free will and to an ugly man whom she would never love. Katerina soon realized how weak and pitiful her husband was, he himself could not resist his mother, Kabanikhe, and, of course, was not able to resist insulting Katerina from constant attacks from her mother-in-law. The main character tries to convince herself and Varvara that she loves her husband, but nevertheless later confesses to her husband's sister: "I feel sorry for him very much." Pity is the only feeling she has for her husband. Katerina herself understands perfectly well that she will never love her husband, and the words she uttered when her husband left (“how I would love you”) are words of despair. Katerina was already possessed by another feeling - love for Boris, and her attempt to grab hold of her husband in order to prevent trouble, a thunderstorm, the approach of which she feels, is futile and useless. Tisha does not listen to her, he stands next to his wife, but in his dreams he is already far from her - his thoughts are about drinking and walking outside Kalinov, he himself says to his wife: "I can't figure you out, Katya!" Yes, where can he "disassemble" it! The inner world of Katerina is too complicated and incomprehensible for people like Kabanov. Not only Tikhon, but also his sister says to Katerina: "I don't understand what you're saying."

In the "dark kingdom" there is not a single person whose spiritual qualities would be equal to Katerina, and moreover, Boris - a hero singled out by a woman from the whole crowd, is not worthy of Katerina. Her love is a turbulent river, his is a small stream that is about to dry up. Boris is only going to take a walk with Katerina at the hour of Tikhon's departure, and then ... then we'll see. He doesn’t care too much what the hobby will turn out for Katerina, Boris is not stopped, moreover, by Kudryash’s warning: “You want to completely ruin her.” On the last date, he says to Katerina: "Who knew that we would suffer so much for our love with you," - after all, at the first meeting, the lady told him: "I ruined, ruined, ruined."

The reasons that prompted Katerina to commit suicide are hidden not only (and, moreover, not so much) in the society surrounding her, but in herself. Her personality is an expensive stone, and it is impossible for foreign particles to invade her. She cannot, like Varvara, work according to the principle "if only everything was sewn and covered", she cannot exist, keeping such a terrible secret in herself, and moreover, confession in front of everyone does not bring her relief, she understands that she will never atone for her guilt in front of him, and can not come to terms with it. She embarked on the path of sin, but will not aggravate it by lying to herself and everyone, and understands that the only deliverance from her mental anguish is death. Katerina asks Boris to take her to Siberia, but moreover, if she runs away from this society, she is not destined to hide from herself, from remorse. To some extent, perhaps, Boris also understands this and says that "there is only one thing we need to ask God for her to die as soon as possible, so that she does not suffer for a long time!" One of Katerina's problems is that "she doesn't know how to deceive, she can't hide anything." She cannot deceive or hide from herself, much less from others. Katerina is constantly tormented by the consciousness of her sinfulness.

Translated from Greek, the name Catherine means "always pure", and our heroine, of course, constantly strives for spiritual purity. She is alien to all kinds of lies and untruths, moreover, having got into such a degraded society, she does not change her inner ideal, she does not want to become the same as many people of that circle. Katerina does not absorb dirt, she can be compared to a lotus flower that grows in a swamp, but, in spite of everything, blooms with unique snow-white flowers. Katerina does not live up to the lush flowering, her half-blossomed flower withered, but no toxic substances penetrated into it, he died innocent.

The main character of Ostrovsky's work "Thunderstorm" is Katerina. She is a very kind and compassionate girl. She is very free-spirited. Katerina loves to go to church, it gives her great pleasure.

Once Katerina had to marry Tikhon. She did not love this man. But at that time, love and marriage were different things. But despite this, Katerina always tried to please her husband in everything.

Later, Katerina meets Boris.

She loved this man. And she was hurt that she could not see him. She later confessed her feelings for Boris to her husband.

Another possible circumstance that led Katerina to death can be considered the behavior of Kabanikh. She attacked Katerina all the time. She was very annoyed by everything that was connected with her, so Kabanikha found fault with her all the time. And Tikhon only told Katerina that she simply did not pay attention. But Katerina couldn't just listen to it.

In my opinion, it was all of the above that contributed to the sad end that Katerina chose for herself.

Updated: 2017-06-21

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Katerina is one of the main characters of the play, the wife of Tikhon Kabanov. Katerina was a religious, kind, natural girl. The religiosity of Katerina is confirmed by the lines from the play: “And to death I loved to go to church. For sure, it used to be that I would enter paradise ... ”The girl is not even capable of lies and deceit.

N. A. Dobrolyubov in his article called Katerina "a ray of light in a dark kingdom." He analyzed in detail the motives of Katerina’s actions, believed that she “does not at all belong to violent characters, dissatisfied, loving to destroy. On the contrary, this character is predominantly creative, loving, ideal. That's why she tries to ennoble everything in her imagination.

