Does Boris love Katerina? Last date Katerina and Boris

Lesson topic: "Who is to blame for the death of Katerina?" (Katerina's love in A.N. Ostrovsky's play "Thunderstorm")

The purpose of the lesson:- analyze the image of the heroine; understand why she decided to love Boris, what this love led to.

Finding out Katerina's suicide is strength or weakness.

Find out the character traits of Katerina, why she cannot live according to the laws of the "dark kingdom".

Learn to do text research.

Learn to express your opinion.

Lesson Form: dispute.

Methodical methods: conversation with analysis of episodes, student reports, musical accompaniment, use of film and illustrations .

Equipment: A.N. Ostrovsky's play "Thunderstorm", illustrations for the play, portraits of actresses who played Katerina, film "Thunderstorm", musical accompaniment, poems by A. Dementiev and P. Vegin .

During the classes:

Organizing time.

Organization of the group to work, mark the absent.

Presentation of the topic and objectives of the lesson.

Love is stronger than death, stronger than fear of death.

(I.S. Turgenev)

Music sounds: romance "Under the caress of a plush blanket" - 2min 35 sec.

What kind of love is sung in the romance? (love is self-sacrifice that leads to death).

The main character of the play "Thunderstorm" love also led to death.

The topic of our lesson is “Do not tempt me by loving!” (Katerina's love in A.N. Ostrovsky's play "Thunderstorm")

The epigraph of the lesson: "Love is stronger than death, stronger than the fear of death."

How do you understand these words?

When a person loves, he is ready for anything, ready to sacrifice himself for the sake of his beloved, ready to perform a feat in the name of love. The main character of the play, Katerina, is ready to sacrifice a lot in the name of love, even her principles, she rushes into the pool, not being afraid of God's punishment.

We must figure out why Katerina decided to love Boris, why Katerina committed suicide, Katerina's death - victory or defeat, identify Katerina's character traits, why she cannot live according to the laws of the "dark kingdom", what are the origins of Katerina's character. We conduct the lesson in the form of a debate, in which you must express your opinion - Katerina's love - is it weakness or strength? Katerina's suicide - is it victory or defeat? Can this be called Katerina's protest against the "dark kingdom"? During the lesson, each of you should form your own opinion on this matter, which you will express during the debate.

Implementation of homework.

To better understand the image of Katerina and its incompatibility with the norm and morality of the "dark kingdom", let's recall the previous lesson, the life and customs of the city of Kalinov, having completed the tasks.

Assignments: “Do you know the play“ Thunderstorm ”(Handout)

Students read the question and answer it orally

Homework question: Which of the heroes of the play does not belong to either the "victims" or the "owners" of the city of Kalinov? (Katerina Kabanova). Why? (She does not subordinate anyone to herself and does not know how to obey herself)

new material.

1) Character traits of Katerina.

Katerina - the main character of Ostrovsky's play, does not obey the "masters" of life (Kabanikha and Diky), the laws of the dark kingdom are alien to her, she lives as her conscience tells her. The names of the heroes have a symbolic meaning: Katerina - Greek. "purity", "decency"; but the name of Kabanikhi - Martha - Greek. “mistress”, “mistress”, this is how she feels herself in the play; the daughter of Kabanikhi - Barbara - from the Greek "foreign", "rude". Such Katerina by virtue of her character.

What character traits appear from the very first remarks of Katerina? (read out remarks) - inability to be hypocritical, directness.

Already from the very first remarks of Katerina, a conflict is felt.

Where did such character traits of Katerina come from, if the city of Kalinov lives according to other principles? (upbringing in childhood, in the home)

Let's compare Katerina's life in the house of Kabanikh and in the house of her parents.

At the parents' house:

- “like a bird in the wild”

- "mother did not have a soul in her"

- "not forced to work"

- “Embroidered, went to church, walked”

In the house of her parents, Katerina felt the cordial attitude of her relatives, relative freedom, listened to the stories of wanderers, pilgrims, attended church. Hence Katerina's painful impressionability and romantic attitude to life.

