Is Katerina's death accidental? Could it have been avoided? And, finally, did the heroine have a different path? There is no single answer to all these questions.
Was there another way? I think I was. Katerina could become a nun and devote herself to God, whom she loved so much. She could, of course, leave her husband, but she would cover herself with shame and take sin on her soul, because marriages, in those days, were concluded before God.
Was the death of the heroine accidental? Unlikely. Everything went to this. The endless nagging of her mother-in-law, her husband's indifference strongly influenced Katerina, tormented her soul. When Boris betrayed the girl, it was the last straw. The betrayal of a loved one broke Katerina, and she decided on a desperate act. The girl nevertheless “took off”, stepping on the high bank into the Volga, “spread her wings” and boldly fell into the abyss.
Dobrolyubov called Katerina "a ray of light in the dark kingdom." The girl tried to fight the old order in Kalinov. She won a victory, albeit sad, but still a victory. The death of Katerina served as the first impetus for the destruction of the old order and the arrival of a new generation.
Can you meet people like Katerina in our time? I suppose you can. Even in the darkest time, there is a person with a pure and open soul who is able to sacrifice himself for the benefit of others.

An essay on literature on the topic: Was there a different path for Katerina? (based on the play by A. N. Ostrovsky "The Thunderstorm")

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Was there a different path for Katerina? (based on the play by A. N. Ostrovsky "The Thunderstorm")

"The Thunderstorm" is one of the most famous plays by A. N. Ostrovsky. The popularity of the work is due to the fact that the author managed to create a completely new female image in Russian literature. Katerina, the main character of The Storm, is distinguished by her inner strength and depth. The girl became the personification of the protest against the patriarchal system - "a ray of light in the dark kingdom." But her "light" was not enough to defeat this stuffy and musty world, so everything ends with Katerina's suicide. More than 150 years have passed since the writing of the play, but the question remains open whether Katerina had a different path?

In fact, The Thunderstorm could have presented various ways out of this situation. But did they fit Katherine? Many of modern people do not understand why the heroine did not use the simplest, in their opinion, way out - divorce. But in the society of that time, marriages were ecclesiastical, and it was believed that they were concluded "in heaven", therefore divorces were very rare and were allowed, mainly, only in noble families, representatives of other estates had to live with each other all their lives until their death.

Katerina could try to get a divorce, but it most likely would not bring anything but humiliation. The happiest outcome is the escape of the girl with Boris. But her beloved turned out to be not a prince, but only a weak-willed egoist, who left Katerina alone to deal with all the problems. Another safe path for the heroine could be a monastery. She could have devoted her life to serving God, since she was very religious, but married women were not taken to monasteries, so she would have been returned to Tikhon.

The most likely scenario is the continuation of Katerina's life with her husband. But this option would be so difficult for the girl that soon she would still take her own life. A weak-willed husband, the bullying of Kabanikha and neighbors who learned about her infidelity, would gradually bring the girl to the "brink", in addition, Katerina could not live with Tikhon, remembering her betrayal and her lost love.

So, the death of Katerina was, in my opinion, the only way out of the situation. The rest of the options were not feasible or would still lead to the death of the heroine. The girl's suicide became a pattern, she could not come to terms with the state of affairs, accept her betrayal, the betrayal of her lover. Katerina made a decision that did not require compromises with the outside world and conscience and seemed to her right.

Option 2

Katerina is one of central characters plays by Alexander Nikolaevich Ostrovsky "The Thunderstorm". This is a young girl who grew up in love and worship of God. Her childhood was carefree and happy. However, the girl was married to Tikhon Kabanov, the son of Kabanikha's wayward widowed merchant wife, whom she could not love.

Katerina ends up in the city of Kalinov. Although it stands on the beautiful Volga River, almost no one notices its beauty. "Debauchery and drunkenness" reign in the city, people are divided into the unfortunate poor and the selfish rich, high fences stand near the merchant houses, behind which the merchants "tyrannize the family" and seek to "rob the orphans."

The atmosphere of the city of Kalinov with its "cruel morals", according to the city's resident - the scientist Kuligin, the way in the Kabanov family, in which the son does not dare to contradict the tyrant mother in anything - all this is alien to freedom-loving Katerina. And even faith, at least to some extent, will not be able to unite Katerina with the new environment, because their faith is completely different, not pure, not bright, but demonstrative and built on fear.