The situation is different with her relationships in life. Katerina married Tikhon Kabanov not for love, but for ideas. Concepts in the nineteenth century were different - there was a certain difference between the concepts of "marriage" and "love." It was believed that marriage is a worthy life, and love is something sinful and not forbidden. Katenka did not love Tikhon, did not feel any warm feelings for him, and changed a lot after her marriage: she does not feel such delight from going to church, she cannot do her usual business. But she continues to try to be faithful to her husband even when she falls in love with Boris, Dikiy's nephew, an intelligent and educated man, but weak in character. Subsequently, of course, she confesses her love for Boris to her husband.

But Katya's life is also complicated by the fact that Kabanikha appears in her. It can be safely called the antipode of Katerina, the complete opposite. She is a strong and powerful person, does not believe in forgiveness and mercy. Kabanikha observes the old foundations of life, protests against the movement of life forward, is a prominent representative of the patriarchal way of life. Kabanikha is very annoyed by Katya, and she constantly finds fault with her, and Tikhon does not try to interfere, saying this: “What is there to listen to her! She needs to say something! Well, let him say it, and you let it pass by your ears! But Katyusha is not the kind of person who can ignore these attacks, "leave a deaf ear", because she fought this dark kingdom, did not want to become part of it.

But Dobrolyubov did not catch this in his article. I did not catch the main thing - the fundamental difference between the religiosity of Kabanikh and the religiosity of Katerina.

Thus, it is possible that it was Kabanikh's attacks that caused the death of the girl. Also, a failed romance with Boris could play a certain role. As I have already mentioned more than once - Katerina is a freedom-loving girl who did not want to put up with reality, and Katerina's suicide is a kind of protest, rebellion, a call to action.

The drama "Thunderstorm" is the pinnacle of Ostrovsky's work. In his work, the writer shows the imperfection of the patriarchal world, the influence of the system on the morals of people, he reveals to us society with all its vices and shortcomings, and at the same time he introduces a hero into the drama, different from this community, alien to it, reveals the influence of society on this person, how the character enters the circle of these people. In The Thunderstorm, this new, different hero, becomes a "beam of light". It belongs to the old patriarchal world, but at the same time it comes into irreconcilable conflict with it. Using her example, the writer shows how terrible it is to be in the "kingdom of despots and tyrants" for a person with such a pure soul as Katerina. A woman comes into conflict with this society, and, along with external problems, internal contradictions are brewing in Katerina's soul, which, together with fatal circumstances, lead Katerina to suicide. Katerina is a woman with a strong character, but meanwhile even she cannot resist the "kingdom of petty tyrants and despots."

The mother-in-law (Boar) is a rough, domineering, despotic, ignorant nature, she is closed to everything beautiful. Of all the actors, Marfa Ignatievna exerts the strongest pressure on Katerina. The heroine herself admits: “If it were not for the mother-in-law! .. She crushed me ...

it made me sick of the house: the walls are even disgusting. Kabanikha constantly accuses Katerina of almost all mortal sins, reproaches and finds fault with her with or without reason.

But Kabanikha has no moral right to mock and condemn Katerina, because the inner qualities of her son’s wife, in their depth and purity, cannot be compared with the coarsened, callous, low soul of Marfa Ignatievna, and meanwhile Kabanikha is one of those through whose fault Katerina comes to thoughts of suicide .. After the death of the main character, Kuligin says: "... the soul is now not yours: it is before a judge who is more merciful than you."

Katerina cannot come to terms with the oppressive, oppressive atmosphere that prevails in Kalinovo. Her soul strives for freedom at any cost, she says, “whatever I want, I’ll do it,” “I’ll leave, and I was like that.” With her marriage, Katerina's life turned into a living hell, this existence in which there are no joyful moments, and even love for Boris does not relieve her of longing. In this "dark kingdom" everything is alien to her, everything oppresses her. She, according to the customs of that time, married not of her own free will and to an ugly man whom she would never love. Katerina soon realized how weak and pitiful her husband was, he himself could not resist his mother, Kabanikha, and, naturally, was not able to protect Katerina from constant attacks from her mother-in-law.

The main character tries to convince herself and Varvara that she loves her husband, but nevertheless later confesses to her husband's sister: "I feel sorry for him very much." Pity is the only feeling she has for her husband. Katerina herself perfectly understands that she will never love her husband, and the words she uttered when her husband left (“how I would love you”) are words of despair, Katerina was already seized by another feeling - love for Boris, and her attempt to grab hold of husband, in order to prevent trouble, a thunderstorm, the approach of which she feels is futile and useless. Tisha does not listen to her, he stands next to his wife, but in his dreams he is already far from her - his thoughts are about drinking and walking outside Kalinov, he himself says to his wife: “I can’t figure you out, Katya!” Yes, where is he to "disassemble" it! The inner world of Katerina is too complicated and incomprehensible for people like Kabanov. Not only Tikhon, but also his sister Godr-rit Katerina: "I don't understand what you're saying."

