Wild and Kabanikha. Characteristics of the heroes of the drama by A.N.

One of the most respected representatives of Kalinov is the enterprising and powerful merchant Savel Prokofievich Dikoy. At the same time, this figure, along with Kabanikha, is considered the personification of the “dark kingdom”. At its core, Dikoy is a tyrant who, in the first place, puts only his desires and whims. Therefore, his relationships with others can be described in only one word - arbitrariness. People are accustomed to giving in to him, and he, feeling his power over them, continues to tyrannize everyone who is weaker than him. Kabanova, whom Dikoy is only afraid of, comments on his actions as follows: “There are no elders over you, so you are being swaggering.” Dikoy only cowards those who can put him in his place. There was a case when he saved a hussar passing by, but then he more than took out all the accumulated anger on his family. He also gives in to Kabanikha, knowing that she is smarter and more cunning than him. Naturally, the merchant’s relatives get the most from the Wild. Every morning his wife tearfully asks everyone not to anger her husband. But if only it were possible to predict what exactly he would be angry about in the next minute.

Behind rudeness there is usually always ignorance, and, most importantly, the Wild One completely lacks curiosity and desire for enlightenment. This is how the merchant demonstrates all his dense darkness in a conversation with Kuligin on the boulevard when he declares that a thunderstorm is sent as a punishment to people, so the construction of a lightning rod makes no sense. In addition, Dikiy’s speech itself is rude, which is simply filled with various curses.

"wholly owned" dark kingdom" A wealthy merchant, the most respected and influential man in the city. But at the same time terribly ignorant and cruel. The characterization of the Wild One in the play “The Thunderstorm” is inextricably linked with the description of the morals and habits of the city residents. Kalinov itself is a fictional space, so the vices spread throughout Russia. By identifying Dikiy’s character traits, one can easily understand the sad social situation that developed in Russia in the 19th century.

The author gives a meager description of the Wild One in “The Thunderstorm”: a merchant, significant person in the city. Almost not a word is said about appearance. Nevertheless, it is a colorful image. The character's last name speaks for itself. The semantic field of “savagery” is mentioned more than once in the text of the work. In the description of the life of the city of Kalinov, drunkenness, swearing and assault, in other words, savagery, are constantly mentioned. Unmotivated fear of a thunderstorm only strengthens the belief that the inhabitants have stopped at some primitive stage of development.
The name Saul is also telling. It belongs to the Christian tradition. This biblical character is known as a persecutor of Christians.

The image of the Wild One in Ostrovsky’s play “The Thunderstorm” is quite unambiguous. There is not a single scene or episode where this character would show his positive qualities. And, in fact, there is nothing to show. The whole of Dikoy seems to consist of bile, dirt and swearing. Almost all of his remarks contain swear words: “Get lost!” I don’t even want to talk to you, to the Jesuit,” “Leave me alone! Leave me alone! Stupid man!”, “Yes, you damned ones will lead anyone into sin!”

Thoughtless submission to those who have more money created a certain legend about the Wild One as the main man in the city. And the wild one behaves in accordance with this conditional status. He is rude to the mayor, steals from ordinary men, threatens Kuligin: “and for these words, send you to the mayor, so he will give you a hard time!”, “So you know that you are a worm. If I want, I’ll have mercy, if I want, I’ll crush.” Dikoy is uneducated. He doesn’t know history, he doesn’t know modernity. The name of Derzhavin and Lomonosov, and even more so the lines from their works, are like the most offensive swearing for Dikiy. Inner world The hero is so poor that the reader has no reason to sympathize with him. Dikoy is not even a hero, but rather a character. There is no internal filling in it. The character of Savl Prokofievich is based on several qualities: greed, selfishness and cruelty. There is absolutely nothing else in the Wild and a priori cannot appear.

One scene from Dikiy’s life remains almost unnoticed by readers. Kudryash says that one day one person was rude to Diky and put him in an awkward position, because of which they laughed at the merchant for another two weeks. That is, Dikoy is actually not at all what he wants to seem.
It is laughter that is an indicator of its insignificance and inappropriate pathos.