Out of hopelessness, Katerina decides to take a desperate step - she commits suicide, while knowing about the sinfulness of her act.

Was there a chance for "a ray of light in the dark kingdom", as the critic N. A. Dobrolyubov called Katerina, to stay alive, to stay shine further?

I believe that Katerina had no other choice.

Katerina needed support and support and, it would seem, could find all this in her love, in Boris. But he could not help her, like all other residents of the city, including his friend Barbara, loving Tikhon and compassionate Kuligin. The city and its inhabitants are mired in immorality and hopelessness. And secret meetings with her beloved Boris, with the last hope, contradict morality, and it is difficult for Katerina herself, not at all alleviating her fate.

Katerina commits suicide: she throws herself into the Volga. I think that under all the circumstances, the nature of Katerina, this act was the best outcome for her, because she could not continue to live "out of bondage", in sin and with an unloved husband. Suicide is the very last thing that a person can commit to himself, but Tikhon, after the death of his wife, says that he envies her. This fact further aggravates the already sad picture painted by Ostrovsky.

The drama reveals the theme of one of the most terrible sins - suicide. However, the reader, after reading the play, can within himself justify the characters living in the rigid framework of all-round control.

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Katerina Kabanova is the heroine of the drama by A.N. Ostrovsky "Thunderstorm"
A wonderful woman, married to Tikhon, a weak and weak-willed person, unable to resist the iron will, despotism of her mother, Martha Ignatievna Kabanova, who constantly mocks Katerina., Squeezes out of the white light.
The action takes place in the city of Kalinov, the "dark kingdom".
In this city live people who are not able to appreciate beauty, demanding complete submission, evil, deceitful, vile, in essence.
This is the majority.
Katerina is one of the few who can resist this.
She is a sensitive nature, alive, able to love, truly feel.
With all her being, Katya seeks to resist " cruel morals" cities.
She was happy in parental home and with great trepidation and love she treated mother "I didn’t like her in her."
"Thunderstorm" is Ostrovsky's highest achievement in the pre-reform years (1859)
The central conflict of the play, conceived as a social and everyday drama, gradually reaches true tragedy. This is due to the image of Katerina Kabanova.
Katerina is a pure, bright nature, she loves and feels life absolutely sincerely.
Books, candles, icons - the world that Katya loved. This is a person with high spirituality, spiritual purity.
It is in herself, and the rest of the world, vicious, people living in darkness, complete darkness of their own selfishness, baseness. She was too beautiful for them, for the world in which she was forced to exist.
Most of all, Katerina herself needed support, support, she is tender, fragile, like a flower, gentle, defenseless, her vulnerable soul cannot withstand rough treatment.
Previously, her mother was such a support.
Katya lived in her own little world, where she was calm, warm, comfortable.
In care, affection and love.
In marriage, she loses everything. Her old world is destroyed, and the new one is too cruel, gloomy, gloomy for her.
There is nothing in it. From her husband's side, she receives nothing but a heightened sense of loneliness. Emptiness, cold, pain.
Katya is slowly dying. Her soul is fading.
The life of a "bird in a cage" is sickening.
Fly away, run away, fly high into the heavens as a proud and free bird, not chained by foundations, traditions, which are alien to any renewal.
She needs freedom like air, but she has nothing to breathe. The only salvation is in prayers, in turning to God.
I see how Katerina, praying, recalls that cheerful, carefree and happy time when she is young, you enjoy every day, moment, second, breathe deeply and feel free, from prejudices, suffering, pain, where you are understood and loved.
Katya lives in the past, but this makes her soul groan.
He wants to be happy with her husband, to love him, but cannot.
Katya meekly tries to come to terms with the "boar manners", but the desire to be free is stronger.
Boris for the unfortunate woman is like a saving straw, she grabs at her in order to survive.
Passion captures her entirely. She plunges into a pool, she asks the Lord for help to get out of it, but she cannot overcome the temptation.
She needed the support of her husband, mother-in-law, but none of them supported her.

