Lesson “The City of Kalinov and its Inhabitants” in the play “The Thunderstorm” by A.N. Ostrovsky. methodological development in literature (grade 10) on the topic. For the teacher: one of the possible options for analyzing the drama “The Thunderstorm” Why, according to the curly haired man, Kuligin is an antique eccentric

A.N. Ostrovsky, in the play “The Thunderstorm,” written in 1859, showed the life and customs of Russian provincial society of that time. He revealed the moral problems and shortcomings of this society, showing the main features of tyranny.

In his play, Ostrovsky took the action outside of family life into a wide public sphere: on a city street, in a square, in a public garden, and surrounded the main characters with representatives of different segments of the population. One such “representative” is Kuligin - a tradesman, a self-taught mechanic, who socially opposes both Dikiy and Kabanikha, because he does not accept Kalinov’s cruel morals and, according to Dobrolyubov, Kuligin, like Katerina, personifies in the “dark kingdom” another life, with different beginnings.” True, Kuligin, unlike Katerina, softens the relationship between the “dark kingdom” and its victims. He preaches more patience and submission. So, for example, when Kudryash rebuffs Dikiy, Kuligin objects: “It’s better to endure it,” and in response to Dikiy’s threats he says: “There’s nothing to do, we must submit!” And Dikoy calls Kuligin a “worm.” “Tatar”, “robber”, he wants to send this modest inventor “to the mayor” and wants to refute knowledge with wild superstition. Kuligin is not a fighter, he defends his human dignity timidly, naively referring to the authority of Lomonosov and Derzhavin. He also naively believes in the perpetum mobile, which will help downtrodden people alleviate their lot. Kuligin cares “for the common good,” he worries about the groundless fears of the townspeople, he himself is devoid of any superstitions. He is offended by the darkness and ignorance of the Kalinovites, the morals of this city. Imeeno Kuligin says: “Cruel morals, sir, in our town, cruel! In philistinism, sir, you will see nothing but rudeness and naked poverty.”

Kuligin is a kind and considerate man, he dreams of changing the lives of the Kalinovsky poor people by receiving an award for the discovery of a perpetual motion machine, but all his technical ideas are an anachronism for the 19th century. The sundial he dreams of came from antiquity, the perpetum mobile is a medieval idea, the lightning rod is a technical discovery of the 18th century. He often looks funny and eccentric. For the Kalinovites, Kuligin is something of a local holy fool.

Kuligin is very sensitive to nature, in this sense he is a subtle person. His soul rejoices at the unusually beautiful landscapes, he is ready to compose hymns to nature. For example, in order to convey to the crowd his sense of beauty and harmony, he speaks about nature in the words of Lomonovsov6 “Well, what are you afraid of, pray tell! Now every grass, every flower is rejoicing, but we are hiding, afraid, as if some kind of misfortune!.. The northern lights will light up - you should admire and marvel at the wisdom: “The dawn rises from the midnight lands”! and you are horrified and are imagining whether it’s for war or for the sea...”

Despite Kuligin’s weak protest against the “Dark Kingdom”, the meaning of his remarks and monologues is an ideological commentary on what is happening, he is still the moral judge of the Wild One, Kabanikha and all that they represent. It is not for nothing that in the last act of the play it is Kuligin who carries Katerina’s body to the banks of the Volga and utters words full of reproach:

Here's your Katerina. Her soul is no longer yours: she is now before a judge who is more merciful than you!

Kuligin is a moral judge of the “dark kingdom,” which is perhaps why some critics called him a “ray of light.”

The city of Kalinov in Ostrovsky’s play “The Thunderstorm” is a city that denies the interference in its life of innovation, progress, or anything that is contrary to the measured, unhurried flow of time in it. Everything is the same there: the younger generation is afraid of the older generation, wives are submissive to their husbands, the main entertainment is going to church and the market with one of the elders accompanying them. There have never been cars here, everyone either swears or is afraid, they sing here only at night, because the elders will not approve of this sign of will. And even more so, they will never want to help a person who wants to change this.

Changes are unacceptable; they interfere with the life that the Lord God himself gave to the blessed city of Kalinov. Big cities have long been controlled by the evil spirit, plunging them into sin and offering their devilish innovations. This is exactly the attitude that all residents of Kalinov have towards science and technology. Everything that is incomprehensible is from the devil, everything that challenges a calm existence must be destroyed or simply not allowed to proceed.

Kuligin was unlucky to be born here. He is a gifted inventor, as they say, “from God,” and he is not selfish, he is ready to work for nothing, as long as people feel good, just to show that they can live better. It is not for nothing that his surname is consonant with the surname of the famous Russian mechanic - Kulibin, by the way, who was also not fully understood, and many of his projects were never implemented, ahead of his time. Kulibin, for the most part, was forced to create what was in demand at that time: machine guns, toys with a secret, fireworks for large receptions. By the way, Kulibin wrote poetry, like his literary counterpart.

Kuligin was also ahead of his time that he would not budge in this small Volga town. His desire to help the Kalinovites runs into an obstacle - he is poor and is forced to ask for financial help from rich merchants for his projects, but no matter who he turns to, everyone drives him away. Why should anyone make life easier, pay for the common good? Dikoy even spares ten rubles for the lightning rods, although he simply cheated someone out of paying the extra ten rubles.

Kuligin wants to find a perpetuum mobile, a perpetual motion machine, and sell the invention for ten million in order to become independent and help his hometown. He wants to be needed, wants to help, change the lives of Kalinov residents for the better, but his creations are not needed, just like he himself. Who are the Kalinovites for the most part? Believers, people living according to Domostroevsky rules, whose life consists of deception in trade, bullying of households, going to church and to the market. Nobody expresses a desire to change the existing order of things.

Kuligin, a self-taught scientist, is the only person in the city of Kalinov who wants change. He sees everything and understands everything. Somehow, he does not fit into the general flow of Kalinov’s life - he sings songs during the day, looking at his beloved Volga, and his soul is fully aware of the beauty of nature, the picturesque place in which he lives. But, however, his fate is to fight the well-oiled mechanism of the merchant Kalinovsky life - and to constantly be ridiculed and rejected. He has long resigned himself to reproaches and abuse, but every day, when he meets a possible patron of the arts, he patiently explains the value of the proposed innovations.

He is an eternal supplicant, and his patience is a kind of protest against his present life. Apparently, he is of the opinion that “a drop breaks a stone,” and day after day, without being disappointed by another failure, he turns to merchants, again and again explaining the merits of the new invention.

He is an optimist, and believes that someday the hour will come; Dikoy, perhaps, will get off on the same foot, his first invention will see the light of day, and everything will go like clockwork.

He is very smart, notices everything and understands everything. Perhaps he is the only one who fully understood and justified Katerina’s action. He is sure that only God can judge her, not Kabanikha, Dikoy and others. Kuligin advised Tikhon to forgive Katerina, but Katerina decided everything herself - and committed suicide.

Katerina doesn’t know if she wants him, her search for this led her to Boris, and then she was pushed off a cliff. Kuligin, unlike her, knows that there is no way out. Only one rare patience, luck and luck. However, he is a patriot. He could find a benefactor in a big city, and he would definitely be in demand there - and he understands this. But he doesn't leave. An outlet for him is admiring his native places, he breathes fresh air from the Volga and waits for the changes that he feels with the approach of a thunderstorm.

Perhaps in his lifetime there will be changes in Kalinov. He is waiting. And he is the only one who has the moral right to condemn those who condemn Katerina. This drama is not just the drama of a traitor who committed suicide out of shame. This is the drama of all thinking people of that time, whose desire to change the world around them led them to sad consequences.

Maybe Kuligin will wait for his lucky day and will be able to change the lives of the Kalinovites for the better. But the play ends with the death of Katerina, who tried to change her life. Perhaps Ostrovsky is making it clear that a lot of patience is needed - progress will come even to Kalinov. And then Kuligin will win. He had fought unsuccessfully against ignorance and greed for too long to miss his chance. But Ostrovsky gives only a hint of this. And we can only guess.

Kuligin - character description

Kuligin is a character who partially performs the functions of an exponent of the author’s point of view and therefore is sometimes classified as a reasoning hero, which, however, seems incorrect, since in general this hero is certainly distant from the author, he is depicted as quite detached, as an unusual person, even somewhat outlandish. The list of characters says about him: “a tradesman, a self-taught watchmaker, looking for a perpetuum mobile.” The hero's surname transparently hints at a real person - I. P. Kulibin (1755-1818), whose biography was published in the journal of the historian M. P. Pogodin "Moskvityanin", where Ostrovsky collaborated.

Like Katerina, K. is a poetic and dreamy nature (for example, it is he who admires the beauty of the Trans-Volga landscape and complains that the Kalinov people are indifferent to him). He appears singing “Among the Flat Valley...”, a folk song of literary origin (to the words of A.F. Merzlyakov). This immediately emphasizes the difference between K. and other characters associated with folklore culture; he is also a bookish person, albeit with a rather archaic bookishness: He tells Boris that he writes poetry “in the old-fashioned way... He’s read a lot of Lomonosov, Derzhavin... Lomonosov was a sage, an explorer of nature...” Even the characterization of Lomonosov testifies to K.’s reading in old books: not a “scientist”, but a “sage”, “an explorer of nature.” “You are an antique, a chemist,” Kudryash tells him. “A self-taught mechanic,” corrects K. K.’s technical ideas are also a clear anachronism. The sundial that he dreams of installing on Kalinovsky Boulevard comes from antiquity. Lightning rod - technical discovery of the 18th century. If K. writes in the spirit of the classics of the 18th century, then his oral stories are sustained in even earlier stylistic traditions and resemble ancient moralizing stories and apocrypha (“and with them, sir, a trial and a case will begin, and there will be no end to the torment. They are being judged - they are judged here, but they go to the province, and there they are waiting for them, and splashing their hands with joy” - the picture of judicial red tape, vividly described by K., is reminiscent of stories about the torment of sinners and the joy of demons). All these features of the hero, of course, were given by the author in order to show his deep connection with the world of Kalinov: he is, of course, different from the Kalinovites, we can say that he is a “new” person, but only his novelty has developed here, inside this world , giving birth not only to its passionate and poetic dreamers, like Katerina, but also to its “rationalist” dreamers, its own special, home-grown scientists and humanists.

