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This book selects several of Ostrovsky's plays that are famous among Chinese readers. "Thunderstorm" exposes the darkness of feudal serfdom and patriarchal patriarchy through the tragedy of family life. Katerina is the most beautiful and moving tragic female image in Russian drama in the 19th century. Dobrolyubov, a 19th-century Russian revolutionary democratic critic, once spoke highly of the ideological and artistic value of Katerina's image, calling her "a ray of light in the kingdom of darkness." The content of "The Girl Without a Dowry" is that a girl reluctantly agreed to marry someone she did not like. Later, her old lover Baratov suddenly returned. The innocent girl could not see that Baratov was an ungrateful lover and expressed her hope to resume the old relationship with him. The cynical Baratov took advantage of the situation. Two other entrepreneurs also planned to take possession of the girl who did not have a dowry. In the end, the girl realized that they did not treat her as an equal human being, and she died at the hands of her fiancé.