(376 words) Cruelty is part of human nature. People are often cruel and heartless towards each other, while they do not think about the possible consequences of their actions. But in vain, because the complete lack of sympathy with others can lead to very tragic consequences. To verify this, we will analyze examples from the literature.
So, in the play “Thunderstorm” by A. N. Ostrovsky, the trader Kabanikh is cruel to his family. She acts as a home tyrant, both for native children and for the unloved daughter-in-law. She controls their every action. A boar can calmly insult any of them and just laugh at it. She enjoys her tyranny, considering it the norm enshrined in Domostroy. Uncontrolled and therefore almost limitless cruelty of Kabanikh leads to a terrible tragedy: poor Katerina, unable to bear her life under the pressure of a soulless merchant, rushes to the Volga and dies. His own son, distraught with grief, blames his mother for everything. But she does not think about the consequences, and even the death of her daughter-in-law is indifferent to her. At the same time, she loses not only the submissive Tikhon, but also the rebel Varvara, who runs away with Kudryash. The danger of cruelty was manifested in its consequences: the boar remained completely alone, the children left her.
Another suitable example was described by A. S. Pushkin in the drama “Boris Godunov”. The main character killed the rightful heir to the throne in order to seize power. But he did not take into account the tension in the political situation, so he himself fell victim to his own cruelty. People knew who was responsible for the death of the prince, and did not let the killer enjoy the rule. Everywhere Godunov was besieged by hostility, no one supported him. The boyars smiled in the face, but they plotted intrigues. Pushkin and Shuisky even kept silent about the approach of False Dmitry with the enemy army. The cruelty of Boris ruined his reputation, because everyone blessed on the porch reproached him with a crime. Thus, the danger of cruelty lies in the fact that the person who manifested it, people will shun. His position, won at such a price, will be very precarious, since nothing wants to support the tyrant and despot.
Cruelty always perniciously affects both its object and the person who displays it. It destroys the soul of the one in whom it has taken over, because the cruel-hearted person has only one bestial desire to prove his power and strength. Sooner or later, everyone will turn their backs on such people, they will not be loved and respected, because they can only instill fear, no more. Cruelty, first of all, is dangerous by loneliness, which covers in a gloomy veil a madman who has become a slave to his vice.