In the Kabanikhi's house:

- "withered like a flower"

- "out of love they scold you"

- "everything is forced"

- "I will not be afraid, you and even more so"

In the house of Kabanova, Katerina experienced a cruel relationship with her mother-in-law, which caused a constant spiritual rebellion, and Tikhon did not understand Katerina. And he lived on the orders of Kabanikhi.

The influence of life at the Kabanovs on Katerina:

A) Awareness of one's doom

B) Closure, disappointment in family life.

C) Passionate desire for freedom, love, happiness.

Now let's find out the character traits of the main character and what is her conflict with others?

Katerina's character traits - the principles of life in the Kabanikh's house

Freedom - submission

Independence - giving up one's will

Self-esteem - humiliation by reproaches and suspicions

Dreaminess and poetry - lack of spiritual principles

Religiosity - religious hypocrisy

Decisiveness - not to let live according to one's own will (bondage)

Kindness, disinterestedness - rudeness and abuse

Honesty, spontaneity - deceit

Conclusion: For Katerina, the main thing is to live according to your soul, and for Kabanikha, the main thing is to subdue and not let you live in your own way. Here there is a sharp contrast - an irreconcilable conflict follows.

What is your opinion on the question: How does Katerina differ from the inhabitants of the city of Kalinov? (spontaneity, kindness, sincerity, honesty, etc.)

Is Katerina's striving for freedom a protest or a state of mind? (Students' opinions)

2) Is Katerina's love for Boris a protest or a sincere feeling?

Love is the driving force behind the story. What is love? Definition according to Ozhegov's dictionary (Love of children, parents, friends, high feeling)

1) all the characters talk about love, especially Katerina.

2) We are talking about different love (love of parents, friendship, sons

and about love as a high spiritual feeling.)

3) The first and last lines about love belong to Katerina.

4) In 4.D, where the scene of Katerina's repentance is described - there are no replicas with the word "love" at all

Is Katerina's tragedy a tragedy of love or conscience?

A. Dementiev's poem "The soul does not want change"

Love is not only uplifting.

Love sometimes destroys us.

Breaks destinies and hearts...

Beautiful in her desires

She can be so dangerous

Like an explosion, like nine grams of lead.

She bursts in suddenly.

And you can't tomorrow

Don't see a pretty face.

Love is not only uplifting.

Love rules and decides everything.

And we go into this captivity.

And we do not dream of freedom.

While the dawn in the soul rises,

The soul does not want change.

So Katerina's love is not only an exalted feeling, but a destructive feeling, which played a fatal role in her fate, led the heroine to death. Cases of suicide in the patriarchal merchant world were not isolated - we will see this from the history of the creation of the play "Thunderstorm" (student report)

“On the instructions of His Imperial Highness, General-Admiral, Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich, prominent Russian writers who already had travel experience and a taste for essay prose were sent around the country for new materials for the Marine Collection. They had to study and describe the folk crafts associated with the sea, lakes and rivers, the methods of local shipbuilding and navigation, the situation of domestic fisheries and the very state of Russia's waterways.

Ostrovsky got the Upper Volga from its source to Nizhny Novgorod. And he got down to business with passion.”

“In the old dispute of the Volga cities about which of them, by the will of Ostrovsky, was turned into Kalinov (the scene of the play “Thunderstorm”), arguments in favor of Kineshma, Tver, Kostroma are most often heard. The debaters seemed to forget about Rzhev, but meanwhile it was Rzhev who was clearly involved in the birth of the mysterious idea of \u200b\u200bthe Thunderstorm!

Where the Thunderstorm was written - at a dacha near Moscow or in Zavolzhsky Shchelykovo - is not exactly known, but it was created with amazing speed, truly by inspiration, in a few months of 1859.

For quite a long time, it was believed that Ostrovsky took the plot of The Thunderstorm from the life of the Kostroma merchants, that it was based on the Klykov case, which was sensational in Kostroma at the end of the summer of 1859. Until the beginning of the 20th century, Kostroma residents proudly pointed to the place of Katerina's suicide - a gazebo at the end of a small boulevard, in those years literally hanging over the Volga. They also showed the house where she lived - next to the Church of the Assumption. And the code "Thunderstorm" for the first time was on the stage of the Kostroma Theater, the artists made up "under the Klykovs".