The main business of K.’s life is the dream of inventing the “perpetu mobile” and receiving a million for it from the British. He intends to spend this million on the Kalinovsky society - “jobs must be given to the philistines.” Listening to this story, Boris, who received a modern education at the Commercial Academy, remarks: “It’s a pity to disappoint him! What a good man! He dreams for himself and is happy.” However, he is hardly right. K. is truly a good person: kind, selfless, delicate and meek. But he is hardly happy: his dream constantly forces him to beg for money for his inventions, conceived for the benefit of society, and it does not even occur to society that they could be of any use, for them K. is a harmless eccentric, something kind of like a city holy fool. And the main of the possible “patrons of the arts,” Dikoy, completely attacks the inventor with abuse, once again confirming both the general opinion and Kabanikha’s own admission that he is not able to part with the money. Kuligin's passion for creativity remains unquenched; he feels sorry for his fellow countrymen, seeing their vices as the result of ignorance and poverty, but cannot help them in anything. So, the advice he gives (forgive Katerina, but never remember her sin) is obviously impossible to implement in the Kabanovs’ house, and K. hardly understands this. The advice is good and humane, because it is based on humane considerations, but it does not take into account the real participants in the drama, their characters and beliefs.

For all his hard work, the creative beginning of his personality, K. is a contemplative nature, devoid of any pressure. This is probably the only reason why the Kalinovites put up with him, despite the fact that he differs from them in everything. It seems that for the same reason it turned out to be possible to entrust him with the author’s assessment of Katerina’s action. “Here is your Katerina. Do what you want with her! Her body is here, take it; but the soul is now not yours: it is now before the Judge, who is more merciful than you!”

In 1859 A.N. Ostrovsky wrote the play “The Thunderstorm,” in which he raised the problem of the turning point in social life, the problem of changing social foundations, penetrated into the very essence of the contradictions of his time, and painted colorful images of tyrants, their way of life and morals. Two images stand in opposition to tyranny - Katerina and Kuligin. This essay is devoted to the second.

Kuligin is a tradesman, a self-taught mechanic. In the first act, in a conversation with Kudryash, he appears to us as a poetic connoisseur of nature, Kuligin admires the Volga, calls the extraordinary view a miracle. A dreamer by nature, he nevertheless understands the injustice of the system, in which everything is decided by the brute power of force and money: “Cruel morals, sir, in our city, cruel!” - he says to Boris Grigorievich: “And whoever has money, sir, tries to enslave the poor so that he can make even more money from his free labors.” Kuligin himself is not at all like that, he is virtuous and dreams of the well-being of the people: “If only I, sir, could find a mobile phone!.., I would use all the money for society...”

The next time Boris meets Kuligin is in the third act on an evening walk. Kuligin again admires nature, air, silence. At the same time, he is upset that a boulevard has been made in the city, but people don’t walk, he says that everyone’s gates have been locked for a long time and not from thieves: “... so that people don’t see how they eat their family and tyrannize their families. And what, sir, behind these castles is dark debauchery and drunkenness! Kuligin seems to be outraged by all the foundations of the “dark kingdom,” but immediately after his angry speech he says: “Well, God be with them!” as if retreating from his previous words. His protest is almost silent, and is expressed only in objections; he is not ready, like Katerina, for an open challenge. At Boris’s proposal to write poetry, Kuligin immediately exclaims: “How is it possible, sir! They will eat you, swallow you alive. I’m already getting enough, sir, for my chatter.” However, it is worth giving him credit for the persistence and at the same time politeness with which he asks Dikiy for money for materials for a sundial on the boulevard: “... for the common benefit, your lordship. Well, what does ten rubles mean to society? God be with you, Savel Prokofich! I am not doing anything rude to you, sir; You, your lordship, have a lot of strength; If only there was the will to do a good deed.”

Unfortunately, Kuligin only encounters rudeness and ignorance on the part of Dikiy. Then he tries to persuade Savely Prokofich to at least use thunderstorms, since thunderstorms are a frequent occurrence in their city. But having achieved no success, Kuligin has no choice but to leave, giving up. dreamer protest tyranny society

Kuligin is a man of science who respects nature and subtly senses its beauty. In the fourth act, he addresses the crowd with a monologue, trying to explain to people that there is no need to be afraid of thunderstorms and other natural phenomena, on the contrary, they need to be admired and admired: “This is not a thunderstorm, but grace!.. one should admire and marvel at the wisdom... “But people don’t want to listen to him; all of them, according to old customs, continue to believe that all this is a disaster, that this is God’s punishment.

Kuligin has a good understanding of people, is capable of empathy and can give correct, practical advice - he showed all these qualities perfectly in a conversation with Tikhon: “You would forgive her, but never remember her... She would be a good wife for you, sir; look - it’s better than anyone else... It’s time for you, sir, to live with your own mind... You need to forgive your enemies, sir!”

It was Kuligin who pulled the dead Katerina out of the water and brought her to Kabanov: “Here is your Katerina. Do with her what you want! Her body is here, take it; but the soul is now not yours; it is now before the Judge, who is more merciful than you!” After these words, Kuligin runs away; he experiences this grief in his own way and is unable to share it with the people who are responsible for the poor girl’s suicide.

Personally, I really like the image of Kuligin. He is like a kind of black sheep in the city of Kalinov, sharply different from the rest of the inhabitants in his way of thinking, reasoning, values, and aspirations. Kuligin realizes the injustice of the foundations of the “dark kingdom”, tries to fight them, dreams of improving the lives of ordinary people. He thinks about the social reconstruction of the city. And perhaps, if Kuligin had found at least a few like-minded people and material support, he would have been able to significantly change Kalinov for the better. This is what I like most about Kuligin - his desire for the well-being of the people.

In the literature of the classical period, each character in a particular work performs a special function; the image was introduced for a reason. This applies to both main and secondary characters. The same principles apply in dramatic works. For example, through the image of Molchalin in Griboyedov’s comedy “Woe from Wit” the falsity and stupidity of the noble society of the 19th century is shown. But for Ostrovsky, the image of Kuligin in the play “The Thunderstorm” performs slightly different functions. When analyzing the characters in The Thunderstorm, this hero should be given special attention. The playwright gave Kuligin from “The Thunderstorm” a more than memorable characterization.

Kuligin is not at all as simple a character as he might seem at first glance. The characterization of Kuligin in “The Thunderstorm” is a little reminiscent of the characterization of the Master from Bulgakov’s novel. These are dreamy natures, for whom the end result will not be happiness. Happiness for them is the path to this result.

Kuligin is different from Dikiy and Kabanikha, from Boris and Tikhon, even from Katerina. Kuligin's role in the play "The Thunderstorm" is somewhat different. From the author's definition in the list of characters, the reader learns that Kuligin is a self-taught mechanic. That is, I learned everything myself. The image and characterization of Kuligin in “The Thunderstorm” is supplemented by phrases from the remarks of other characters. Kuligin is 50 years old. In addition to his passion for mechanics, one can confidently speak about a high level of general erudition. He quotes Derzhavin and Lomonosov, which means he has read their works, in addition, one can talk about worldly wisdom: it is Kuligin who advises Tikhon to live by his own mind, getting rid of the influence of his mother. Kuligin has many positive qualities. He is conscientious, as evidenced by his desire to earn an honest living; his selflessness and sincerity are manifested in conversations with Tikhon and Boris. By the way, his style of communication differs from the habits of other residents of Kalinov. Kuligin gives advice, not orders. He doesn’t have at all that causeless animal cruelty and anger that Wild and Kabaniha have. And there is no hypocrisy, like Boris’s, in Kuligin either. The mechanic is distinguished from Tikhon by the desire to do something, and from Katerina by the absence of active protest.

We meet Kuligin on the banks of the Volga, he is fascinated by the uniqueness of nature. Kuligin admires how everything breathes life and beauty: “miracles, truly, it must be said, miracles! Curly! Here, my brother, for fifty years I’ve been looking across the Volga every day and I can’t get enough of it.” This phrase reveals the lyricism that fills Kuligin’s soul. But what next?

In the following actions, Kuligin talks about the “cruel morals” of the city of Kalinov. It’s as if he’s a tour guide saying: “look to the left, there, behind closed doors, there are many examples of family tyranny. But here, a little further, you can see how a greedy merchant deceives ordinary people and is rude to the mayor.” Indeed, in essence, if we ignore the pompous words and expressions, Kuligin is giving Boris something like a tour about the life and customs of the city. At the same time, Kuligin himself behaves somewhat distantly. A man knows about how people live, he doesn’t like this way of existence, but at the same time he himself is not going to change anything. Kuligin is incapable of active protest, which Katerina is capable of. Kuligin also cannot adapt and lie like Varvara. One gets the impression that Kuligin is not at all concerned about Dikiy’s rudeness and threats. The episode with the beginning of the thunderstorm is a clear confirmation of this. Kuligin does not understand the fear of an ordinary natural phenomenon, so he suggests installing a lightning rod:

“Savel Prokofich, after all, this, your lordship, will benefit all ordinary people in general.
Wild. Go away! What a benefit! Who needs this benefit?
Kuligin. Yes, at least for you, your lordship, Savel Prokofich.”

