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Characteristics of the Kabaniha - the central heroine of Ostrovsky's play "The Storm"
Kabaniha in the play "Storm" is the antagonist of the main character, Katerina. The contrast of characters in a work is of decisive importance, revealing its meaning. Heroines are representatives of the opposite poles of the patriarchal world. If Katerina is spirituality, poetry, kindness, mercy, then Marfa Ignatyevna - earthiness, love of money, pettiness.
Relations between the heroine and her family
The characteristic of Kabaniha allows the reader to understand the attitude of the Old Believers to the new world. The merchant has raised her children in fear, she wants to extend her power to her daughter-in-law. She constantly teaches her son, makes him punish his wife, keep her on a short leash. When Tikhon is puzzled, why should he make Katherine be afraid of him, because she loves him, her mother screams at him. After all, if the daughter-in-law of her husband is not afraid of her, then her mother-in-law is even more so.
Relationship of the merchant with the surrounding
The last guardian of order
The image of Kabanikhi is the embodiment of the Old Believer, some medieval foundations. The merchant suffers from the fact that her world is slowly falling apart. She sees that young people do not support her, she does not respect old laws, she thinks in new ways. The woman is overwhelmed with some apocalyptic expectations, she does not understand what will happen when all the old-timers die out, and there will be no one to oppose everything modern. House Kabanovs is almost the last stronghold, where the dogmas of antiquity are respected.
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