I think that for Katya there was a different path, without fear and reproach, and this is not suicide.
You just need to stop feeling like a victim, not looking for support and support in others, waiting for someone to come and help, but become the very support for yourself. After all, her rich inner world can give her both strength and freedom .. You just need not to run away and not look for support in Boris, as salvation, living in the past or feeling sorry for yourself.
To confront the "dark kingdom" Kalinov, Kabanikha and the Wild, to destroy all that evil that has subjugated the city.
Katerina - very strong personality but her problem is that she does not realize it.
First of all, you need to listen to yourself, your heart, soul and not depend on external circumstances, they are not able to break and conquer, I think Katerina did it herself.
His excessive impressionability, sometimes bordering on madness, his fanatical religiosity, his humility with fate, hope, faith, in someone, but not in himself.
Katya was unable to surrender to feelings for Boris, although it captured her entirely.
She could not reveal her inner potential, her amazing ability to subtly feel, love, feel harmony with nature and with God.
Katerina is a great woman, a great person.
They say about such people, "the Lord kissed."
Beautiful. Be such flowers in the life of your beloved men.
And only love, light, a "ray" of the sparkling light of the soul, coming from the depths of you, illuminates your path in any, the "darkest" kingdom. Shine for your loved ones. Be happy. And never renounce feelings, because that is exactly how Katerina did not find a way out, find the strength to treat relatives with kindness and affection, so that they also feel: you love.

The play "The Thunderstorm", which was written by Ostrovsky in 1859, is one of the most popular among the author. Such a success of the work is not surprising at all. In the drama, a completely new female image was described, which was distinguished by strength and depth. The heroine seemed to personify a protest against the stuffy and musty world, where the patriarchal way of life reigned, according to the laws of which practically all of Russia of that time lived. In fact, Katerina's actions can hardly be called a deliberate protest. The point is that “ dark kingdom”(As the world of Dobrolyubov called it) considers any movement of the soul as a challenge. The forces turned out to be unequal, and in the end it all ended in suicide of the main character. But death in the play was the beginning of Katerina's immortality. The play, like 150 years old, evokes a lively response from readers, and one of the most debated questions remains - was there a different path for Katerina?

If we analyze the situation the heroine is in, then we can consider several ways out of her at once: The path that Katerina herself dreamed of is connected with her beloved Boris. For her, such a way out of the situation would be just a fairy tale. But a bad prince came out of Boris, and this fairy tale did not come true - her chosen one turned out to be too weak in character and selfish. He leaves for Siberia without her, which finally broke Katerina.

Another option is to leave Tikhon. This path seems quite natural to modern people, but in those days, getting a divorce was accompanied by a lot of bureaucratic costs, and Katerina would have to endure all possible humiliation. This process would take a very long time. In addition, by this act, she would finally dishonor her own name and take a great sin on her soul, since then marriages were really concluded before God.

For her, her salvation could be a religious path. She would become a nun and devote herself and her whole life to God, with whom all the happy moments of childhood were connected. But a married woman would never have been taken to a monastery. If they found out that she was married, they would definitely return her husband.

The fourth option is the way in which everything would remain as it was. She would also live with Tikhon and her mother-in-law, listening to everyday insults and reproaches from the latter. But in this case, the freedom-loving and sensitive Katerina would simply go crazy soon, especially in the absence of the support of her weak-willed husband.

So, having considered all the possible options, we can conclude that the death of Katerina was natural, and she was the only possible way out for the girl. But this decision speaks, rather, not of weakness, but of the strength of her personality. She did not seek compromises with the world around her and with her conscience, but acted as her heart suggested.

The main thing actor dramas - Katerina is a young woman, daughter-in-law of Kabanikha. Katerina is a whole person, brought up by the Volga expanse. In her character, the playwright emphasized the awakening of consciousness, a sincere deep feeling of love and independence, tenderness, love for beauty and an irresistible attraction to a harmonious and happy life. These character traits do not allow her to come to terms with despotism and lies; she organically does not tolerate those pre-construction orders that contradict the natural needs of man, enters into a tragic conflict with them, wages a stubborn unequal struggle, as far as she has strength and, finally, dies in the waters of the Volga, unhappy, but not surrendering.

