Drama Ostrovsky, a brief summary. "Thunderstorm" by actions

The contribution of Alexander Nikolaevich Ostrovsky to Russian drama is difficult to overestimate. Evidence of recognition of his services to the national theater was the scientific title of corresponding member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences. His house hospitably opened the doors to Leo Tolstoy, Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, Peter Ivanovich Tchaikovsky. People's fame brought him the drama "Thunderstorm." The subject of this article is its summary. "Thunderstorm" on actions (and them in drama 5) takes place in the invented Volga city of Kalinov.

Action 1. Characteristics of the city of Kalinova

The first action takes place in the garden, broken on the Volga shore. Talking self-taught engineer Kuligin with the clerk of merchant Savel Prokofich Dikoy - Vanya Kudryash. Later, the educated nephew of the Wild - Boris joined them. We hear from them a capacious and impartial characterization of the order in this district town. Here the tyranny of the Wild, on the one hand, and the sanctimonious morality of the merchant Martha Ignatievna Kabanova (nicknamed Kabanikh) flourish, on the other. Wild, as it is obvious, plans to assign part of the inheritance belonging to Boris.
Rudeness and Jesuitism flourish in the city. It is preached by the most prosperous townspeople. If Savel Prokofych brazenly scorns his employees with screaming and cursing, constantly not paying them salaries, then Marfa Ignatyevna titrates her domestic ones (the daughter-in-law of Katerina, son of Tikhon and daughter Varvara) more subtly - with constant reproaches and lectures. At the same time, each of its attacks can explain Kabanikh "according to the concepts": they say, this is the way, etc. Her morals are "impenetrable". It is no coincidence that with this unflattering assessment of the foundations of the city, the "Thunderstorm" begins. The summary of the actions in the future is entirely based on this comprehensive description.

Action 2. In the house of Kabanihi

We become witnesses of the action in the house of the merchant Kabanikhi. The wanderer Feklusha talks with the courtyard girl Glasha. The holy fool praises the generosity of the Kabanovs' house and tries to interest the listeners with primitive fictions about the way of life in "distant countries". Ironically depicts the quackery of Ostrovsky's play "The Storm". The summary of the chapters shows us the real culprit of the tragedy.
The daughter of the merchant Varvara carelessly plays the role of the Vault. Her nephew Katerina liked the nephew of the Wild, Boris. Catherine's husband Tikhon goes on business. His sister, whose life convictions - "everything is possible, if the ends in the water," collecting his brother on the road, simultaneously slanders his wife, Catherine, for treason. For this, she came up with a cunning "combination" with the substitution of the mother's key from the gate.

Katerina tries in her own way to remain faithful to her husband. He asks Tikhon to take her with him. And when he refuses, then, as was the case with the people, he tries to bind himself with an oath through which he can not step over. But the narrow-minded Tikhon interrupts it here.

Step 3. Date

The meeting between Katerina and Boris is the main idea of this episode of the drama, its brief content. "Thunderstorm" for actions takes place in different places in the provincial Kalinova. You can see the street in front of the Kabanihi house. At first the drunk Savel Prokofievich "mates" with the merchant. True, "one field berries" soon reconcile. Then they are replaced by the philosophizing Kuligin, then the kissing couple - Kudryash and Varvara. Overly initiative Varya appoints Boris on behalf of Katerina a meeting near the Kabanovs' garden in the ravine. And finally, the date itself is happening. And Kudryash with Varvara and Boris and Katerina appoint him in the same place. However, then the pairs diverge. Katerina fervently admits to Boris in love. However, as you can see, that attitude towards love is mercantile, consumer. He does not understand, but most likely, he can not understand what kind of treasure is the soul of Katerina. He did not pass the test of love, a small human. Blinded by Katerina's feeling, of course, she does not notice these nuances.

Step 4: Culmination

Misconception and payment - this is the case with many dramas. "Thunderstorm" by actions brings us to its climax. It's raining, and Kalinov is in the grip of a thunderstorm. At the beginning of the action, the philistine Kuligin proves to merchant Dikiyu the necessity of settling lightning conductors in the city. But the sly miser in a boorish way offends the self-taught engineer and translates the conversation into the fact that the thunderstorm is the Lord's punishment. So, however, many people think. Trembling with lightning committed adultery Katerina. She is not reassured by Kuligin's exhortations about the nature of electricity. Sometimes what Varvara feared: frightened by the exhortations of a crazy lady, who appeared as a devil from a snuffbox, accompanied by lackeys, Katerina confesses her husband's betrayal to Tikhon. Should we expect magnanimity from him? Hardly.

Action 5. Tragedy

"Can happiness be where humiliation and hypocrisy reign?" - we are invisibly hearing the rhetorical question of the playwright, reading a brief summary. "Thunderstorm" by actions carefully draws images of the characters, giving them an exhaustive description. Drunk Tikhon is talking with Kuligin. Describes how drank drank during a trip to Moscow, that for treason "beat a little" Catherine. (So my mother told me.) I'm glad that Boris Uncle Savel Prokofich sends Boris to Siberia. From his words we learn that Varya has fled to Kudryash from the petty tyranny of Martha Ignatyevna's mother.

At this time, Katerina is looking for a meeting with Boris. Seeing him, he persuades me to take her on a trip to Siberia. After refusal, she humbly asks the young man to pray for her sinful soul. But even this does not penetrate the weak-willed young man. His last phase is deeply revealing: "Ah, if it's power!" This is a phrase of complete moral bankruptcy. Katerina does not want to return to the disgusted Kabanihi house, jumps into the Volga and drowns in it. Kuligin accuses Marfa Ignatievna and Tikhon of being unmerciful towards Katerina. Tikhon blames his mother, considering himself unhappy.

conclusions

Shocked by the power of the playwright's talent, the critic Dobrolyubov wrote a brilliant article on "The Storm" on "The Ray of Light in the Dark Realm." In it, he showed that the unfulfilled dreams of happiness in marriage, as well as the pernicious situation in the Kabanovs' house, led Catherine to commit suicide. Moreover, this act in the understanding of Dobrolyubov acquired the features of a personality protest. The critic Pisarev disagreed with him, pointing to the undeveloped mind, intuition and heightened emotionality of Katerina, which led her to a deadly sin. However, the dispute between these two prominent critics can be judged by the words of the classic Goncharov that the "good heart" is more valuable than the sophisticated mind.