Among all types of work with the text of the play "Storm"(Ostrovsky) composition causes special difficulties. Probably, this is because schoolchildren do not fully understand the features of Katerina's character, the uniqueness of the time in which she lived.
Let's try to understand the matter together and, relying on the text, to interpret the image as the author wanted to show it.
A.N. Ostrovsky. "Storm". Characteristics of Catherine
The very beginning of the nineteenth century.The first acquaintance with Katerina helps to understand in what difficult situation she lives. The weak-willed, mother-fearing husband, the boar Kabanikh, who loves to humiliate people, choke and oppress Catherine. She feels her loneliness, her defenselessness, but with great love she remembers her parents' home.
Характеристика Катерины («Гроза») начинается a picture of urban mores, but continues with her memories of a house where she was loved and free, where she felt like a bird. But was it all right? After all, she was married by the decision of the family, and her parents could not fail to know how weak her husband was, how cruel his mother-in-law was.
However, the girl even in the stuffy atmosphere of house constructionhas managed to retain the ability to love. He falls in love with the nephew of the merchant Wild. But the nature of Katerina is so strong, and she herself is so pure that a girl even thinks afraid of betraying her husband.
Characteristics of Catherine ("Storm") bright spotstands out against the background of other heroes. Weak, weak-willed, satisfied with the fact that Tikhon, escaping from his mother's control, is lying about the circumstances of Varvara - each of them in his own way struggles with unbearable and inhuman mores.
And only Katerina is fighting.
First with you. She does not even want to hear about a meeting with Boris at first. Trying to "keep himself", he begs Tikhon to take her with him. Then she rebels against an inhuman society.
Characteristics of Caterina ("Thunderstorm") is built onthat the girl is opposed to all the characters. She does not run secretly to the party, as does the sly Varvara, she is not afraid of Kabanikhi, as her son does.
The strength of Catherine's character is not that sheshe fell in love, but in the fact that she dared to do it. And in that, having failed to keep its purity before God, she dared to accept death in defiance of human and divine laws.
Characteristics of Catherine ("Thunderstorm") was createdOstrovsky is not a description of the features of her nature, but of the deeds that the girl did. She was pure and honest, but boundlessly lonely and infinitely loving Boris, she wanted to admit her love to the entire Kalinovka society. He knew that she could wait, but she was not afraid of any human rumor or mockery that would necessarily follow her confession.
But the tragedy of the heroine is that no one elsedoes not turn out to be so strong. Boris throws it, preferring an ephemeral legacy. Varvara does not understand why she confessed: she would walk herself quietly. The husband can only cry over the corpse, saying "you are happy, Katya".
The image of Katerina, created by Ostrovsky - is an excellent example of an awakening personality, which tries to escape from the sticky networks of the patriarchal way of life.
