August Strindberg

Miss Julie is naturalistic play written by August Strindberg in 1888. A naturalistic piece is a more extreme form of realism that is defined as “An avant-garde movement, which flourished between 1880 and 1914, that portrayed heredity and environmental factors as the primary causes of human behavior through the accurate rendition of external realities,” explains editor Tobin Nellhaus. Miss Julie contains these naturalistic elements as it takes place in real time and focuses heavily on survival of…

Unit 4 Individual Project (Dramatic Writing and Poetry) The dramatic one-act play used for this project is entitled The Stronger, written by a man named August Strindberg in the year 1889. The characters in the play are two females known as Madame X and Mademoiselle Y. Madame X is very well spoken and proper. She appears to come from a higher class of society from the proper way that she speaks as well as the way she spoke of having servants. Madame X seems to be a very opinionated and…

The impression that Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman left upon Scandinavian cinema and culture will certainly never be matched. Bergman continues to stand as one of Sweden’s most prominent artists due to his work both behind the camera, and within the theater. The rich feelings and emotion that Bergman filled his movies with forced people to see past the mere spectacle of film, and look within the soul of an auteur whose spirit lived within his art. Ingmar Bergman, born Ernst Ingmar Bergman,…

The ring was the only thing holding her back to finding her true self. She also asks for her ring back, showing that she was taking her freedom back. In the text, “Woman in a Doll’s house” by August Strindberg, he writes, “Then Nora says a few sensible things. She wants to give up her marriage in order to find herself. The question is whether she could not do that just as well in the same house with her love for Helmer” (985). Has a married woman,…