Kuligin continues to insist on his own even after the merchant’s words that Kuligin can be “crushed like a worm.”

What aspects of character does this dialogue reveal? Firstly, Kuligin stands up for the common good. The lightning rod will be useful to the residents of the city, but from a different point of view it will allow the mechanic to realize some of his ideas. Secondly, in order to convince the merchant of the benefits of such a structure, Kuligin fawns and behaves in the same way as those who came to ask Dikiy for money.

One more feature is important for characterizing Kuligin from the play “The Thunderstorm”: his dreaminess. After a conversation with Kuligin, Boris understands that all the mechanic’s dreams about the Perpetu-mobile and other inventions are destined to remain just dreams. Kuligin needs to constantly be in search, fantasize about chimeras and the benefits that mechanisms can bring to society. It is difficult to imagine this character as a great or recognized inventor, if only because Kuligin is already 50 years old. That is, all this time, all his life, he studied mechanics on his own, but so far he has not achieved anything special. The image of Kuligin in “The Thunderstorm” cannot exist without connection with inventions and dreams about them. That is, without all these thoughts, Kuligin will simply lose his inner originality.
It turned out that people don’t need his work; the Kalinovites don’t see any practical use in his inventions. You can look at the situation with lightning rod and electricity differently. Kuligin wants to bring light to the “dark kingdom,” but its inhabitants deliberately refuse enlightenment and progress.

There is an opinion that in the image of Kuligin from the play “The Thunderstorm,” Ostrovsky wanted to show the sad situation of educated people of the 19th century, forced to live and survive in an atmosphere of outdated patriarchal orders.

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Kuligin - character description

Kuligin is a character who partially performs the functions of an exponent of the author’s point of view and therefore is sometimes classified as a reasoning hero, which, however, seems incorrect, since in general this hero is certainly distant from the author, he is depicted as quite detached, as an unusual person, even somewhat outlandish. The list of characters says about him: “a tradesman, a self-taught watchmaker, looking for a perpetuum mobile.” The hero's surname transparently hints at a real person - I. P. Kulibin (1755-1818), whose biography was published in the journal of the historian M. P. Pogodin "Moskvityanin", where Ostrovsky collaborated.

Like Katerina, K. is a poetic and dreamy nature (for example, it is he who admires the beauty of the Trans-Volga landscape and complains that the Kalinov people are indifferent to him). He appears singing “Among the Flat Valley...”, a folk song of literary origin (to the words of A.F. Merzlyakov). This immediately emphasizes the difference between K. and other characters associated with folklore culture; he is also a bookish person, albeit with a rather archaic bookishness: He tells Boris that he writes poetry “in the old-fashioned way... He’s read a lot of Lomonosov, Derzhavin... Lomonosov was a sage, an explorer of nature...” Even the characterization of Lomonosov testifies to K.’s reading in old books: not a “scientist”, but a “sage”, “an explorer of nature.” “You are an antique, a chemist,” Kudryash tells him. “A self-taught mechanic,” corrects K. K.’s technical ideas are also a clear anachronism. The sundial that he dreams of installing on Kalinovsky Boulevard comes from antiquity. Lightning rod - technical discovery of the 18th century. If K. writes in the spirit of the classics of the 18th century, then his oral stories are sustained in even earlier stylistic traditions and resemble ancient moralizing stories and apocrypha (“and with them, sir, a trial and a case will begin, and there will be no end to the torment. They are being judged - they are judged here, but they go to the province, and there they are waiting for them, and splashing their hands with joy” - the picture of judicial red tape, vividly described by K., is reminiscent of stories about the torment of sinners and the joy of demons). All these features of the hero, of course, were given by the author in order to show his deep connection with the world of Kalinov: he is, of course, different from the Kalinovites, we can say that he is a “new” person, but only his novelty has developed here, inside this world , giving birth not only to its passionate and poetic dreamers, like Katerina, but also to its “rationalist” dreamers, its own special, home-grown scientists and humanists.

The main business of K.’s life is the dream of inventing the “perpetu mobile” and receiving a million for it from the British. He intends to spend this million on the Kalinovsky society - “jobs must be given to the philistines.” Listening to this story, Boris, who received a modern education at the Commercial Academy, remarks: “It’s a pity to disappoint him! What a good man! He dreams for himself and is happy.” However, he is hardly right. K. is truly a good person: kind, selfless, delicate and meek. But he is hardly happy: his dream constantly forces him to beg for money for his inventions, conceived for the benefit of society, and it does not even occur to society that they could be of any use, for them K. is a harmless eccentric, something kind of like a city holy fool. And the main of the possible “patrons of the arts,” Dikoy, completely attacks the inventor with abuse, once again confirming both the general opinion and Kabanikha’s own admission that he is not able to part with the money. Kuligin's passion for creativity remains unquenched; he feels sorry for his fellow countrymen, seeing their vices as the result of ignorance and poverty, but cannot help them in anything. So, the advice he gives (forgive Katerina, but never remember her sin) is obviously impossible to implement in the Kabanovs’ house, and K. hardly understands this. The advice is good and humane, because it is based on humane considerations, but it does not take into account the real participants in the drama, their characters and beliefs.

For all his hard work, the creative beginning of his personality, K. is a contemplative nature, devoid of any pressure. This is probably the only reason why the Kalinovites put up with him, despite the fact that he differs from them in everything. It seems that for the same reason it turned out to be possible to entrust him with the author’s assessment of Katerina’s action. “Here is your Katerina. Do what you want with her! Her body is here, take it; but the soul is now not yours: it is now before the Judge, who is more merciful than you!”

The play “The Thunderstorm” is the most significant work of A. N. Ostrovsky. In it, he raises the most vital questions of his time and exposes colorful characters to the reader's judgment.

The list of characters in "The Thunderstorm" is small. These are the Kabanovs and the inhabitants of their house: the family of Wild Vanya Kudryash, Shapkin, Kuligin and several minor characters.

Kuligin occupies a special place among the heroes. The reader meets him at the very beginning of the play. Kuligin's image immediately attracts the reader's attention.

Kuligin is a tradesman, a self-taught watchmaker, but he knows how to feel beauty, he is poetic. Looking at the Volga, the hero exclaims with ecstasy: “The view is extraordinary! Beauty!”, and the fact that he has been contemplating the Volga every day for fifty years does not prevent him from enjoying its beauties. Kudryash calls Kuligin an antique, that is, a rare, extraordinary person. For the city of Kalinov, this hero is truly an exceptional phenomenon. He compares favorably with many characters in the play, who are unlikely to ever appreciate the same beauty of the Volga landscape.

His monologues are of great importance for revealing Kuligin’s character. Kuligin angrily attacks Kalinov's order. His words about disdain for the poor people, about the cruel deception of honest workers, about squabbles between merchants who seek to harm a competitor by any means are filled with bitterness. The hero cruelly ridicules the inferiority of the inner world of the Kalinovsky inhabitants, who go out onto the boulevard for only one purpose: “to show off their outfits.” Kuligin does not spare tyrants either: “They eat their own family and hurt their family.” According to the hero, the main goal of the life of the Kalinovsky tyrant is “to rob orphans, relatives, nephews, to beat up his family so that they don’t dare say a word about anything he does there.”

Kuligin has poetic talent. For him, the undoubted authority is Lomonosov, who came from the common people and through work and diligence paved his way to great discoveries. Kuligin is well-read. He can put his thoughts into poetic form. It's just that he lacks courage. “They will eat you, they will swallow you alive,” he says.

Kuligin sees great potential in the people. He appreciates his skill and regrets that the philistines “have hands, but nothing to work with.”

The hero is looking for a perpetuum mobile, but no one in Kalinov understands his aspirations, no one wants to support him. Kuligin passionately describes to Di-Koma all the benefits that his ideas can bring. He is trying to convince those who rip off the last penny from their workers of the need to donate a certain amount “for society.” The hero does not see that for Dikiy this is all “nonsense”, and Kuligin himself is nothing more than a worm who can be pardoned or crushed. Kuligin believes in achieving his goals, he hopes for a miracle, that in the “dark kingdom” there will still be at least one “living” soul.

Boris turns out to be much more perspicacious than Kuligin, who in response to the hero’s words only sighs: “It’s a pity to disappoint him!”

In vain does the hero try to explain to the “dark” Kalinovites the “grace” of a thunderstorm, and the beauty of the northern lights, and the beauty of moving comets. He quotes Lomonosov to them, throws precious beads in all directions, not realizing that all this is in vain.

Kuligin says to Tikhon, Kabanova’s son, that his mother is “too cool,” and Katerina is “better than anyone,” and that at his age it’s time to “live with your own mind.”

Kuligin has a kind heart. He tells the disappointed Tikhon that enemies must be forgiven, and having found Katerina dead, he throws words about their unmercifulness towards her into the Kabanovs’ faces.

According to N. Dobrolyubov, it was still impossible to rely on the Kuligins, who believed in the educational path of reorganizing life and trying to influence the tyrants with the power of persuasion. These people only logically understood the absurdity of tyranny, but were powerless in the fight against it.

If only he unconsciously senses the beauty of nature, then Kuligin acts as its inspired singer. The action begins with his enthusiastic words about the beauty of the Volga. Kuligin ardently sympathizes with poor and unhappy people, but has neither the strength nor the strength. funds to help them. He only dreams of inventing a perpetual motion machine, getting a million for it and using this money to help those in need - “for the common good.”