In the "dark kingdom" there is not a single person whose spiritual qualities would be equal to Katerina, and even Boris - a hero singled out by a woman from the whole crowd, is not worthy of Katerina. Her love is a turbulent river, his is a small stream that is about to dry up.

Boris is only going to take a walk with Katerina during Tikhon's departure, and then ... then we'll see. He doesn’t care too much what the hobby will turn out for Katerina, Boris is not stopped even by Kudryash’s warning: “You want to completely ruin her.” On the last date, he says to Katerina: “Who knew that it was for our love to suffer so much with you,” because at the first meeting the woman told him: “I ruined, ruined, ruined.” The reasons that prompted Katerina to commit suicide are hidden not only (and even not so much) in the society surrounding her, but in herself.

Her soul is a gem and foreign particles cannot invade her. She cannot, like Varvara, act according to the principle “if only everything was sewn and covered”, she cannot live, keeping such a terrible secret in herself, and even a confession in front of everyone does not bring her relief, she understands that she will never atone for her guilt before himself and can't deal with it. She did not embark on the path of sin, but she will not aggravate it by lying to herself and everyone, and understands that the only deliverance from her mental anguish is death. Katerina asks Boris to take her to Siberia, but even if she runs away from this society, she is not destined to hide from herself, from remorse. To some extent, perhaps, Boris also understands this and says that “there is only one thing you need to ask God for her to die as soon as possible so that she does not suffer for a long time! One of Katerina’s problems is that “she doesn’t know how to deceive, she can’t hide anything.”

She can neither deceive nor hide from herself, much less from others. Katerina is constantly tormented by the consciousness of her sinfulness.

Translated from Greek, the name Catherine means "always pure", and our heroine, of course, always strives for spiritual purity. She is alien to any kind of lie and untruth, even when she finds herself in such a degraded society, she does not change her inner ideal, she does not want to become the same as many people of that circle. Katerina does not absorb dirt, it can be compared with a lotus flower that grows in a swamp, but, in spite of everything, blooms with unique snow-white flowers. Katerina does not live up to the lush flowering, her half-blown flower withered, but no toxic substances penetrated into it, he died innocent.

A.N. Ostrovsky entered the history of Russian culture as a great playwright, he founded the Russian National Ostrovsky Theater.
The author in his plays reveals human vices, touching on acute problems of the public. One of the brightest and most impressive plays is The Thunderstorm. It is rightly called the "Russian tragedy".
We find ourselves in the provinces, on the banks of the glorious Volga River. The contradictions that help us understand the message that the author wanted to convey to us can be traced in the love line of Katerina and Boris Grigorievich. Passion

Katerina is like "rock", it is he who emphasizes the "tragedy" of the play.
Katerina is a young and beautiful woman. By nature, she is strong and free, but in fact, problems arise with the second - she is the wife of Tikhon Kabakov. Before marriage, her life was completely different, she was "frisky", as the heroine expressed herself about herself. Previously, she was surrounded only by love, attention and care. Everything turned upside down in the girl's life when she came to the Kabakovs' house. The evil and rude Kabanikha was in charge of everything, and Tikhon (husband) was weak-willed and obedient to the point of cloying. Nobody in this world understands her. By the way, Varvara, with whom the heroine became friends, said that she was "some kind of tricky." Katerina, being a freedom-loving nature, suffers under the yoke of the "dark kingdom". Her character is extremely complicated, he is actually not understood in her new world. Katerina is the personification of the ideal world, the "dark kingdom", in turn, implies the power of demonic forces.
The girl was able to reveal herself "real" to only one person, and that was Boris. The soul of Katerina is endowed with passion, ardor. She is in the spiritual plane with God, according to her inner feelings of life.
The scene of a meeting with Boris Grigorievich is saturated with sin, as opposed to such sweet love. It was here that the decisive character of Katerina manifested itself, which casts aside any doubts and makes a deal with her own conscience and heavenly punishment. The storm is the herald of God's wrath. And, of course, at this moment all the conventions of worldly life fade before her. The heroine herself says that if she "was not afraid of sin", then will she be afraid of "human court". The apogee of the play is the public confession of the deed, the epic moment of a thunderstorm. She confessed, but did not repent. Katerina is not able to overcome the barrier - to admit her sin and renounce love.
A tragic set of circumstances: the demands of a peaceful life and Katerina's conflicting worldview can no longer coexist, which leads to the loss of a sincere desire to live. Katerina, suddenly, comes to the realization of the inexorability of the sin of suicide. However, even this did not affect her decision.
The death of Katerina symbolizes the impossibility of trying on "earthly" and "heavenly". Thus, Ostrovsky showed that such pure natures as Katerina in our "dirty" world are doomed to death.