Kostroma local historians then thoroughly examined the Klykovo case in the archive and, with documents in their hands, came to the conclusion that it was this story that Ostrovsky used in his work on Thunderstorm. The coincidences were almost literal. A.P. Klykova was extradited at the age of sixteen to a gloomy and unsociable merchant family, consisting of old parents, a son and an unmarried daughter. The mistress of the house, severe and obstinate, depersonalized her husband and children with her despotism. She forced her young daughter-in-law to do any menial work, refused her requests to see her relatives.

At the time of the drama, Klykova was 19 years old. In the past, she was brought up in love and the soul of a doting grandmother in her, she was cheerful, cheerful, lively. Now she was unkind and a stranger in the family. Her young husband, Klykov, a carefree and apathetic man, could not protect his wife from the harassment of his mother-in-law and treated her indifferently. The Klykovs had no children. And then another man stood in the way of the young woman, Maryin, who works in the post office. Began suspicions, scenes of jealousy. It ended with the fact that on November 10, 1859, the body of A.P. Klykova was found in the Volga. A long legal process began, which received wide publicity even outside the Kostroma province, and none of the Kostroma residents doubted that Ostrovsky had used the materials of this case in Groz.

Many decades passed before the researchers of Ostrovsky’s work established for sure that The Thunderstorm was written before the Kostroma merchant Klykova rushed into the Volga. Ostrovsky began work on The Thunderstorm in June-July 1859 and finished on October 9 of the same year.

It can be concluded that such cases in the merchant environment happened, so the patriarchal foundations of society did not allow them to live freely, independently, but subjugated, enslaved. A woman could not love the one she wants, they married not for love, and she had to come to terms with her fate.

Katerina Kabanova did not reconcile herself, as did A.P. Klykova.

Reading the dialogue of Katerina and Barbara (D.2, yavl. 2)

Who did Katerina love?

Why does Varvara guess about Katerina's love?

What can be said about the principles of the Kabanovs' house? How has Barbara adapted?

Katerina fell in love with Boris, but Katerina's conscience, her religiosity does not allow her to transgress the moral law - to cheat on her husband. Katerina's torment was noticed by Varvara, who adapted to the laws of the "dark kingdom", learned to deceive and, secretly from her mother, meets her beloved Curly. It is Varvara who arranges a meeting between Katerina and Boris when Tikhon leaves on business.

Analysis of the scene "Seeing Tikhon" D2, yavl.3,4,5.

(Reading by role)

How do the characters behave in this scene, how does this characterize them?

What is the significance of this scene in the development of events?

(In this scene, the despotism of Kabanikha is revealed to the extreme, Tikhon's complete inability to not only protect but also understand Katerina is revealed. This scene explains Katerina's decision to go on a date with Boris.)

How does Tikhon behave before leaving?

(In order to understand Tikhon’s state of mind before leaving, one must clearly understand his position in his mother’s house, his desire to be freed from guardianship for at least two weeks. With a sense of relief, Tikhon utters his line: “Yes, sir, it’s time.” But it turns out that not yet everything.Mother demands that he instruct Katerina how to live without him.Tikhon realizes that by doing his mother's will, he humiliates his wife.

When Kabanikh's instructions become completely offensive, Tikhon tries to object to the bullying of Katerina, but his mother is adamant, and he quietly, embarrassed, as if apologizing to his wife, says: "Don't look at the guys!" The goal of the Kabanikha is to bring to the complete obedience of the household and, above all, the wayward Katerina)

Analysis of a monologue with a key. D 2, yavl.10.

Let's try to understand why Katerina fell in love with Boris?

We will find the answer in Dobrolyubov's article: “In this passion lies her whole life; all the strength of her nature, all her living aspirations merge here. She is attracted to Boris not only by the fact that she likes him, that he does not look like the rest of those around her, but her need for love, which has not found a response in her husband, and the offended feeling of his wife and woman, and the mortal anguish of her monotonous life, and the desire for freedom, space, hot, unrestricted freedom.