In one of the actions, the drunken merchant “confesses” to Marfa Ignatievna. Kabanikha speaks to him on an equal footing; from her point of view, Savl Prokofievich would be less arrogant if there was a richer man in Kalinov than Dikiy. But Dikoy does not agree, remembering how he scolded the man, and then apologized, bowing at his feet. We can say that in his speeches a typical feature of the Russian mentality is realized: “I know what I’m doing is bad, but I can’t help myself.” Dikoy admits: “I’ll give it, I’ll give it, but I’ll scold you. Therefore, as soon as you mention money to me, it will start to ignite everything inside me; It kindles everything inside, and that’s all; Well, even in those days I would never curse a person.” Kabanikha notes that Savl Prokofievich often deliberately tries to provoke aggression in himself when people come to him to ask for loans. But Dikoy retorts - “Who doesn’t feel sorry for their own goods!” Although the merchant is accustomed to taking out his anger on women, he is careful with Kabanikha: she is more cunning and stronger than him. Perhaps it is in her that he sees a much stronger tyrant than himself.

The role of the Wild One in Ostrovsky's "The Thunderstorm" is clear. It is in this character that the concept of tyranny is embodied. A wild, greedy, worthless man who imagines himself the arbiter of destinies. He is capricious and irresponsible, like Tikhon, and just likes to drink a glass of vodka. However, behind all this tyranny, rudeness and ignorance lies ordinary human cowardice. Dikoy is even afraid of thunderstorms. In it he sees supernatural power, God's punishment, so he tries to hide from the storm as soon as possible.

Thanks to such a concentrated image, many social flaws can be highlighted. For example, servility, bribery, feeble-mindedness, narrow-mindedness. Along with this, we can also talk about selfishness, fall moral principles and violence.

Characteristics of the image of the Wild in the play “The Thunderstorm” by Ostrovsky |

The play features two groups of city residents. One of them personifies the oppressive power " dark kingdom" These are the oppressors and enemies of everything living and new. Another group includes Katerina and Kuligin. Tikhon, Boris, Kudryash and Varvara. These are victims of the “dark kingdom”, oppressed, equally feeling the brute force of the “dark kingdom”, but expressing their protest against this force in different ways. Image of the Wild: At someone else’s feast there is a hangover” This is how the meaning of the word tyrant is defined: “Tyrant - it’s called when a person doesn’t listen to anyone: you’re at least a stake in his head, but he’s all his own... This is a wild, powerful person, cool heart."

Such a tyrant, whose behavior is guided only by unbridled tyranny and stupid stubbornness, is Savel Prokofich Dikoy. Dikoy demands the unquestioning obedience of those around him, who will do anything to avoid angering him. It’s especially hard for his family: at home, Dikoy goes wild without any control, and family members, fleeing his rage, hide in attics and closets all day long. Dikoy completely hounded his nephew! Boris Grigorievich, knowing that he was completely financially dependent on him.

Dika is not at all shy with strangers, over whom she can “show off” with impunity. Thanks to money, he holds in his hands the entire powerless mass of ordinary people and mocks them. The traits of tyranny are especially evident in his conversation with Kuligin.

Kuligin turned to Dikiy with a request to give ten rubles to build a sundial for the city.

Wild. Or maybe you want to steal; who knows you!..

Kuligin. Why, sir, Savel Prokofievich, would you like to offend an honest man?

Wild. Am I going to give you a report? I don’t give an account to anyone more important than you. I want to think about you this way, and I think so. For others, you are an honest person, but I think that you are a robber, that’s all. Did you want to hear this from me? So listen! I say that he is a robber, and horses! Why are you going to sue me or something? So, you know that you are a worm. If I want, I will have mercy, if I want, I will crush.

Dikoy feels his strength and power - the power of capital. “Moneybags” were then revered as “eminent people”, before whom the poor were forced to curry favor and grovel. Money is his passion. Parting with them, once they have ended up in his pocket, is painful for Dikiy. “In his house, no one dares say a word about his salary: he’ll scold you for what it’s worth.” Dikoy himself speaks about this best: “What are you going to tell me to do with myself when my heart is like this! After all, I already know that I need to give, but I can’t do everything with goodness!.. I will give, give, and curse. Therefore, just mention to me about money,” it will ignite my entire inner being: it will ignite all my inner being, and that’s all”; well, and at that time I will never swear at a person.” “A shrill guy,” - this is how he characterizes Diky for his rudeness and cursing Curly.