Condemning the inhumane morals of the “dark kingdom,” he is afraid of decisive action. To Kudryash, who responds to Dikiy with rudeness after rudeness, ‘Kuligin advises: “What, let’s take him as an example!” It’s better to endure it.” And he makes useless attempts to “enlighten”, but only hears the answer - insults. This timidity of Kuligin is not his personal flaw. He is also a victim of the “dark kingdom”. Despite. consciousness and self-esteem, he cannot overcome the slavish obedience that has been cultivated among the people for centuries. He says to Boris: “What can we do, sir! We must try to please somehow.” The loneliness of the semi-educated Kuligin among the completely ignorant Kalinovites is typical of pre-reform Russia.

The playwright is also right that intelligent young people “waiting for an inheritance” are not in a hurry to help the talents of the people. Boris knows that a perpetual motion machine is not feasible, and could explain this to Kuligin, but Kuligin’s public interests are alien to Boris, he considers them empty dreams and prefers not to “disappoint” a good man.

In “The Thunderstorm,” according to I. A. Goncharov, “the picture of national life and morals settled down. with unparalleled artistic completeness and fidelity.” The action of the play does not go beyond the boundaries of family and everyday conflict, but this conflict has great socio-political significance. was a passionate indictment of despotism and ignorance that reigned in pre-reform Russia, an ardent call for freedom and light.

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Among the heroes of A. Ostrovsky’s play “The Thunderstorm,” Kuligin is one of the key figures, although not the main one.

A self-taught mechanic, he really looks at the processes taking place in the town. Kuligin understands that changes are needed in life, that the foundations of the town are outdated and need to be changed, that the old world is collapsing before our eyes. But, unlike Katerina, his protest manifests itself only in words. Outraged by the cruelty of rich people, by the enmity and hatred that reigns around, he still advises to reconcile and somehow exist.

Indecision contributes to his timidity and when Boris proposes to openly expose the injustice happening in Kalinov, he replies: “I already get it, sir, for my chatter.”

At the same time, he is an incorrigible romantic and dreamer. His poetic nature is manifested in his love for nature, the beauty of which inspires poetic lines in him. The subtlety of his soul is evidenced by the fact that he reads poetry, sings songs, and admires the surrounding beauty. His words "Delight! Miracles, beauty! The soul rejoices!" can only belong to a spiritually beautiful person. We don’t know about his appearance, but his inner beauty and understanding of what is happening around him makes this image positive.

At the beginning of the work, Kuligin sits on the shore and admires the beautiful Volga. He loves his town, its residents and wants to do a lot for their prosperity. He worries that there are no lightning rods in the city, and frequent thunderstorms can harm him, he dreams of making a sundial in the park, as well as inventing a perpetual motion machine and using the proceeds from the invention to improve the life of the city. But Kuligin’s noble impulses cannot be realized for the simple reason that he is poor, he does not have money for all this, and no one wants to help him with this. They simply mock his ideas, considering him a strange person.

Kuligin is unable to change the life of the city for the better, because he does not have like-minded people and is afraid to openly fight the old world. But the positiveness of this image is that it does not belong to the dark part of the town’s inhabitants, realizing that a new time is coming.

Essay about Kuligin

The play “The Thunderstorm,” written by Alexander Nikolaevich Ostrovsky, tells the story of the residents of the small town of Kalinovo, in which the permissiveness of the nobles goes beyond boundaries. No one is watching these landowners, and they are free to do whatever they want. Many peasants simply tolerate this, but others are openly outraged by their behavior, and there are those who say this to the nobleman himself.

The first character in the play is Kuligin, a self-taught mechanic who is over 50 years old, proactive, but at the same time dreamy. He sits and admires the vast Russian nature, which he talks about to Kudryash and Shapkin. They do not understand his joy, as they are immersed in ordinary everyday problems and local gossip. His comrades admire him because he does not talk about trifles and can fight back, without force, but simply with words. Kuligin loves to create and create new things, he wants to improve the life of the city and give something great, but most often such dreams lead to loss and disappointment.

If the critic Dobrolyubov wrote in his critical article that Katerina is a ray of light in this dark kingdom, then Kuligin can be said to make this “Dark Kingdom” not so gloomy. But at the same time, despite its bright ray, mechanics, like everyone else, have to endure all the city landowners and their cruel antics. If we remember Kudryash, who only verbally opposed the Dikiy and did not want to obey him, then Kuligin does not want to follow his example, he simply remains silent, enduring all the attacks. He rarely argues with other people above him in class, and does not even try to express his personal opinion. He understands that if he gets into a fight, everything will only get worse, and if he simply insults the arguer, they can take him and cripple him. But more often than not, when Kuligin tries to resolve a dispute peacefully, simply in words between adults and children, his attempts remain a failure.

It is important to note what exactly he betrays, the author’s main thoughts and his opinion about certain things. It is he who says: “Cruel, sir, the morals in our city are cruel!...”. He completely condemns lies and hypocrisy, selfishness. He doesn’t understand why the nobles are so cruel to them all and don’t want to help their neighbors, even in small things. They do everything for themselves and their loved ones, but they won’t give even a coin for their subordinates. Kuligin is not the main character of the work, the hero - the reasoner of the drama, but he can be considered one of the main characters in the entire play and drama. Just like Katerina, the main character of the drama, he fights for honor and justice, for the rights of ordinary peasants. He both fight for love and justice and are ready to lose a lot for this, and Kuligin himself betrays all the thoughts of the author.

Option 3

In the play “The Thunderstorm” by A. Ostrovsky there is one interesting hero, Kuligin. He is not the main character. But despite this, his image is interesting.

The man works as a mechanic. He taught himself his craft. He is a realist and understands what is happening in their city. Kuligin wants to change his life and the life of the town as a whole. He believes that it is necessary to move on and not stand still. In his opinion, the old principles by which the city’s residents lived have long been outdated and it is necessary to come up with something new. He protests against the current system. He was outraged by the cruelty of people and the hatred that reigns around. But all his protests ended only in words.

He is an indecisive man. His refusal to Boris testifies to his cowardice. The man suggested that Kuligin expose the injustice that is happening in the city. But Kuligin told him that he already talked too much and for this he had already been punished more than once. All this confirms his cowardly nature.

The man was quite romantic. He loved to dream. He was a poet at heart. Kuligin loved nature very much. She was his muse and inspiration. He wrote poems about the beauty of nature. He has a fine mental organization. He admires everything that surrounds him. He has a kind and beautiful soul. The author decided not to describe Kuligin’s appearance. In the story, much attention is paid to revealing the inner world of the hero. In general, the image can be considered positive.

He loves to dream while looking at the flowing Volga. He wants his city to develop and become better. Kuligin is worried about the fact that there is no lightning rod in the town. He fears that constant thunderstorms could greatly harm the city. He dreams of making some kind of discovery and spending the money received as a reward for the needs of the town. But these are only his desires, which are not destined to come true. He is poor. When he talks about his ideas to other people, they just laugh at him. The man’s head is filled with only pure and good thoughts.

Kuligin alone cannot change the established life in the city for the better. He doesn't have the strength or money to do it. Essentially, he is a poor man, but he has a very rich inner world. He has no people who would be at the same time with him. Kuligin wants to find like-minded people and fight with them against the established system. This is a positive character. He does not do bad things and does not harm anyone. Kuligin dreams of a bright future and appreciates the beauty of nature.

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1. General characteristics. Kuligin is a self-taught mechanic from the play "The Thunderstorm". The prototype of this character is the Russian inventor I.P. Kulibin, famous for his discoveries ahead of his time.

Kuligin stands out sharply from the rest of the residents of the provincial town. He is well educated and is not subject to the dark superstition that reigns among ordinary people.

Kuligin's main life goal is to invent a perpetuum mobile. The idea of ​​creating a perpetual motion machine was very popular in the 19th century. However, in working on this discovery, Kuligin is not guided by a thirst for fame or the opportunity to get rich.

He wants to spend the cash prize for the invention of a perpetual motion machine to support the philistinism. Kuligin does not belong to the category of strict and self-contained scientists who have devoted their entire lives to science.

He appreciates the beauty of nature, is well versed in poetry, and loves Russian folk songs. Mechanics are interested in living human life, unfettered by centuries-old prejudices.

2. Kuligin's tragedy. In relation to a talented self-taught person, one can apply the expression “There is no prophet in his own country.” People in the province are so ignorant that they consider him, at best, an eccentric. Kuligin's bold ideas cause fear of divine punishment among superstitious ordinary people.

Kuligin needs funds to continue his scientific activities and manufacture experimental models, but it is almost impossible to obtain them through honest work. The clash of an inquisitive mind with ossified ignorance and religious prejudices is clearly demonstrated in the scene of Kuligin’s conversation with Dikiy. A self-taught man is trying to get financial help from a rich merchant to put useful inventions into practice. He understands how difficult this is, so he casts aside all pride and humbly addresses Savl Prokofievich “your lordship.”

Kuligin patiently endures Dikiy’s undeserved insults, persistently continuing to convince him of the enormous benefits of sundials and lightning rods. Dikoy does not even delve into the essence of what Kuligin is telling him. Due to class prejudices, he considers the tradesman a “worm” who is not worth talking to. However, when Kuligin mentions lightning rods, the “pious” merchant becomes truly furious. Dikoy is convinced that thunderstorms and lightning are punishment from above, so “defending” from them means going against God. By calling Kuligin a “Tatar” (i.e., a Muslim), the merchant reveals his limited thinking, constrained by religious dogmas. For the excerpt from Derzhavin’s ode (“I command thunder with my mind”) that Kuligin quoted, Dikoy is ready to send him to the mayor for police proceedings.

3. The scale of the Kuligin problem. In the play, a brilliant inventor, together with him, confronts the “dark kingdom” of a provincial town. However, in reality this confrontation is much larger. The sad fate of the prototype literary character is well known. Most of I.P. Kulibin’s inventions turned out to be unclaimed. A man who could have brought worldwide fame to himself and the whole country died in poverty. The main obstacle to the development of science and technology since the Middle Ages was religious hypocrisy. Even in the 19th century, this problem was typical not only for Russia, but for all of Europe.