Reading a monologue. (student reads)

What feelings does Katerina experience, how are these feelings reflected in her speech? What is the meaning of the scene?

(Here, the victory of Katerina’s natural feeling over the dogmas of house building is revealed. Katerina’s speech is full of short, abrupt interrogative and exclamatory sentences, repetitions, comparisons that convey the tension of Katerina’s feelings.

After an excited introduction, Katerina's bitter thoughts about life in captivity follow. Speech becomes more restrained, balanced. Katerina disputes the original decision to throw the key: “What a sin if I look at it once, at least from afar! Yes, at least I’ll talk about it! .. But he himself didn’t want to. ” This part of the monologue is accompanied by remarks: after thinking, silence, reflects, looks thoughtfully at the key, characterizing the state of Katerina.

The monologue ends with a strong outburst of feelings: “I should even die, but see him…”

A love choice dooms Katerina to torment. She is dating Boris.

An excerpt from the movie "Thunderstorm" (scene "Date")

What is the complexity of Katerina's internal state?

(Katerina deceives and stands on a par with Varvara, this is not typical of Katerina's nature. The author shows the evolution of the heroine's state of mind - from confusion to the assertion of the right to love. Katerina "quietly descends the path, .. with her eyes downcast on the ground", addresses to Boris “with fright, but without raising his eyes”, “raises his eyes and looks at Boris”, “throws himself on his neck.”)

How is Katerina's struggle with herself shown in these monologues? (her monologues are tense, emotional, it is not the mind that speaks in them, but the heart.)

What is Katherine's determination expressed in? (decided on love with Boris, acted at the behest of the heart, not the law)

Conclusion: Katerina's love is a sincere feeling, she is not capable of hypocrisy and pretending, she acts at the behest of her heart, violating the moral and religious law - she cheats on her husband, and Tikhon did not seek to win Katerina's love, but lived on the orders and orders of his "mother", therefore Katerina did not find support and love in him, so she is looking for it on the side.

So. Is Katerina's love a sincere feeling or a protest? (students' opinions )

Repentance of Katerina (D.4, Yavl 6)

After the arrival of her husband, Katerina “simply became on her own ... She is trembling all over, as if she were having a fever; so pale, rushing about the house, just what she was looking for. Eyes like a lunatic."

Why has there been a change in Katerina? (Katerina was religious, cheating on her husband, she committed a grave sin, she went to deceit, which is contrary to her nature, so Katerina is hard on her soul, it is easier for her to confess, repent)

Since the drama is called "Thunderstorm", the motive of the thunderstorm is present throughout the play. Let's try to figure out how the title of the play determines the actions of the main character.

What do you think the meaning of the title is?

(Thunderstorm - in nature - the motive of an impending thunderstorm is constantly heard.

A thunderstorm in Katerina's soul - disagreement with the morality of the "dark kingdom", the desire to live according to her own heart, love for Boris, leads to confusion in the soul.

A thunderstorm in society - a conflict is brewing, the unwillingness of many to live according to the norms and

house building rules, free feelings awaken in an unfree society.)

Thunderstorm in nature - refreshing

Thunderstorm in the soul - cleanses

Thunderstorm in society - enlightens.

How the inhabitants of Kalinovo perceived a thunderstorm (as a divine phenomenon. As a punishment of God, Katerina is no exception, she is afraid of a thunderstorm, following religious motives)

How is the scene of repentance motivated? (read an excerpt from the play)

(A thunderstorm is approaching, which, according to the Kalinovites, “is sent to us as a punishment.” The gloomy color is enhanced by the scene of action - instead of the panorama of the Volga - a narrow gallery with oppressive vaults. Katerina is now “unarmed.” She is hurt both by Kabanikha’s hints and Tikhon’s affectionate joke. Weasel husband, before whom she is guilty - for her torture)

What is the difference in Katerina's state of mind in D.1 and D.4?

(The difference in Katerina’s state of mind is also expressed in her exclamations after the mistress’s departure in D.1 “Oh, how she frightened me, I’m trembling all over, as if she was prophesying something to me; D.4.: “Oh, I’m dying!” Katerina waiting for God's punishment. She seeks protection from God, kneels down and sees the image of hell in front of her. Thus Ostrovsky leads to the climax of the play - the scene of repentance.)