Dikoy gives in only to those who are able to fight back. Once on a transport, on the Volga, he did not dare to contact a passing hussar, and then again took out his resentment at home, dispersing everyone to attics and closets. He restrains his temper even in front of Kabanikha, seeing in her his equal.

The power of money was, however, not the only reason that created the ground for unbridled arbitrariness. Another reason that helped tyranny flourish was ignorance. Dikiy’s ignorance is especially clearly manifested in the scene of his conversation with Kuligin regarding the construction of a lightning rod.

Wild. What do you think a thunderstorm is, huh? Well, speaking!

Kulagin. Electricity.

Wild (stomping his foot). What other kind of elegance is there? Well, how come you’re not a robber! A thunderstorm is sent to us as punishment, so that we feel, and you want to defend yourself with poles and some kind of rods, God forgive me. What are you, a Tatar, or what?

A person's language, manner of speaking and the very intonation of speech usually correspond to the character of the person. This is fully confirmed in the language of the Wild. His speech is always rude and full of abusive, offensive expressions and epithets: robber, worm, parasite, fool, damned, etc. And his distortion foreign words(Jesuit, elicism) only emphasizes his ignorance.

Despotism, unbridled arbitrariness, ignorance, rudeness - these are the features that characterize the image of the tyrant Wild, a typical representative of the “dark kingdom”.

That is why Kabanova is so sad, and that is why Dikoy is so furious: until the last moment they did not want to curtail their broad ambitions and are now in the position of a rich merchant on the eve of bankruptcy. Everything is the same with him, and he sets a holiday today, and he decided on a million-dollar turnover in the morning, and the credit has not yet been undermined; but there are already some dark rumors circulating that he has no cash capital, that his scams are unreliable, and tomorrow several creditors intend to present their demands; there is no money, there will be no reprieve, and the entire edifice of the charlatan phantom of wealth will be overturned tomorrow. The situation is bad... Of course, in such cases, the merchant directs all his concern to deceive his creditors and make them believe in his wealth: just like the Kabanovs and Dikiye are now trying to ensure that the belief in their strength continues. They don’t even expect to improve their affairs; but they know that their willfulness will still have plenty of scope as long as everyone is timid in front of them; and that is why they are so stubborn, so arrogant, so formidable even in the last minutes, of which there are already few left for them, as they themselves feel. The less they feel real strength, the more they are struck by the influence of free, common sense, which proves to them that they are deprived of any rational support, the more impudently and crazily they deny all demands of reason, putting themselves and their arbitrariness in their place. The naivety with which Dikoy says to Kuligin: “I want to consider you a swindler, and I think so; and I don’t care that you are an honest person, and I don’t give an account to anyone why I think so,” this naivety could not have expressed itself in all its tyranny absurdity if Kuligin had not called it out with a modest request: “why?” Are you offending an honest man?..”

Dikoy, you see, wants to cut off any attempt to demand an account from him the very first time, he wants to show that he is above not only accountability, but also ordinary human logic. It seems to him that if he recognizes over himself the laws of common sense, common to all people, then his importance will greatly suffer from this. And in most cases, this is indeed what happens, because his claims are contrary to common sense. This is where eternal dissatisfaction and irritability develops in him. He himself explains his situation when he talks about how difficult it is for him to give out money. “What do you tell me to do when my heart is like this! After all, I already know what I have to give, but I can’t do everything with goodness. You are my friend, and I have to give it to you, but if you come and ask me, I will scold you. I’ll give it, I’ll give it, but I’ll scold you. Therefore, as soon as you mention money to me, it will start to ignite everything inside me; It kindles everything inside, and that’s all... Well, even in those times I would never curse a person.” The giving of money, as a material and visual fact, even in the consciousness of the Wild One awakens some reflection: he realizes how absurd he is, and blames it on “what his heart is like”! In other cases, he is not even fully aware of his absurdity; but by the essence of his character, he must certainly feel the same irritation at any triumph of common sense as when he has to give out money. It’s hard for him to pay for this reason: out of natural egoism, he wants to feel good; everything around him convinces him that this good thing comes from money; hence the direct attachment to money. But here his development stops, his egoism remains within the boundaries of the individual and does not want to know its relationship to society, to its neighbors. He needs more money - he knows this, and therefore he would only like to receive it, and not give it away. When, in the natural course of things, it comes to giving back, he gets angry and swears: he takes it as a misfortune, a punishment, like a fire, a flood, a fine, and not as a proper, legal payment for what others do for him. It’s the same in everything: if he desires good for himself, he wants space, independence; but he does not want to know the law that determines the acquisition and use of all rights in society. He only wants more, as many rights as possible for himself; when it is necessary to recognize them for others, he considers this an attack on his personal dignity, and gets angry, and tries in every possible way to delay the matter and prevent it. Even when he knows that he absolutely must give in, and will give in later, he will still try to cause mischief first. “I’ll give it, I’ll give it, but I’ll scold you!” And one must assume that the more significant the issuance of money and the more urgent the need for it, the more strongly Dikoy swears... From this it follows that, firstly, the swearing and all his rage, although unpleasant, are not particularly terrible, and who, being afraid if he gave up the money and thought that it was impossible to get it, he would have acted very stupidly; secondly, that it would be in vain to hope for the correction of the Wild through some kind of admonition: the habit of fooling around is so strong in him that he obeys it even despite the voice of his own common sense. It is clear that no reasonable convictions will stop him until an external force that is tangible to him is connected to them: he scolds Kuligin, not heeding any reason; and when he was once scolded by a hussar on a ferry, on the Volga, he did not dare contact the hussar, but again took out his insult at home: for two weeks after that, everyone hid from him in attics and closets...