Kuligin will most likely share the fate of many talented inventors, never achieving financial support. His inventions are not needed by people who are accustomed to relying on the divine will in everything. The saddest fact is that the inventor is not an atheist. He belongs to his era and naturally believes in God. However, Kuligin’s faith, which allows freedom of thought, is strikingly different from the blind admiration of the overwhelming mass of the population.

Kuligin's antipode is Feklusha, who sees in any technical invention the approach of the kingdom of the Antichrist. The most striking and memorable scene with Kuligin's participation is his speech to mortally frightened people during a thunderstorm. The passionate monologue of a mechanic can be compared to the passionate sermon of a prophet trying to guide the people on the true path. Kuligin exclaims: “It’s all thunderstorm!” This phrase can be regarded as a fair reproach to all people who experience a superstitious fear of what they are unable to understand and explain.

Open lesson within contextual learning technology

Topic: “The city of Kalinov and its inhabitants” in the play “The Thunderstorm” by A.N. Ostrovsky.

Class: 10

Lesson type: working with literary text.

Lesson type - a workshop using contextual learning technology with access to creative work.

Purpose of the lesson: using the speech characteristics of the heroes, consider how the “cruel morals” of the city’s inhabitants destroy the fate of the heroes.

Lesson objectives: characterize the city of Kalinov;

To trace the system of social relations of people of the “dark kingdom”

Promote the development of analytical, communicative and reflective culture, monologue and dialogic speech of students, the disclosure of their creative abilities

Equipment: drama by A.N. Ostrovsky “The Thunderstorm”,

Presentation “The City of Kalinov and its Inhabitants”;

Cards for group work

Principle: “As many students as possible and as few teachers as possible”

Epigraph: There is a certain excess of life

Spilled in the sultry air.

F.I. Tyutchev.

Application,

Wild.
- He’s afraid of someone! He got Boris Grigoryich as a sacrifice, so he rides it... (Kudryash)
- Look for another scolder like our Savel Prokofich! There's no way he'll cut someone off. (Shapkin)
- Shrill man. (Curly)
-There’s no one to calm him down, so he’s fighting... (Shapkin)
- How not to scold! He can’t breathe without it... (Curly)
- He will first break the hell with us, abuse us in every possible way, as his heart desires, but still end up not giving anything... (Boris)
- He has such an establishment. With us, no one dares say a word about salary, he’ll scold you for what it’s worth. (Curly)
- Even his own people can’t please him, but where can I... (Boris)
- Who will please him, if his whole life is based on swearing? And most of all because of the money. Not a single calculation is complete without swearing. Another is happy to give up his own, just to calm down. And the trouble is, in the morning someone will make him angry! He picks on everyone all day long. (Curly)
- One word: warrior! (Shapkin)
- But the trouble is, when such a person offends him, whom he does not dare to scold, then stay at home! (Boris)
- And there’s not much honor, because you’ve been fighting with women all your life... (Kabanova)
“I’m really amazed at you: how many people you have in your house, but they can’t please you alone.” (Kabanova)
-There are no elders over you, so you are showing off... (Kabanova)

(Dikoy is a burly, portly merchant with a thick beard, he is in a hoodie, greased boots, stands with his arms akimbo, speaks in a low, bass voice... He is known in the city as a rude and cruel man. A tyrant. His tyranny is based on the power of money, material dependence and the traditional obedience of the Kalinovites He openly cheats men. He is aware of his strength - this is the power of the money bag. He values ​​​​every penny and gets irritated when he meets Boris, who claims a part of the inheritance - this is the basis of the relationship between the heroes of the play. Dikoy acts as a “hero” only in front of his subordinates. cowardly and cowardly. Dikiy’s speech is rude, full of coarse colloquial vocabulary and an abundance of curses: “Dammit! Damn you! Why are you standing like a pillar! I don’t want to go with a Jesuit!)
Kabanikha.
-Kabanikha is good too!... Well, at least she, at least, is all under the guise of piety... (Kudryash)
-Prude, sir! He gives money to the poor, but completely eats up his family. (Kuligin)
-If I don’t respect you, how can I... (Varvara)
-...what kind of unfortunate person was I born into the world that I can’t please you with anything (Tikhon)
-...he eats, doesn’t allow passage... (Tikhon)
-She sharpens him (Tikhon) now like rusting iron... Her heart is aching because he walks around of his own free will. So now she gives him orders, one more menacing than the other, and then to the image - she will make him swear that he will do everything exactly as ordered. (Varvara)
-If my mother sends me, how can I not go? (Tikhon)
-Well, I’ll go and pray to God, don’t bother me... (Kabanova)
- What does youth mean... It’s funny to even look at them!... They don’t know anything, nor any order... It’s good that those who have elders in the house, they hold the house together as long as they are alive. (Kabanova)
-They don’t really respect elders these days... (Kabanova)
- If only it weren’t for my mother-in-law!.. She crushed me... I’m sick of her and the house; the walls are even disgusting... (Katerina)
-...many people, just take you, decorate themselves with virtues like flowers: that’s why everything is done coolly and orderly... (Feklusha)
-We have nowhere to rush, dear, we live leisurely... (Kabanova)
-Find me cheaper! And I am dear to you! (Kabanova to Dikiy)
- Let’s say that even though her husband is a fool, her mother-in-law is painfully fierce... (Curly)
-Your mommy is too cool. (Kuligin)
- So my mother says: she must be buried alive in the ground so that she can be executed! (Tikhon)
-Mama eats her, and she, like a shadow, walks around unresponsive... (Tikhon)
- I wouldn’t mind, but mummy... how can you talk to her... (Tikhon)
-It must be said directly that it was from her mother (Varvara ran away from home), that’s why she began to tyrannize her and lock her up... (Tikhon)
-my mother-in-law tortures me, locks me up... everyone laughs right in my eyes, they reproach you with every word... (Katerina)
-Mama, you ruined her, you, you, you... (Tikhon)
An approximate description completed by students:
(A tall, overweight old woman wears an old-fashioned dress; holds himself straight, with dignity, walks slowly, sedately, speaks gravely, significantly. The domineering, despotic Kabanikha continuously sharpens her family. Kabanikha sees the Domostroevsky, ancient laws of life as the basis of the family. Kabanikha is convinced that if these laws are not followed, there will be no order. She speaks on behalf of an entire generation, constantly using moralizing phrases. Her image grows into a symbol of patriarchal antiquity. Relying on the authority of antiquity, Kabanikha widely uses folk phraseology and proverbs in her speech: “Why are you pretending to be an orphan? Why are you making a fuss?”, “Someone else’s soul is in the dark.” A measured, monotonous character is given to Kabanikha’s speech by repetitions of words and phrases: “... if I didn’t see with my own eyes and hear with my own ears,” “... that the mother is a grumbler, that the mother does not allow passage, she is squeezing out of the light...”.Household members dependent on Kabanikha have different attitudes towards her teachings.)

Feklusha and other residents of the city.
-What can I say! You live in the promised land! And the merchants are all pious people, adorned with many virtues! Generosity and many donations! (Feklusha)
-You will all burn inextinguishably in fire! Everything in the resin will boil unquenchable! (Lady)
“I really love, dear girl, to listen to someone howl well.” (Feklusha)
- Who can tell you, you’re all slandering each other... you’re all quarreling and bickering. (Glasha)
-And I, dear girl, am not absurd, I have no such sin. I have one sin... I love to eat sweets. (Feklusha)
-I... haven’t walked far, but I’ve heard – I’ve heard a lot... (Feklusha)
-And then there is also a land where all the people have dog heads...For infidelity. (Feklusha)
-It’s also good that there are good people: no, no, and you’ll hear what’s going on in this world; Otherwise they would have died like fools. (Glasha)
-The last times, Mother Marfa Ignatievna, the last, by all accounts the last... Here you have...rarely will anyone come out of the gate to sit...but in Moscow, along the streets there are playgrounds and games, an Indian groan... Why, they began to harness a fiery serpent... (Feklusha)
- Hard times... time has already begun to decline... time is getting shorter... for our sins things are getting shorter and shorter... (Feklusha)
-What is Lithuania? – So it is Lithuania. - And they say, my brother, it fell on us from the sky... - I don’t know how to tell you, from the sky, from the sky.. (Townspeople)
An approximate description completed by students:
(The world of the city is motionless and closed: its residents have a vague idea of ​​their past and know nothing about what is happening outside Kalinov. Feklusha’s absurd stories create distorted ideas about the world among Kalinov residents, instilling fear in their souls. She brings darkness to society , ignorance. Together with Kabanova, she mourns the end of the good old times, condemns the new order, and undermines the foundations of the Domostroevsky order. The words of Feklusha about the “last times” sound symbolically. The patriarchal world of the Kabanovs and the wild ones is living its last days. Feklushi also determines the characteristics of her speech. She strives to win over those around her, therefore the tone of her speech is insinuating, flattering. Feklushi’s obsequiousness is emphasized by her saying “sweetheart.”