D.4.yavl.6. - Read the passage. How does Katerina feel now?

(If the victory of love in Katerina's soul is revealed in the monologue with the key and in the meeting scene, then in the scene of repentance, the power of the norms of religious morality gravitating over Katerina is clearly revealed.)

(If Katerina hid her sin, learned to pretend and deceive, continued to go on dates with Boris, then this would mean that Katerina adapted to the surrounding society, reconciled with its moral principles, despotism)

What explains Katherine's remorse?

(Katerina’s repentance is explained not only by the fear of God’s punishment, but also by the fact that her high morality rebels against the deceit that entered her life. She said about herself: “I don’t know how to deceive, I can’t hide anything.” For Katerina's moral assessment of one's actions and thoughts is an important aspect of spiritual life, and in Katerina's public recognition one can see an attempt to atone for her guilt, severely punish herself, an attempt at moral purification.)

Could Katherine have found a way to save her soul? Why? (students' opinions)

Farewell to Boris. (D.5, Yavl 3.4)

(Reading an excerpt)

The romance "And in the end I will say" sounds

Katerina rushes into the Volga, not reconciled with the laws of the "dark kingdom".

Why Boris couldn’t save Katerina (He was a “victim” of the “dark kingdom”, lived under the influence of the Wild, and could not disobey him, obeyed him and could not, like Katerina, oppose captivity because of the fear of the “victim”)

What can be the conclusion?

Conclusion: Katerina never betrayed herself, she decided on love at the behest of her heart, she confessed to treason from an inner sense of freedom (a lie is not freedom), she says goodbye to Boris not only because of a feeling of love, but also because he suffered because of her, rushed into the Volga at the request of a free soul.

Prove that Katerina's death is a protest.

(The timid Tikhon blames his mother for the death of his wife, Varvara runs away from home)

Who will pray for the heroines who died for love?

P. Vegin's poem "Keeper of the Hearth"

You are destroying the hearth.

Blue fire is boiling

In desperate eyes

Warrior in love

What is drama to you, what is shame?

And you destroy the house

To build a temple.

The heroine of the play, destroying her family, went to love, experienced moments of happiness, built a temple of love, probably the goddess of love will pray for her soul.

Will the city of Kalinov be able to live as before after Katerina's death? (students' opinions)

Work according to the textbook (Reserve)

The role of Katerina was played by many actresses, all of them approached the interpretation of this image in different ways.

"Performers of the roles of Katerina"

1- Kositskaya

2-Fedotova

3-Strepetova

4-Yermolova

5-Tarasova

6-Kozyreva

Textbook work: How did the actresses embody the image of Katerina?

Conclusion: Diverse stage incarnations are a continuation of the controversy: is it strength or weakness? Protest or humility?

6. Critics about the play.

What is a critic to do here?

Student Message

Dobrolyubov "A Ray of Light in the Dark Kingdom"

- "Thunderstorm" is the revolutionary forces ripening in the depths of Russia

The critic noted strong, rebellious motives in the character of Katerina

In Katerina we see a protest against Kaban's notions of morality.

Katerina is a healthy person. Which found in itself the determination to end this rotten life at all costs.

D. Pisarev "Motives of Russian drama"

Katerina is a "crazy dreamer

Katerina's whole life consists of internal contradictions.

She constantly goes from one extreme to the other.

She confuses her life and the lives of others at every step.

She confuses everything, cuts the protracted knots by the most stupid means - suicide.

Apollon Grigoriev

I saw in Katerina the poetry of folk life

He noted the beauty of nature, the Volga, against which the action unfolds: “As if not an artist, but a whole people created here!”

7. Fixing.

T test task.

Lesson summary.

So, we examined in the lesson the image of the main character of Ostrovsky's play "Thunderstorm", what conclusion can be drawn about her? (strong, decisive, able to love, defend her feelings, but not able to lie, deceive, afraid of God - all this led the heroine to death)

Disassemble the diagram. (Met Zolotareva p.196) - draw a conclusion of the lesson

Submit ratings.

