Miss Julie is a play written by Johan August Strindberg in 1888. Strindberg was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter born in 1849 in Stockholm, Sweden. The play consists of three characters, Miss Julie, a 25 year old woman who is the daughter of a count, Jean, the 30 year old valet, and Kristin, the 35 year old cook. The play takes place in the count’s manor house in Sweden, on a midsummer eve in the 1880’s. Strindberg describes the kitchen in great detail, he talks about the amount of doors there are and where they lead to, and also a fountain in the courtyard outside of the kitchen. Strindberg uses excessive description for the reader to be able to imagine the scene and everything that is going on. The play opens with
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Jean comes back alone from the dance and Miss Julie follows him. As Jean and Miss Julie talk, Kristin falls asleep. Miss Julie tells Jean about her dream where she is climbing down from her social position while Jean tells her that he has dreamed the opposite. As they speak, Kristin goes to her bedroom, Miss Julie starts Flirting with Jean, he tries to kiss her but she boxes his ears. They later continue to talk, and he tells her that he grew up in a labourer’s hovel and how the Count's garden was visible from his window. He tells her how one day he went to the garden, and while weeding the onion beds, he saw a Turkish pavilion which caught his attention. He was so attracted by it so he entered it, but he heard someone coming. While running away, he saw her and watched her walk on a rose terrace and fell in love with her. After continuing the story, he asks her if he can go to bed but she tells him to take her out to the lake but they then hear the voice of peasants singing and heading to the kitchen, so they both enter Jean’s room and have sexual contact. When they are done they head back to the …show more content…
He tells her that they should run away to the Italian lakes and start a hotel, she then begs him to declare his love. Rudely, he tells her to be calm and act as if nothing has happened between them. Jean wants Julie to pay for his plan but when she says she doesn’t have a single penny, so he shuts the plan off. Julie becomes hysterical and wonders how she can live with everyone pointing at her. Jean becomes ruder and calls her a whore, and later reveals that his story of the rose terrace was a lie. They then start to talk angrily and Jean reveals to Miss Julie who he really is which is a man who wanted to have sex with a younger woman and use her for her money. When they calm down, Julie tells him about her past and how her mother was cheating on her father. Later, Jean tells her he wants to sleep but Julie can’t stay at the Count’s house after what she’s done so she begs him to tell her what to do. Scared of the consequences of the Count, Jean tells her to go so she leaves to prepare for her departure. When Miss Julie leaves Kristin enters the room and finds out what has happened between the other two. They hear footsteps upstairs and it is the
Jean comes back alone from the dance and Miss Julie follows him. As Jean and Miss Julie talk, Kristin falls asleep. Miss Julie tells Jean about her dream where she is climbing down from her social position while Jean tells her that he has dreamed the opposite. As they speak, Kristin goes to her bedroom, Miss Julie starts Flirting with Jean, he tries to kiss her but she boxes his ears. They later continue to talk, and he tells her that he grew up in a labourer’s hovel and how the Count's garden was visible from his window. He tells her how one day he went to the garden, and while weeding the onion beds, he saw a Turkish pavilion which caught his attention. He was so attracted by it so he entered it, but he heard someone coming. While running away, he saw her and watched her walk on a rose terrace and fell in love with her. After continuing the story, he asks her if he can go to bed but she tells him to take her out to the lake but they then hear the voice of peasants singing and heading to the kitchen, so they both enter Jean’s room and have sexual contact. When they are done they head back to the …show more content…
He tells her that they should run away to the Italian lakes and start a hotel, she then begs him to declare his love. Rudely, he tells her to be calm and act as if nothing has happened between them. Jean wants Julie to pay for his plan but when she says she doesn’t have a single penny, so he shuts the plan off. Julie becomes hysterical and wonders how she can live with everyone pointing at her. Jean becomes ruder and calls her a whore, and later reveals that his story of the rose terrace was a lie. They then start to talk angrily and Jean reveals to Miss Julie who he really is which is a man who wanted to have sex with a younger woman and use her for her money. When they calm down, Julie tells him about her past and how her mother was cheating on her father. Later, Jean tells her he wants to sleep but Julie can’t stay at the Count’s house after what she’s done so she begs him to tell her what to do. Scared of the consequences of the Count, Jean tells her to go so she leaves to prepare for her departure. When Miss Julie leaves Kristin enters the room and finds out what has happened between the other two. They hear footsteps upstairs and it is the