Tikhon Kabanov.
- How can I, Mama, disobey you? (Kabanov)
-I, it seems, mummy, don’t take a step out of your will... (Kabanov)
-...what kind of unfortunate person was I born into the world that I can’t please you with anything... (Kabanov)
- Why are you pretending to be an orphan? Why are you being so naughty? Well, what kind of husband are you? Look at you! Will your wife be afraid of you after this? (Kabanova)
-Yes, Mama, I don’t want to live by my own will. Where can I live by my own will! (Kabanov)
-Fool! Why talk to a fool, it’s only a sin... (Kabanova)
-Mother attacks her, and so do you. And you also say that you love your wife. It's boring for me to look at you. (Varvara)
-Know your business - be silent if you don’t know how to do anything... (Varvara)
-You've really driven me too far here! I don’t know how to get out, but you’re still forcing yourself on me. (Kabanov)
-With this kind of bondage, you can run away from whatever beautiful wife you want... No matter what, I’m still a man... I’ll live like this all my life... that’s how you’ll run away from your wife. Yes, as I know now that there won’t be any thunderstorms over me for two weeks, there are no shackles on my legs, so what do I care about my wife? (Kabanov)
-And I love her, I’m sorry to lay a finger on her. I beat him a little, and even then my mother ordered... So I’m killing myself, looking at her. (Kabanov)
- It’s time for you, sir, to live by your own mind. (Kuligin)
-No, they say they are out of their minds. And that means live as someone else’s. (Tikhon)
An approximate description completed by students:
(Tikhon thinks only about pleasing his mother, striving to convince her of his obedience. The plural form of address and the repeated word “mama” give his speech a derogatory character. He understands that by fulfilling his mother’s will, he humiliates his wife. But Tikhon is a weak-willed man who resigns himself to his mother’s fierce temper.)

Kuligin.
-For fifty years I have been looking at the Volga every day, but I can’t take enough of everything... Have you looked closely or don’t understand what beauty is spilled in nature... (Kuligin)
-You are an antique, a chemist... (Kudryash)
-Mechanic, self-taught mechanic... (Kuligin)
-Something like him (Dikov), take him as an example. It's better to endure it. (Kuligin)
-What should I do, sir? We must try to please somehow. (Kuligin)
-I’ve read a lot of Lomonosov, Derzhavin... (Kuligin)
- I already get it, sir, for my chatter; I can’t, I like to spoil the conversation! (Kuligin)
-If only I could find a mobile phone, sir...After all, the British give me a million. I would use all the money for society, for support. Jobs must be given to the philistines. Otherwise, you have hands, but nothing to work with. (Kuligin)
-After all, this... is beneficial for all ordinary people... (Kuligin)
- Why are you bothering me with all sorts of nonsense... Am I your equal or what? (Wild)
-I want to put my work away for nothing...Yes, everyone here knows me, no one will say anything bad about me... (Kuligin)
-I, sir, am a small man, it won’t take long to offend me... “And virtue is honored in rags.” (Kuligin)
-There is nothing to do, we must submit. (Kuligin)
- It's a pity to disappoint him! What a good man! He dreams for himself and is happy. (Boris)
An approximate description completed by students:
(Kulign speaks with pain about the “cruel morals” of the city, but advises “somehow to please” the tyrants. He is not a fighter, but a dreamer; his projects are impracticable. He spends his energy on inventing a perpetual motion machine. Kuligin’s life position is also associated with his features old-fashioned speech. He often uses old Slavonic words and phraseological units, quotes from the “Holy Scripture”: “the necessity of bread”, “there is no end to torment”, etc. He is faithful to Lomonosov and Derzhavin.)
Varvara and Kudryash.
-We don’t have enough guys like me, otherwise we would have taught him not to be naughty... (Curly)
“He senses with his nose that I won’t sell my head cheap... He’s the one who’s scary to you, but I know how to talk to him.” (Curly)
-I’m considered a rude person...I’m not afraid of him, but let him be afraid of me. (Curly)
- Yes, I don’t let it go either: he is a word, and I am ten... No, I won’t slave to him. (Curly)
-I’m too crazy for girls... (Curly)
-Why should I judge you, I have my own sins... (Varvara)
-What a desire to dry out! Even if you die of melancholy, they will probably feel sorry for you!... So what a shame it is to torture yourself! (Varvara)
-I didn’t know that you were so afraid of thunderstorms. I'm not afraid. (Varvara)
-And I was not a liar, but I learned when it became necessary... (Varvara)
- In my opinion, do whatever you want, as long as it’s safe and covered. (Varvara)
-Walk until your time comes. You'll still have enough. (Kabanova)
-Mama sharpened and sharpened Varvara, but she couldn’t stand it, and she was like that - she took it and left... They say with Kudryash, she ran away with Vanka, and they won’t find him anywhere either... from her mother, so she began to tyrannize her and lock her up. “Don’t lock it,” he says, “it will be worse.” That's how it happened. (Kabanov)
An approximate description completed by students:
(Varvara is convinced that you cannot live here without pretense. She sneers at her mother, condemns her. There is no true poetry in the love of Varvara and Kudryash, their relationship is limited. Varvara does not love, but only “walks.” The author depicts the “free” behavior of young people. )

The play “The Thunderstorm” became the pinnacle of creativity of the great Russian playwright A.N. Ostrovsky. The action of the tragedy described in the play takes place in the small town of Kalinov, freely spread out on the banks of the Volga. The main characters live in a state of conflict, the old order has been shaken, and protest is brewing in society.
We meet Kuligin at the very beginning of the play. He is not the main character, but the author gives him a very important role. This self-taught mechanic is a realist, but at the same time, he is a dreamer and a romantic. For the first time we see him sitting on a bench on the banks of the Volga. He admires the beauty of nature from the bottom of his heart and sings. "Delight! Miracles, beauty! The soul rejoices!" - Kuligin says to the strolling Kudryash and Shapkin. But they do not share his joy and are immersed in everyday problems.
In the “dark kingdom” of Kalinov, Kuligin appears as a good person. He is outraged by the foundations and morals of the city, he does not agree with the reigning injustice. Kuligin speaks about it this way, addressing Boris: “Cruel morals, sir, in our city, are cruel! Whoever has money, tries to enslave the poor. They undermine each other’s trade... They quarrel with each other...” But in response to Boris’s proposal to openly denounce Kalinov’s morals, Kuligin replies: “How is it possible, sir! They will eat you, swallow you alive.” This shows his indecision: “I already get it for my chatter, sir.” He avoids loud and decisive protest, and maybe even is afraid. Realizing that nothing can be changed, Kuligin advises “to please somehow.”
On the other hand, Kuligin is a noble dreamer and romantic. He subtly senses the beauty of nature, reads poetry, sings, strives to make people's lives better and broaden their horizons. Kuligin dreams of inventing a perpetuum mobile and getting a million for it, which he would spend on giving work to the philistines. “Otherwise you have hands, but nothing to work with.”
He wants to make a sundial in the city park, for this he needs ten rubles and he asks Dikiy for them, but is met with complete misunderstanding. Kuligin’s concerns about the safety of the city do not leave him: “We have frequent thunderstorms, but we will not have thunder protection systems!” To which Dikoy replies: “A thunderstorm is sent to us as punishment so that we can feel it, but you want to defend yourself with poles...”. Only Kuligin alone has clear goals in life, but, unfortunately, he can change life in the city.
At the end of the play, when the dead Katerina is taken out of the Volga, Kuligin is the first to say to Kabanikha: “Here is your Katerina. Do with her what you want! Her body is here, take it; but the soul is now not yours; it is now before a judge who is more merciful than you.” !" After these words, he leaves because he can no longer be around these people.

In 1859 A.N. Ostrovsky wrote the play “The Thunderstorm,” in which he raised the problem of the turning point in social life, the problem of changing social foundations, penetrated into the very essence of the contradictions of his time, and painted colorful images of tyrants, their way of life and morals. Two images stand in opposition to tyranny - Katerina and Kuligin. This essay is devoted to the second.

Kuligin is a tradesman, a self-taught mechanic. In the first act, in a conversation with Kudryash, he appears to us as a poetic connoisseur of nature, Kuligin admires the Volga, calls the extraordinary view a miracle. A dreamer by nature, he nevertheless understands the injustice of the system, in which everything is decided by the brute power of force and money: “Cruel morals, sir, in our city, cruel!” - he says to Boris Grigorievich: “And whoever has money, sir, tries to enslave the poor so that he can make even more money from his free labors.” Kuligin himself is not at all like that, he is virtuous and dreams of the well-being of the people: “If only I, sir, could find a mobile phone!.., I would use all the money for society...”

The next time Boris meets Kuligin is in the third act on an evening walk. Kuligin again admires nature, air, silence. At the same time, he is upset that a boulevard has been made in the city, but people don’t walk, he says that everyone’s gates have been locked for a long time and not from thieves: “... so that people don’t see how they eat their family and tyrannize their families. And what, sir, behind these castles is dark debauchery and drunkenness! Kuligin seems to be outraged by all the foundations of the “dark kingdom,” but immediately after his angry speech he says: “Well, God be with them!” as if retreating from his previous words. His protest is almost silent, and is expressed only in objections; he is not ready, like Katerina, for an open challenge. At Boris’s proposal to write poetry, Kuligin immediately exclaims: “How is it possible, sir! They will eat you, swallow you alive. I’m already getting enough, sir, for my chatter.” However, it is worth giving him credit for the persistence and at the same time politeness with which he asks Dikiy for money for materials for a sundial on the boulevard: “... for the common benefit, your lordship. Well, what does ten rubles mean to society? God be with you, Savel Prokofich! I am not doing anything rude to you, sir; You, your lordship, have a lot of strength; If only there was the will to do a good deed.”

Unfortunately, Kuligin only encounters rudeness and ignorance on the part of Dikiy. Then he tries to persuade Savely Prokofich to at least use thunderstorms, since thunderstorms are a frequent occurrence in their city. But having achieved no success, Kuligin has no choice but to leave, giving up. dreamer protest tyranny society

Kuligin is a man of science who respects nature and subtly senses its beauty. In the fourth act, he addresses the crowd with a monologue, trying to explain to people that there is no need to be afraid of thunderstorms and other natural phenomena, on the contrary, they need to be admired and admired: “This is not a thunderstorm, but grace!.. one should admire and marvel at the wisdom... “But people don’t want to listen to him; all of them, according to old customs, continue to believe that all this is a disaster, that this is God’s punishment.