Dobrolyubov N.A. "A ray of light in a dark kingdom"

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Wild. Characteristic

“Until recently, people were very wild”
(L. Dobychin)

Dikoy in Ostrovsky’s play “The Thunderstorm” completely belongs to the “dark kingdom”. A wealthy merchant, the most respected and influential man in the city. But at the same time terribly ignorant and cruel. The characterization of the Wild One in the play “The Thunderstorm” is inextricably linked with the description of the morals and habits of the city residents. Kalinov itself is a fictional space, so the vices spread throughout Russia. By identifying Dikiy’s character traits, one can easily understand the sad social situation that developed in Russia in the 19th century.

The author gives a meager description of the Wild One in “The Thunderstorm”: a merchant, a significant person in the city. Almost not a word is said about appearance. Nevertheless, it is a colorful image. The character's last name speaks for itself. The semantic field of “savagery” is mentioned more than once in the text of the work. In the description of the life of the city of Kalinov, drunkenness, swearing and assault, in other words, savagery, are constantly mentioned. Unmotivated fear of a thunderstorm only strengthens the belief that the inhabitants have stopped at some primitive stage of development. The name Saul is also telling. It belongs to the Christian tradition. This biblical character is known as a persecutor of Christians.

The image of the Wild One in Ostrovsky’s play “The Thunderstorm” is quite unambiguous. There is not a single scene or episode where this character showed his positive qualities. And, in fact, there is nothing to show. The whole of Dikoy seems to consist of bile, dirt and swearing. Almost all of his remarks contain swear words: “Get lost!” I don’t even want to talk to you, to the Jesuit,” “Leave me alone! Leave me alone! Stupid man!”, “Yes, you damned ones will lead anyone into sin!”

Thoughtless submission to those who have more money created a certain legend about the Wild One as the main man in the city. And the wild one behaves in accordance with this conditional status. He is rude to the mayor, steals from ordinary men, threatens Kuligin: “and for these words, send you to the mayor, so he will give you a hard time!”, “So you know that you are a worm. If I want, I’ll have mercy, if I want, I’ll crush.” Dikoy is uneducated. He doesn’t know history, he doesn’t know modernity. The name of Derzhavin and Lomonosov, and even more so the lines from their works, are like the most offensive swearing for Dikiy. The hero's inner world is so poor that the reader has no reason to sympathize with him. Dikoy is not even a hero, but rather a character. There is no internal filling in it. The character of Savl Prokofievich is based on several qualities: greed, selfishness and cruelty. There is absolutely nothing else in the Wild and a priori cannot appear.

One scene from Dikiy’s life remains almost unnoticed by readers. Kudryash says that one day one person was rude to Diky and put him in an awkward position, because of which they laughed at the merchant for another two weeks. That is, Dikoy is actually not at all what he wants to seem. It is laughter that is an indicator of its insignificance and inappropriate pathos.

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