Lesson conclusion: Katerina is a strong personality who knew how to love, is ready to sacrifice herself in the name of love, but she is honest, sincere and therefore she is not able to pretend, deceive, i.e. live according to the laws of the "dark kingdom", she chose a way out - suicide, in order to save herself and her soul from remorse and get away from the norms and rules of the city of Kalinov.

Sounds of the romance "Love is a magical land"

9. D / s

Make a characterization of the literary hero - Katerina according to the plan (see the stand)

Wonderful and fair words were said about the play “Thunderstorm” in his letter to A.N. Ostrovsky V.P. Botkin: “You have never revealed your poetic powers as in this play ... "You took a plot that is full of poetry through and through, a plot that is impossible for someone who does not possess poetic creativity ... Katerina's love belongs to the same phenomena of a moral nature, to which world cataclysms belong in physical nature .. .".

So, Katerina is in love with Boris. After reading this line, one can only sigh: "Well, all ages are submissive to love ...", or you can think deeply, because love for Boris became a real tragedy for the heroine of "Thunderstorm", intensifying the drama that she experienced, being in the "dark realm".

Katerina is a thin, dreamy, ethical girl. This is a man of high morals, simply stuffy, artless in relations with people. She does not know how to lie, pretend, hide her feelings. She feels deeply, therefore, once she sees Boris and falls in love with him, she can no longer do anything with herself. “Do I want to think about him? she argues. I don’t think about anything, but he just stands before my eyes. For married Katerina, faithful to her husband and pious, this love becomes a real moral torture. “It’s as if I’m standing over an abyss and someone is pushing me there, but there’s nothing for me to hold on to,” she describes her condition.

Being kind, Katerina pities her husband, whom she never loved and does not love, with whom she can never be happy. He is a weak, weak-willed person who allows himself to be humiliated in front of his wife.

Boris and Katerina cannot see each other, because the married ladies are kept in Kalinovo under seven locks. Tikhon's sister, Varvara, for whom there have long been no moral barriers, is taken to solve the problem. “And I was not a liar,” she says about herself, “but I learned when it became necessary.” It is unlikely that Katerina would have been able to master this science.

At first resisting, Katerina nevertheless accepts Varvara's services. She can no longer be in a suffocating atmosphere of hypocrisy, lack of freedom, tyranny, and she cannot overcome her love. The heroine commits a great sin - she decides to meet with Boris. Fate favors this: Kabanikha sends his son out of the house. Katerina experiences the current situation painfully, but she cannot overcome it. Several meetings with Boris illuminate her life with rays of happiness, but not for long.

Boris is dependent on his uncle, the merchant Diky. He is an orphan, and his grandmother in her will ordered that Boris receive a share of the inheritance only after coming of age and only on condition of a respectful attitude towards his uncle, which is basically impossible. Not because Boris is not respectful of his elders, but because it is impossible to please a Wild, domineering, rude, shameless and cunning person. Nevertheless, Boris continues to live in his uncle's house, patiently enduring all insults. There is no strength in his character that would help him overcome circumstances.

Once in Kalinov, Boris, like Katerina, feels uncomfortable. “It hurts hard for me here, without a habit! he says. “Everyone looks at me somehow wildly, as if I’m superfluous here, as if I’m disturbing them.” Love becomes an unexpected misfortune for him. “Hunted, downtrodden,” he exclaims, “and then he foolishly decided to fall in love.”

Boris cannot overcome his feelings. “If I have fallen in love ...,” he says, revealing his secret to Kud-ryash, and does not finish the phrase, because everything is clear anyway. However, he cannot take the first step either. Barbara turns out to be much more agile than him. Boris accepts her service, but he does not know how to answer for what he has done. Punished by his uncle, he obediently goes to Siberia. At Katerina's request to take her with him, Boris refuses - he is wary of his uncle. Boris actually betrays Katerina by leaving her in this position.

The heroine is stronger than Boris. It is she, who does not know how to lie, who speaks publicly about her love. She challenges the "dark kingdom" by throwing herself into the abyss. Boris, of course, sympathizes with Katerina, but the only thing he can do to help her is to wish her death.