Kuligin has a good understanding of people, is capable of empathy and can give correct, practical advice - he showed all these qualities perfectly in a conversation with Tikhon: “You would forgive her, but never remember her... She would be a good wife for you, sir; look - it’s better than anyone else... It’s time for you, sir, to live with your own mind... You need to forgive your enemies, sir!”

It was Kuligin who pulled the dead Katerina out of the water and brought her to Kabanov: “Here is your Katerina. Do with her what you want! Her body is here, take it; but the soul is now not yours; it is now before the Judge, who is more merciful than you!” After these words, Kuligin runs away; he experiences this grief in his own way and is unable to share it with the people who are responsible for the poor girl’s suicide.

Personally, I really like the image of Kuligin. He is like a kind of black sheep in the city of Kalinov, sharply different from the rest of the inhabitants in his way of thinking, reasoning, values, and aspirations. Kuligin realizes the injustice of the foundations of the “dark kingdom”, tries to fight them, dreams of improving the lives of ordinary people. He thinks about the social reconstruction of the city. And perhaps, if Kuligin had found at least a few like-minded people and material support, he would have been able to significantly change Kalinov for the better. This is what I like most about Kuligin - his desire for the well-being of the people.

Kuligin- a character who partially performs the functions of an exponent of the author’s point of view and therefore is sometimes classified as a reasoning hero, which, however, seems incorrect, since in general this hero is certainly distant from the author, depicted rather detachedly, as an unusual person, even somewhat outlandish. The list of characters says about him: “a tradesman, a self-taught watchmaker, looking for a perpetuum mobile.” The hero's surname transparently hints at a real person - I. P. Kulibin (1755-1818), whose biography was published in the journal of the historian M. P. Pogodin "Moskvityanin", where Ostrovsky collaborated.

Like Katerina, K. is a poetic and dreamy nature (for example, it is he who admires the beauty of the Trans-Volga landscape and complains that the Kalinovites are indifferent to him). He appears singing “Among the Flat Valley...”, a folk song of literary origin (to the words of A.F. Merzlyakov). This immediately emphasizes the difference between K. and other characters associated with folklore culture; he is also a bookish person, albeit with a rather archaic bookishness: He tells Boris that he writes poetry “in the old-fashioned way... He’s read a lot of Lomonosov, Derzhavin... Lomonosov was a sage, an explorer of nature...” Even the characterization of Lomonosov testifies to K.’s reading in old books: not a “scientist”, but a “sage”, “an explorer of nature.” “You are an antique, a chemist,” Kudryash tells him. “A self-taught mechanic,” corrects K. K.’s technical ideas are also a clear anachronism. The sundial that he dreams of installing on Kalinovsky Boulevard comes from antiquity. Lightning rod - a technical discovery of the 18th century. If K. writes in the spirit of the classics of the 18th century, then his oral stories are sustained in even earlier stylistic traditions and are reminiscent of ancient moralizing stories and apocrypha (“and they will begin, sir, a trial and a case, and there will be no end to the torment. They are suing and suing here, and they will go to the province, and there they are waiting for them, and splashing their hands with joy” - the picture of judicial red tape, vividly described by K., recalls stories about the torment of sinners and the joy of demons). All these features of the hero, of course, were given by the author in order to show his deep connection with the world of Kalinov: he is, of course, different from the Kalinovites, we can say that he is a “new” person, but only his novelty has developed here, inside this world that generates not only their passionate and poetic dreamers, like Katerina, but also their “rationalist” dreamers, their special, home-grown scientists and humanists.

The main business of K.’s life is the dream of inventing the “perpetu-mo-bile” and receiving a million for it from the British. He intends to spend this million on the Kalinovsky society - “jobs must be given to the philistines.” Listening to this story, Boris, who received a modern education at the Commercial Academy, remarks: “It’s a pity to disappoint him! What a good man! He dreams for himself and is happy.” However, he is hardly right. K. is truly a good person: kind, selfless, delicate and meek. But he is hardly happy: his dream constantly forces him to beg for money for his inventions, conceived for the benefit of society, and it does not even occur to society that they could be of any use, for them K. is a harmless eccentric, something kind of like a city holy fool. And the main of the possible “patrons of the arts,” Dikoy, completely attacks the inventor with abuse, once again confirming both the general opinion and Kabanikha’s own admission that he is not able to part with the money. Kuligin's passion for creativity remains unquenched; he feels sorry for his fellow countrymen, seeing their vices as the result of ignorance and poverty, but cannot help them in anything. So, the advice he gives (forgive Katerina, but never remember her sin) is obviously impossible to implement in the Kabanovs’ house, and K. hardly understands this. The advice is good and humane, because it is based on humane considerations, but it does not take into account the real participants in the drama, their characters and beliefs.

For all his hard work, the creative beginning of his personality, K. is a contemplative nature, devoid of any pressure. This is probably the only reason why the Kalinovites put up with him, despite the fact that he differs from them in everything. It seems that for the same reason it turned out to be possible to entrust him with the author’s assessment of Katerina’s action. “Here is your Katerina. Do what you want with her! Her body is here, take it; but the soul is now not yours: it is now before the Judge, who is more merciful than you!”

The play “The Thunderstorm” is the most significant work of A. N. Ostrovsky. In it, he raises the most vital questions of his time and exposes colorful characters to the reader's judgment.

The list of characters in "The Thunderstorm" is small. These are the Kabanovs and the inhabitants of their house: the family of Wild Vanya Kudryash, Shapkin, Kuligin and several minor characters.

Kuligin occupies a special place among the heroes. The reader meets him at the very beginning of the play. Kuligin's image immediately attracts the reader's attention.

Kuligin is a tradesman, a self-taught watchmaker, but he knows how to feel beauty, he is poetic. Looking at the Volga, the hero exclaims with ecstasy: “The view is extraordinary! Beauty!”, and the fact that he has been contemplating the Volga every day for fifty years does not prevent him from enjoying its beauties. Kudryash calls Kuligin an antique, that is, a rare, extraordinary person. For the city of Kalinov, this hero is truly an exceptional phenomenon. He compares favorably with many characters in the play, who are unlikely to ever appreciate the same beauty of the Volga landscape.

His monologues are of great importance for revealing Kuligin’s character. Kuligin angrily attacks Kalinov's order. His words about disdain for the poor people, about the cruel deception of honest workers, about squabbles between merchants who seek to harm a competitor by any means are filled with bitterness. The hero cruelly ridicules the inferiority of the inner world of the Kalinovsky inhabitants, who go out onto the boulevard for only one purpose: “to show off their outfits.” Kuligin does not spare tyrants either: “They eat their own family and hurt their family.” According to the hero, the main goal of the life of the Kalinovsky tyrant is “to rob orphans, relatives, nephews, to beat up his family so that they don’t dare say a word about anything he does there.”

Kuligin has poetic talent. For him, the undoubted authority is Lomonosov, who came from the common people and through work and diligence paved his way to great discoveries. Kuligin is well-read. He can put his thoughts into poetic form. It's just that he lacks courage. “They will eat you, they will swallow you alive,” he says.

Kuligin sees great potential in the people. He appreciates his skill and regrets that the philistines “have hands, but nothing to work with.”

The hero is looking for a perpetuum mobile, but no one in Kalinov understands his aspirations, no one wants to support him. Kuligin passionately describes to Di-Koma all the benefits that his ideas can bring. He is trying to convince those who rip off the last penny from their workers of the need to donate a certain amount “for society.” The hero does not see that for Dikiy this is all “nonsense”, and Kuligin himself is nothing more than a worm who can be pardoned or crushed. Kuligin believes in achieving his goals, he hopes for a miracle, that in the “dark kingdom” there will still be at least one “living” soul.

Boris turns out to be much more perspicacious than Kuligin, who in response to the hero’s words only sighs: “It’s a pity to disappoint him!”

In vain does the hero try to explain to the “dark” Kalinovites the “grace” of a thunderstorm, and the beauty of the northern lights, and the beauty of moving comets. He quotes Lomonosov to them, throws precious beads in all directions, not realizing that all this is in vain.

Kuligin says to Tikhon, Kabanova’s son, that his mother is “too cool,” and Katerina is “better than anyone,” and that at his age it’s time to “live with your own mind.”

Kuligin has a kind heart. He tells the disappointed Tikhon that enemies must be forgiven, and having found Katerina dead, he throws words about their unmercifulness towards her into the Kabanovs’ faces.

According to N. Dobrolyubov, it was still impossible to rely on the Kuligins, who believed in the educational path of reorganizing life and trying to influence the tyrants with the power of persuasion. These people only logically understood the absurdity of tyranny, but were powerless in the fight against it.

A.N. Ostrovsky created the play “The Thunderstorm” in 1859, a work that touched upon difficult issues of the turning point in public life and the change in social foundations. Alexander Nikolaevich penetrated into the essence of the contradictions of his time. He created colorful characters of tyrants, described their morals and way of life. Two images act as a counterbalance to tyranny - these are Kuligin and Katerina. Our article is devoted to the first of them. “The image of Kuligin in the play “The Thunderstorm” is a topic that interests us. Portrait of A.N. Ostrovsky is presented below.

Brief description of Kuligin

Kuligin is a self-taught mechanic and tradesman. In a conversation with Kudryash (first act), he appears to the reader as a poetic connoisseur of nature. admires the Volga, calling the extraordinary view that opened up to him a miracle. The image of Kuligin in the play by A.N. Ostrovsky's "Thunderstorm" can be supplemented with the following details. A dreamer by nature, nevertheless this hero understands the injustice of the existing system, in which the brute power of money and force decides everything. He tells Boris Grigorievich that there are “cruel morals” in this city. After all, whoever has money seeks to enslave the poor in order to gain even more capital from his labors. The hero himself is not at all like that. The characteristics of Kuligin's image are exactly the opposite. He dreams of prosperity for the entire people and strives to do good deeds. Let us now present in more detail the image of Kuligin in the play "The Thunderstorm".

