Essays Tagged: "Strindberg"
August Strindberg "Miss Julie", dramatic elements, synopsis, analysis
Miss JulieBy: August StrindbergJoe WilsonTheatre History IIGENRE: Naturalistic TragedySETTING: Midsummer Eve, in the kitc ... erself, and she does.Denouement:None, as Jean's command to "Go!" ends the play.REACTION/ANALYSIS:As Strindberg is a master of Naturalism, and as Miss Julie was a piece intended to demonstrate the genr ... he representation of reality that the piece presents.The first item of interest, I believe, is that Strindberg was quite specific in his description of the set. (I am acting under the assumption that ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Drama
A compare and contrast of Ibsen and Strindberg and their view on women
Ibsen and Strindberg are two playwrights of the same period, the Industrial Revolution. This is a time when th ... how women should really be treated. Such notions give way to very controversial theatre. Ibsen and Strindberg strongly demonstrate how these issues were reasoned.It generally seems as though Ibsen an ... you tend to see that their views on women are not that different. In Ibsen's A Doll's House and in Strindberg's Miss Julie it looks as if the women are mere objects. The women appear more like puppet ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Drama
Discuss the role of women in Strindberg's plays.
In the preface to his play Miss. Julie, Strindberg states that a modern woman who tries to be equal to a man, "implies a retro-gressive step ... a man, "implies a retro-gressive step in evolution, an inferior species who cannot endure". (p 68, Strindberg) As is notable from this quote, Strindberg believed passionately in the inferiority of wo ... pt literally to train her fiancé like a dog; Miss Julie has become "absolutely crazy" (p 76, Strindberg), making shameless advances to her valet, Jean, on Midsummer Eve. In his preface to the p ...
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"It's man versus woman all day long, endlessly" (Strindberg). To what extent is this supported by your reading of Miss Julie?
"It is man versus woman all day long endlessly" (Strindberg). Do I agree with this statement after having read the play? The representation we get of ... iss Julie through the gossips from the outset shows the plays investment I her degeneracy and ruin. Strindberg portrays Miss Julie as being hysterical which was considered to be a female sickness in h ... , he symbolically breaks her masculine power over him. Therefore from the beginning we can see that Strindberg's Miss Julie will be about the battle of the sexes "man versus woman", the survival of th ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Drama