Ostrovsky showed Katerina as a woman who is "clogged down by the environment", but at the same time he endowed her with the positive qualities of a strong nature, capable of resisting despotism to the end. About Boris, the critic N. Dobrolyubov said that he was the same Tikhon, only "educated." "Education took away from him the strength to do dirty tricks ... but it did not give him the strength to resist the dirty tricks that others do ... ".

A play by A.N. Ostrovsky's "Thunderstorm" is rightfully considered one of the best plays in Russian drama. It touches upon important human problems that are relevant at all times: the problem of freedom, love, happiness, conscience, moral choice.
All these themes are developed in the play very accurately and psychologically subtly. Therefore, perhaps, "Thunderstorm" is still included in the repertoire of every self-respecting theater and is very popular with the public.

In the center of the play is the emotional drama of a young woman, Katerina Kabanova. The heroine was brought up in the best patriarchal traditions: love, warmth, care. Since childhood, she did not know hard work, she spent whole days embroidering and stories of wanderers. Katerina is very religious, God-fearing. The ideal of her life is a big strong family with a reliable and loving husband and children.

But Katerina's dreams were not destined to come true. Having married Tikhon Kabanov, she fell into the atmosphere of the "dark kingdom". The heroine could not take a step without the heavy, condemning look of her mother-in-law Marfa Ignatievna. All day long, doing hard work, Katerina did not hear a kind word either from her husband, who was afraid of her mother, or from Kabanikha. The heroine felt that she was suffocating in this "stuffiness and captivity."

Katerina's desire for a free and bright life was expressed in her love for Boris Grigorievich, Diky's nephew. This young man lived for a long time in a large city, was well educated and brought up. In it, for Katerina, the dream of another life, another fate was embodied.

From the moment the heroine fell in love with Boris, her soul was torn by contradictions. On the one hand, Katerina could not violate the patriarchal laws she had absorbed with her mother's milk. She strove to remain a faithful wife, a respectable woman, respected in society.
The heroine needed to feel like a person with a clear conscience and a fulfilled duty. On the other hand, life in Kalinovo became increasingly unbearable for Katerina. The only outlet for her was love for Boris. Katerina did not want to think about Boris, but she could not stop thinking about him. In the end, having made up her mind, the heroine made an appointment with her lover.

The meeting of Katerina and Boris takes place in the 3rd scene of the second scene of the third act of the play. The heroine comes on a date, covered with a large white scarf, silently stands with her eyes downcast. It is very difficult for her to cross the moral line in her soul. Katerina is frightened by the sinfulness of her act: “Go away, damned man! Do you know: after all, I will not beg for this sin, I will never beg! After all, he will lie like a stone on the soul, like a stone.

But, despite external resistance, the heroine has already decided everything for herself. She tells Boris about her betrayal of her husband as a fait accompli: “You ruined me!” Boris is at a loss: “How can I want your death when I love you more than anything in the world, more than myself!” He does not understand Katerina's tragic doubts: "Your will was for that."

This phrase becomes a turning point in the conversation of the characters. Katerina for the first time raises her eyes to Boris: “I have no will ... Now your will is over me! ..” - and throws herself on her lover's neck.

Katerina is well with Boris, but her soul is restless. The heroine wants Boris to ease her suffering, to help her calm down. She says to the young man, expecting objections: “Yes, you feel good, you are a free Cossack, and I! ..” Boris reassures Katerina in his own way: “No one will know about our love.”

But for Katerina, this is not an argument. She is not afraid of the judgment of others. The heroine knows that she herself will never forgive herself for betrayal, violation of the moral law: “Why pity me, no one is to blame - she went for it herself ... If I wasn’t afraid of sin for you, will I be afraid of human court?” Going on a date with Boris, Katerina decided: “No, I can’t live! I already know not to live.”

But the heroine will think about all this and cry later, under lock and key from her mother-in-law. In the meantime, those two weeks that her husband will be away, Katerina decided to completely devote to her lover, whom she fell in love with at first sight: “From the very first time, it seems that if you beckoned me, I would have followed you; even if you go to the ends of the world, I would follow you and not look back.