Kuligin's conversation with Boris

Boris meets the character we are interested in on an evening walk in the third act. Kuligin again admires nature, silence, air. However, at the same time, he complains that the city still hasn’t made a boulevard, and people don’t walk in Kalinov: everyone’s gates are locked. But not at all from thieves, but so that others do not see how they tyrannize the family. Behind these castles there is a lot, as Kuligin says, of “drunkenness” and “dark debauchery.” The hero is outraged by the foundations of the “dark kingdom”, but immediately after his angry speech he says: “Well, God bless them!”, as if backing away from the words spoken.

His protest remains almost silent; it is expressed only in objections. The image of Kuligin in the play is characterized by the fact that this character is not ready for an open challenge, like Katerina. Kuligin exclaims at the proposal that Boris makes him to write poetry, that he will be “swallowed alive,” and complains that he already gets it for his speeches.

Request addressed to the Wild

It is worth giving Kuligin credit for the fact that he persistently and at the same time politely asks Dikiy to give money for materials. He needs them to install a sundial on the boulevard “for the general benefit.”

Kuligin, unfortunately, only encounters ignorance and rudeness on the part of this man. Then the hero tries to at least persuade Savely Prokofich to use thunderstorms, since thunderstorms are a frequent occurrence in the city. Having failed to achieve success in this matter, Kuligin can do nothing more than wave his hand and leave.

Kuligin - a man of science

The hero we are interested in is a man of science, who respects nature and subtly senses its beauty. In the fourth act, he addresses the crowd with a monologue, trying to explain to people that they should not be afraid of thunderstorms and any others. They should be admired and admired. However, the city's residents do not want to listen to him. They live according to old customs, continue to believe that this is God's punishment, that a thunderstorm is bound to bring disaster.

Kuligin's knowledge of people

The image of Kuligin in the play "The Thunderstorm" is characterized by the fact that this hero is well versed in people. He is able to empathize and give practical, correct advice. The hero showed these qualities, in particular, in a conversation with Tikhon. He tells him that one must forgive enemies, and one should also live by one’s own wits.

It was this hero who pulled Katerina out and brought her to the Kabanovs, saying that they could take her body, but her soul did not belong to them. She now appears before a Judge who is much more merciful than the Kabanovs. Kuligin runs away after these words. This hero experiences the grief that happened in his own way and is unable to share it with the people who are responsible for this girl’s suicide.

White crow

In Kalinov, the hero we are interested in is a white crow. The image of Kuligin in Ostrovsky's play "The Thunderstorm" is characterized by the fact that this character's thinking is significantly different from the way of thinking of the rest of the inhabitants. He has different aspirations and values. Kuligin realizes that the foundations of the “dark kingdom” are unfair, tries to fight them, strives to make the lives of ordinary people better.

The hero we are interested in dreams of social reconstruction of Kalinov. And probably, if he had found material support and like-minded people, he would have been able to significantly improve this city. The desire for the well-being of the people is perhaps the most attractive feature that, together with others, makes up the image of Kuligin in the play “The Thunderstorm”.

Test tasks based on the play by A.N. Ostrovsky "Thunderstorm"

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1. To what genre of literature does A.N.’s play belong? Ostrovsky's "Thunderstorm"?

A) Tragedy

B) Drama

B) Comedy

2. What type of problematic determines the peculiarity of A.N.’s play? Ostrovsky's "Thunderstorm"?

A) National

B) Adventurous

C) Ideological and moral

D) Philosophical

3. What was Kabanikha’s name?

A) Marfa Ignatievna

B) Maria Ivanovna

B) Marfa Kirillovna

D) Anastasia Pavlovna

4. What descriptions fit the image of Kabanova?

A) Calm, balanced, reasonable

B) Hysterical, unbalanced, scandalous

B) Rude, tyrannical, ignorant

D) Silent, thoughtful, uncommunicative

5. Whose nephew was Boris?

A) Kabanova

B) Wild

B) Kuligina

D) Shapkina

6. Which critic called Katerina “A ray of sunshine in a dark kingdom”?

A) A.N. Dobrolyubov

B) V.G. Belinsky

B) N.G. Chernyshevsky

D) D.I. Pisarev

7. What is the main problem raised by A.N. Ostrovsky in his play?

A) The problem of poverty and wealth

B) The problem of upbringing and education

B) The problem of fathers and sons

D) The problem of the “little man”

8. How did Katerina feel about her husband?

A) I loved you very much, I just succumbed to the impulse of new feelings

B) She respected him and pitied him, but did not marry for love

C) I loved you at the beginning of the relationship, but over time the feelings disappeared

D) Always despised, married to spite another

9. What event is the culmination of the work?

A) Katerina’s first date with Boris

B) Katerina’s betrayal

B) Katerina’s suicide

D) Katerina’s confession to her husband and Kabanikha about her sin

test 10. How do the residents of Kalinov feel about such a natural phenomenon as a thunderstorm?

A) Nobody pays attention to her

B) Causes wild horror, because it is sent from above in the form of punishment

B) They are afraid of flooding after rain

D) They rejoice at the future rain after a long drought

11. How did Kabanova treat her daughter-in-law?

A) She didn’t like him, but didn’t interfere in her son’s family life

B) Loved her like her own daughter

C) We often quarreled, but I valued her opinion

D) Humiliated, insulted, mocked her in every possible way

12. Which of the residents of the city of Kalinov was not afraid of a thunderstorm?

B) Kuligin

D) Shapkin

13. Who was the young girl Varvara?

A) a girl in the Kabanovs’ house

B) daughter of the Wild

B) Boris's sister

D) Tikhon’s sister, Kabanikha’s daughter

14. What river flows near the city of Kalinov?

A) Volga

B) Yenisei

15. How did Tikhon Kabanov treat his mother?

A) Didn’t communicate much, didn’t agree with her life principles

B) He often quarreled because he did not want to put up with her ways

B) Loved, but lived independently

D) I obeyed her in everything, I was afraid to contradict her

16. To which of the characters in the play do the following words belong: “Why be afraid! Why be afraid? Are you crazy, or what? He won’t be afraid of you, and he won’t be afraid of me either. What kind of order will there be in the house?”

A) Wild

B) Tikhon

B) Kabanikha

D) Boris

17. What question bothered Katerina?

A) Why not everyone marries for love

B) Why don’t people fly like birds?

C) How can she get rich?

D) Why can’t a person always be happy?

18. What did Kuligin dream about?

A) Invent a perpetual motion machine

B) Marry Katerina

B) Expand your farm

D) Leave Kalinov

19. Why did Katerina decide to commit suicide?

A) Couldn’t live without Boris

B) I was very ashamed in front of Tikhon

C) I couldn’t forgive myself

D) Could not stand the mockery of her mother-in-law

test-20. The main theme of the play by A.N. Ostrovsky "The Thunderstorm":

A) Theme of family and marriage

B) The theme of educating the new nobility

B) The theme of the corruption of human nature

D) The theme of the relationship between man and nature

21. To which of the characters in the play do the following words belong: “How, girl, not to be afraid! Everyone should be afraid. It’s not scary that it will kill you, but that death will suddenly find you as you are, with all your sins, with all your evil thoughts.”?

A) Kabanova

B) Boris

B) Varvara

D) Katerina

22. Boris obeyed and obeyed his uncle Dikiy in everything, because:

A) Loved him and respected him

B) Considered the best example to follow

C) Dependent on him financially

D) I didn’t want to upset my uncle

23. To which of the characters in the play do the following words belong: “You boasted that you love your husband very much; I see your love now. Another good wife, having seen her husband off, howls for an hour and a half and lies on the porch; but apparently it’s nothing to you”?

A) Katerina

B) Kabanikha

B) Wild

D) Boris

24. Who was Varvara’s lover?

A) Curly

B) Shapkin

D) Kuligin

25. What punishment did Kabanikha offer for Katerina’s son for treason?

A) Lock it in the basement

B) Leave for a week without food

B) Flog

D) Bury alive in the ground

26. To which of the characters in the play do the following words belong: “Listen! These are the stories that happened to me. I was fasting about fasting, about great things, and then it’s not easy and you slip a little man in; He came for money and carried firewood. And it brought him to sin at such a time! I did sin: I scolded him, I scolded him so much that I couldn’t ask for anything better, I almost killed him. This is what my heart is like! After asking for forgiveness, he bowed at his feet, really. Truly I tell you, I bowed at the man’s feet. This is what my heart brings me to: here in the yard, in the dirt, I bowed to him; I bowed to him in front of everyone"?

A) Kabanova

B) Wild

B) Kuligin

D) Tikhon

27. What does female beauty lead to, according to the lady?

A) for the wedding

B) to unrequited love

B) to loneliness

D) to destruction

28. How did Katerina’s last meeting with Boris end?

A) Boris leaves Katerina alone and leaves, praying to God that she dies quickly

B) Promises to take Katerina to his place in Siberia over time

C) Refuses to go to Siberia, despite the fact that his uncle will leave him without money

D) Boris promises to earn money and return to Kalinovo

29. What does Katerina’s husband Tikhon regret at the end of the play?

A) About the fact that his beloved died

B) About the fact that he found Katerina too late

C) Himself, because he remained to live in the world and suffer

D) About the fact that he could not influence his mother

test_30. How does A.N.’s play end? Ostrovsky's "Thunderstorm"?

A) The wedding of Varvara and Kudryash

B) The death of Katerina

B) The return of Boris

D) Reconciliation of Katerina and Tikhon

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