The image of the Wild in the play "Thunderstorm" Ostrovsky

The play "The Storm" by Alexander Ostrovsky presents a vivid picture of the serf society of the late 18th century. The playwright introduces us to the world of the Russian Volga city of Kalinov, who has lived a century with the same patriarchal, measured life. This is the world of philistines and merchants. Is it good? Is there much light in the Russian patriarchal pre-bourgeois society?

Take them.

On whom is the "dark kingdom" held?

Deprived of a positive development vector, the urban community of the times of serfdom expansion is socially sick to such an extent that Nikolai Dobrolyubov calls it "the dark kingdom" .. He, calling Ostrovsky "connoisseur of Russian life," in fact confirms the typical depiction of the playwright represented by the playwright. Wild and Kabanikha in the play "Storm" really get a direct benefit from the suffering of others and in every way support the suffocating, antisocial atmosphere in society. The meaning of the "dark realm" they retain is obvious: the transformation of human suffering into their personal wealth, into the capital of merchants - the myrrh. Both of the above negative images in Russian literature are considered classic. They are revealed by the author with great artistic power. The theme of this article is the type of merchant Saveliy Prokofich Dikogo. Unfortunately, many critics emphasize its primitiveness. In our opinion, this is not true. In particular, it is worth noting that Savel Prokofych is both the ruler and the victim of the "dark kingdom" of the uyezd.

Specificity of the image of the merchant Wild

The image of the Wild in the play "Thunderstorm" is typical of Russian society. This is a person who "made" a huge fortune, rising from the bottom. The author does not give us a direct comment on this, but a thoughtful reader will find this out. By the psychotype of a merchant. Let's explain our version. In the people once there was a proverb "No worse than a pan for his Ivan." The image of the Wild in the play "Storm" - a clear illustration of the validity of this thought. Savel Prokofievich, even becoming the chief tycoon of the city of Kalinov, can not stop in his inertia of a cyborg to make money by any means.

Savel Prokofic Syndrome

Our task is to understand the image of Wild in the play "Storm". Imagine that you are an actor "entering this role". How to do it the shortest way? What do you advise? Let's say you are chronically devoid of mercy. Imagine: causing a person suffering and even ruining him, you do not feel any moral scorn. "Entering into the image," pretend that you do not know the sense of responsibility to society ... Did you feel it?

Agree, the terrible, destructive image of the Wild in the play "Storm" - typical and often found in our society, only in other ways ... In his rapid and continuous enrichment, he has one strange advantage over other people - he does not torment his conscience. Savel Prokofich aggressively expands his living space, stopping just before two factors: before the Force and before the Power. Let us consider the above-described condensed characteristic in more detail ...

The mercilessness of the merchant Wild

As we have already mentioned, the image of Wild in Ostrovsky's play "The Storm" is not even the type of person who goes to a deal with his conscience (Savel Prokofich simply does not have it). His moral principles are very vague, and following the rites of the Orthodox Church is more like a deal with God for the forgiveness of sins than a sincere desire to harmonize oneself and one's relations with society and with the family.

Every day his wife prays visitors: do not anger him. After all, the Wild One does not control himself in a rage, even the domestic ones hide from him in attics and closets.

Reflex rage

Manipulate a person through fear - such is his comfortable state, which he hesitates to openly say. (Aloud he says: "My heart is like this!") The image of the Wild from the play "Thunderstorm" is a dangerous type of a person receiving material benefits, while in a state of inadequate bordering on schizophrenia.

It is in a state of altered fury of consciousness that he creates things that often can not explain later. Let us recall, for example, his narrative of the kuma Martha Kabanova about an unfortunate peasant supplicant who was almost "stabbed to death."

Attention is drawn to the episode when he tells of his uncontrollable rage in the Wild in Ostrovsky's play "The Storm". The characteristic given to them by themselves is deceitful. Everything - is understandable: seizures of his rabies - are initially self-serving, they bring him money. After all, when he underpays the humiliated cry of hired people for work, the principle works in his favor: "money saved is the money earned!" Daily seizures guarantee daily additional profits.

The Danger of Mental Disorder

Another thing worries him. Deprived of all spirituality, the image of Dikov in the play "Storm", falls into a kind of vicious circle, reminiscent of the Tolkien deceitful ring of omnipotence. He understands that the reflex developed by him for "the initiation of rabies - gaining benefits" can play a cruel joke on him: to drive him completely mad and ruin. It is about this that he expresses alarm to his kum - merchant Kabanikh. Savel Prokofych himself does not notice when a mechanism is triggered in him, including insanity ...

Why is the image of the Wild presented sporadically?

A man who terrorizes the city ... The image of the Wild in Ostrovsky's play "The Thunderstorm" is deliberately disclosed by Ostrovsky non-systemically. In the course of the action, he appears only thrice before the viewer's view of the play. And this is understandable. It is rather risky even to classify the classics of their contemporaries - the powerful of this world.

What features, not disclosed by the author, can be inherent in Savel Prokofich? A similar characteristic is that most adult readers can easily imagine themselves. Let's give only two key ideas to this reasoning. Is it typical for modern power-hungry to have a psychotype of the main merchant of the city of Kalinov? Does a modern average citizen have real rights in court? ...

Conclusion

This, of course, is a sad truth, but before us in mass media daily a host of modern unscrupulous merchants of the Wild, the apologists of the unbelief of serfdom. These are modern feudal lords, prosperous among whole social strata (as Pelevin aptly put it, working "for food").

So, what features can complement the modernized image of Wild in the play Ostrovsky "Thunderstorm"? This practice, among other things, demonstrates the theaters of Israel, where the "hurray" is a modern version of Gogol's "Inspector". Let's "turn on the fantasy." What can help in the modern society type of Wild "raising turbidity in the water", it is more effective to make money and plant your "ego"?

Let's answer briefly. A talent for inciting hatred between people and representatives of different nationalities. Absence of moral brakes in sanctioning murder (or murders). The desire to rake the heat with someone else's hands, using their money as an instrument.

To conclude our discussion, we note that such a sociopathy really poisons the harmony of society, turning the relationship in it into a "dark kingdom".