Blinded by love, the heroine does not notice that Boris is very similar to her husband Tikhon: he is just as weak and weak-willed, he also looks back at the opinions of others. The philosophy of this hero is close to the views of Varvara: "Do what you want, if only it was sewn and covered."

Boris is infatuated with Katerina, but does not love her. He does not think about what will happen to the woman after these "fun" two weeks. The main thing for him is momentary pleasure: “Oh, so we will take a walk! Time is enough."

Thus, this episode is a turning point in Katerina's life. It is on this date that she makes a choice in favor of a short, but free and happy life. The heroine is aware of all the consequences of her act: the shame that will fall on her and on the whole family of her husband, contempt and condemnation from the Kalinovites and Kabanikh, an unbearable life locked up. Katerina knows in advance that she will not be able to live with the awareness of her sinfulness, spiritual impurity. But the pursuit of happiness, love and freedom is more expensive for her. The heroine makes this choice, paying the highest price for it - her life.

Katerina and Boris in the play "Thunderstorm" are the characters at the level of which the love conflict of the work is realized. The feelings of young people were initially doomed, the love of Katerina and Boris was tragic: Katerina was married, cheating on her husband and escaping with another person was below her moral principles. The author does not talk about the first meeting of Katerina and Boris, the reader learns about it from the words of Boris: “And then I foolishly decided to fall in love. Yes, to whom? Into a woman with whom you will never even be able to talk! She goes with her husband, well, and the mother-in-law with them! Well, am I not a fool? Look around the corner and go home." It was not love, but rather falling in love at first sight. For Katya, feelings meant much more. In such a hobby, the girl saw the very real and sincere love that her heart dreamed of. Therefore, the girl, whose upbringing did not allow her husband to cheat, desperately tried to calm her heart. Katya's decision to go out to Boris's garden was fatal. After ten nights of secret rendezvous, Katerina confessed to her husband and mother-in-law that she felt for Boris. The last meeting between Katerina and Boris happened after Katya's conversation with Tikhon and Kabanikha.

Each of the characters is looking for a meeting with each other, each has a feeling that they have to say something to each other. But both are silent. And there's really nothing to talk about. I must say that before the meeting, Katya was in a kind of borderline state. Fragments of thoughts and phrases, as if Katya wants to confess something important. The idea of a terrible lynching seemed to be in the air, not yet taking clear forms, but after meeting with Boris, the decision was finally made. What happened during their conversation?

Katya still hopes that she can be happy with this person, she begins to make excuses for her actions, to apologize, to ask for forgiveness. Her question about whether he has forgotten her makes readers understand that there have been some changes in Katya's feelings. Boris answers all the remarks of the girl in a detached way, showing that he does not need anything. Katya finds out that Boris is going to Siberia. And now, the last thing the girl decides on: “will you take me with you?”

The remark once again proves Katya's strength of character, steadfastness and faith in this love. The girl desperately hopes for a positive answer. In fact, dozens of other, more important ones were focused on this issue. “Do you love me?”, “What do our feelings mean to you?”, “Am I wrong about you?” - and many others. Katya talks about herself, and Boris, at such an important moment for the girl, recalls her uncle: “I just asked my uncle for a minute, I wanted to at least say goodbye to the place where we met.”

Notice, say goodbye to the place, and not to Katya. At this moment, Katerina receives answers to all her unasked questions, finally deciding to commit suicide. It is after these words that such a sharp and painful insight comes, which the girl was so afraid of and at the same time was waiting for.

Despite this, the girl thinks about saying something important. Really important. But Boris hurries Katya, he does not have much time. The girl is silent about the fact that she has already decided to part with her life - this is a sacrifice not for Boris, but for herself. Death is not due to unhappy love (that would make everything vulgar), but because of the inability to live honestly.
There is one remarkable detail in Katerina's farewell to Boris: Boris begins to guess what Katya has in mind, wants to come closer, hug the girl. But Katherine pulls away. No, this is not an insult, not pride. Katya asks Boris to give alms to everyone who asks her to pray for her sinful soul. The girl finally releases Boris. And Boris leaves, not understanding the scale and significance of this conversation for Katya.