The image of Katerina is depicted realistically and embodies the essential character traits of a Russian woman on the eve of the liberation reform. The development of Katerina's character is so naturally and vividly presented that it accurately conveys to us the story of a terrible, tragic life that fell on the lot of a powerless woman in old tsarist Russia.

From childhood, Katerina is brought up in a spirit of religion and obedience. She was given in marriage to Tikhon Kabanov without her consent and without love. She was too young to understand this feeling. It all happened as if in a dream. She did not dare to resist her parents and decided to endure rather than cause trouble to her relatives. In the house of Kabanova, Katerina did not meet humane attitude to myself neither from the side of the husband, nor from the side of the mother-in-law. On the contrary, she was forbidden to have her own judgment, her own feeling, and in material terms she was directly dependent on her mother-in-law. Soon, she has a longing for happiness and love, a desire to find a response in the heart of a loved one.

“At night, Varya, I can't sleep,” she says, “I keep dreaming of a whisper of some sort: someone speaks to me so kindly, as if a dove is cooing. I do not dream, Varya, as before, trees of paradise, and mountains, but as if someone hugs me so hotly, warmly and leads me somewhere and I follow him, I go. "
As a child, Katerina loved to dream romantically. This romanticism was supported in her by religion and a painfully poor monotonous life. Her imagination worked tirelessly and carried her away to some poetic world. The harsh reality, the senseless ravings of the wanderers, turned with her into golden temples, extraordinary gardens. In what follows, we see how a dark and woeful life sober up her and leads to a real view. Finding herself in the dungeons of the Kabanov house, Katerina did not put up with humiliation and was eager for light, air, wanted to indulge in a dream, look at the Volga, admire nature, but she was kept in captivity, her aspirations were trampled underfoot. At first, as before, she seeks an answer and support in religion, but she no longer finds consolation in it, cannot imagine an ideal world with the same clarity.

“Some kind of dream creeps into my head. I will not leave her anywhere. I will think - I will not collect thoughts in any way, I will pray - I will not pray in any way. I babble words with my tongue, but it’s not the same on my mind: as if the evil one was whispering in my ears ”.
Katerina has matured, a real outlook on life has formed in her. She understands that the Kabanovs' house is the same prison; her husband is disgusted with her, because he is under his mother's shoe and lives an animal life without any aspirations. “How can I love you,” she bluntly declares to Tikhon. And she will say to Varvara about Tikhon: "And in the wild he seems to be bound." At first Katerina, being held captive by traditions, was afraid of new thoughts, worried about the future, tried to restrain her impulses. But the passion that gripped her turned out to be above all: she sincerely fell in love with Dikiy Boris's nephew and decided to leave Kabanova's house. She fell in love with Boris because he is not like others, humane, maybe a friend who recognizes the right human dignity after another.

The tragedy of Katerina's position is aggravated by the fact that, breaking the shackles of deceitful morality, she could not finally defeat in herself the traditions that religion and upbringing instilled in her and which paralyzed and weakened her struggle. She had been instilled with some kind of fear since childhood. Her life is filled with contradiction: now she boldly takes a new step, now she cries, she prays. For every thought she expects some kind of punishment, she is afraid; it seems to her that the storm will kill her like a criminal. This fear is supported by those around her. Feklusha frightens her with stories about the end of the world, the half-mad lady threatens her with a stick: "Everything will burn in the fire in the inextinguishable."

But the love of freedom kindles in her hatred of the world of inertia and lies. “Who is having fun in captivity? Even though I am now living, toiling, I don’t see a glimpse, ”she says. And in her actions she went so far that she could not return to her previous position. If you cannot enjoy the sun, joy, love, then she does not want to live. When they found out about her relationship with Boris and when Boris left Kalinov, Katerina tragically experienced loneliness and came to the thought of death. Here are the words the playwright conveyed her mood in the last monologue:
“Where to now? Go home? No, I'm home, what's in the grave!., What's in the grave! It's better in the grave ... There is a grave under the tree ... how nice ... But I don't even want to think about life. Live again? No, no, don't ... It's not good.! And people are disgusting to me, and the house is disgusting to me, and the walls are disgusting. "
Katerina did not want to live in slavery and chose death over life.