Characteristic of Barbara from the play "The Thunderstorm" Ostrovsky

The nominal "dark kingdom" first appearedin an article-review of Nikolai Dobrolyubov on the play "The Storm" by Alexander Ostrovsky. The playwright, being a Russian in spirit, presented in his work a deep and vivid description of the problems of Russian society at the end of the eighteenth century. His work became a worthy continuation of the traditions of the Russian national theater, laid down by Gogol, Griboyedov, Fonvizin.

The characters of Ostrovsky's drama are recognizable andloved by the people, they became nominal: as the main positive - Katerina Kabanova, and negative, feeding on their greed and hatred of people "dark kingdom" - merchant Marfa Ignatyevna Kabanova and merchant Saveliy Prokopyich Wild.

Brief characteristic of the Barbara

However, the brilliant playwrightthe whole gallery of characteristic secondary images. They also participate in the action, form the plot. This article is devoted to one of them. Characteristic Varvara from the play "Storm" is represented by Ostrovsky quite full and rich. She is 18 years old. Her name is Kabanova, she is the daughter of the widowed merchant Marfa Ignatyevna. She has a senior married brother - Tikhon. She is intelligent, well-oriented in people. Has its own ideas about the surrounding reality. Like his brother, he does not fall under anyone's influence. He does not go into conflict (he is more expensive himself). He prefers to hide his thoughts and actions. At the same time, she is determined and achieves her plans. This article is devoted to this character.

Computability is the defining feature

After reading the above lines,create the impression that it is a positive character. However, the characterization of Varvara from the play "Thunderstorm" determines the main thrust of her personality, not at all as spirituality and not as a desire for beauty, for a new one. The essence of Varvara Kabanova is the calculation.

She, having calculated the situation when it is profitable, can make both a good deed and a bad one. The measure is only her common sense, allowing the commission of meanness of self-interest.

Varvara is a mentally disabled person

Characteristic Varvara from the play "Thunderstorm" gives usthe reason to argue that the "dark kingdom" left an indelible pernicious trace on her personality. This young girl inside is already firmly established lackey essence. Formed entirely type of adaptation. If necessary, she will remain silent and pretend that she agrees with who is stronger. Her position will be with her. These are unwritten rules, according to which the majority of Kalinov's population lives. Her life principle is to create what she likes, hiding it.

Non-optimistic autobiographical characteristicBarbarians from the play "Thunderstorm": she herself believes that the surrounding world has forever destroyed her purity and honesty. She learned to lie always and in everything. He considers it to be the correct line of conduct "that everything be shit and closed." The young girl no longer cherishes the hopes for romance in life, for meeting love ... She just lives for her own pleasure. Secretly meets with Kudryash, the clerk of the merchant Dikoy ("What a hunt to dry somewhere! ..").

However, she knows that he also does not have special feelings for her.

Myself on my mind

Often classics give an ambiguousCharacteristics of the hero. Varvara ("Storm", Ostrovsky AN) acts as a neutral type: not positive and not negative. Unlike the suffering Katerina, she understands that in the world around her of the "dark kingdom" no one shows mercy to one another. Therefore it is reasonable not to take seriously any rules or orders. The girl was completely assimilated to the endless teachings of her mother, simply passing them by the ears.

Speech characteristic

The playwright Alexander Ostrovsky created an interesting,a characteristic image, not like an ordinary statistician ... Quite unique is the speech characteristic of Varvara from the play "Storm". Discussion of neighbors, brief assessments of events ... Behind all this, there is a strong everyday common sense. Her phrases are short and reflect her cold, practical, mundane mind.

Cursing everyone and all the crazy lady, up todeath frightened the unhappy Katerina, she reasonably answers: "On your head ..." About her brother she has no illusions, despite the close relationship. In fact, the brother and sister are completely foreign people. Tikhon, in a conversation with Katerina, she gives a suicidal description, claiming that he does not have a future: only he will escape from the influence of his mother, then he will drink.

At the same time, the poverty of the inner world,the landed interests of Barbara are expressed in her speech. It is not filled with folk poetry. She can not, like Katerina, exclaim: "Why do not people fly like birds?"

The fateful role of the Barbarians in the life of Catherine

Accustomed and accustomed to the "dark kingdom"Varvara sympathizes with the daughter-in-law Katerina, tormented by the merchant Kabanikh and her unsupported husband-indifferent to everything and trampled down morally by Tikhon. When a young woman Katerina exclaimed that she wants to feel life, joy, the daughter of a merchant knows this in her own way.

As we have already mentioned, characterization of the image(Varvara) in the drama "Thunderstorm" is not distinguished by high moral principles. Growing up in an atmosphere of hypocrisy and deceit, she considers it normal if the sister-in-law changes her brother. She does not think that this is a family shame.

In order to diversify the life of Katerina,sympathizing with her, Varenka arranges a meeting with Boris, the nephew of the merchant Wild. At the same time, without even suspecting that treason will inflict a deep moral trauma on a young woman and place her under the merciless blow of the "dark kingdom".

Conclusion

Characteristic of the Barbarian from Ostrovsky's play"Thunderstorm" enriches the gallery of classical female images in Russian literature. Created by the playwright the type of the girl is characteristic for the merchant-philistine class of the end of the XVIII - the beginning of the XIX century. Not literate, but clever. Sane and prudent. Despising social conventions. She left the house after suicide of a sister-in-law with a lover Kudryash. She knows how to lie and spin intrigues.

Who from it will turn out: the new Kabanikha or the woman preferring a life free from oppression? Every reader of the drama "Thunderstorm" will be able to imagine it in his own way ...