Book: A ray of light in the darkness

Where a child character in order for him to resist all the forces, at least for the resistance was promised the worst punishment? The answer is: the inability to make what he is forced...

It is known that the extremes reflect two extremes, and that the strongest protest is one that rises at last from the breast the weak and patient.

Russian life finally came to what is virtuous and respectable, but weak and impersonal being, do not satisfy the public consciousness and are recognised as useless. Felt neotrogena a need for people, even if less beautiful, but more active and energetic.

That is why so many people sad, because something so Wild and crazy: they do not want to shorten its wider pretensions and are now in the position of a rich merchant on the eve of bankruptcy.

Husband of Katerina, a young Boar, though many suffer from the old Kabanikha, but still it is independent: it can and Sabel prokofitch to drink to escape, he and I will go from the mother and there unfold on the outside, and if bad he really have from the old woman, so there is on whom to pour out his heart - he the wife will throw up... and currently lives and raises their character, good for nothing, all in the secret hope that they will break.

The fact that the character of Catherine, as he performed in "the Storm" is a step forward not only in Ostrovsky's dramatic activities, but in all our literature. It corresponds to a new phase of our national life, he has long demanded its implementation in the literature about it spun by our best writers; but they were able only to understand his need and could not comprehend and feel its essence; is able to do Ostrovsky.

Katerina does not belong to the violent characters, never satisfied, love to destroy, come what may. On the contrary, it is nature to advantage creative, loving, perfect.

The absence of any law, any logic - this is the law and the logic of this life. This is not anarchy, but something even far worse (although the imagination of an educated European and can't imagine something worse than anarchy).

It is good to know the properties of plants, it is necessary to study it on the soil in which it grows; severing from the soil, you will be in the form of plants, but do not know quite to his life. Exactly you don't recognize society, if you consider only the immediate relations of several persons, who came for some reason to clash with each other: there will be only business, official side of life, but we need her everyday environment.

Moreover, you will find this material side in all life's relations dominates uvlechenno and people are deprived of their material support show little regard for abstract right and even lose a clear consciousness about them. In fact - well-fed man can talk coolly and cleverly, should he have such food; but hungry, eager for food, where he sees her and whatever it was.

... pretty safe to say our history to modern times have not contributed to our development of a sense of law, did not create strong guarantees for the individual and gave a wide field to arbitrary. This kind of historical development, of course, was a consequence of the decline of public morality: respect for their own dignity is lost, faith in the right, and therefore duty - down tyranny trampled right under tyranny was podrachivala trick.

Thus, while recognizing the value of literature the main explanations of the phenomena of life, we demand from it the one quality, without which it can not be any advantages, namely, the truth.

But what is worse is the people, the stronger they feel the need, that was good. Deprivation will not stop the demands, but only annoying; only eating is to satisfy hunger. Still the struggle is not over; the natural desire, then as if salesas, it is appearing stronger, all looking for your satisfaction. This is the essence of history.

The natural desire of mankind, reduced to the most simple denominator, can be expressed in two words: "That all was well". It is clear that, to achieve that goal, the people, by the very nature of the case, first had to leave; everyone wanted, that he was well, and claiming its benefit, interfere with others; to get well so that one does not interfere, did not know how.