Miss Julie

The trigger for sympathy for the eponymous character Miss Julie The inevitability of fate as a motor for drama has been used through the ages and August Strindberg’s controversial play Miss Julie falls into this grouping of literary classics. The eponymous protagonist (daughter of a count and a commoner), is driven by a hereditary need to integrate with the lower class yet simultaneously lord over them. Using her sexuality but also tempted by lowering herself socially, she beds her servant, Jean, leading to her suicide at the closing of the play. Through the characterization of Julie, Strindberg demonstrates the existentialist theory that humans may make choices, however these will only prolong their inevitable fate, which in turn may trigger strong sympathy in…

Despite offering a different character’s point of view, several of the dramatic techniques resident in Miss Julie are exhibited. Even more importantly, Strindberg again insists on placing the family of the play in the context of a Darwinian battle of the strongest. It is natural for us to expect similarities between The Father and Miss Julie due to the close proximity of their writing, but the points made about Strindberg’s later work help provide an additional insight into the playwright’s…

August Strindberg’s play ‘Miss Julie’ is a master playwright that has been the basis of critical controversy. Written during summer in 1888, the play was censored entirely in Europe during the late Nineteenth Century. The play was believed to deal with situations that were deemed as socially offensive. As much as the play presents a dramatic method which is characterised by an urge to experiment, the innovation Strindberg sought to cultivate were designed with having a social and moral agenda in…

band performances, talent shows, karaoke nights as goofy as that sounds, and even plays. As such I thought seeing a live performance of Miss Julie at the Arkansas Tech Theatre would lighten my spirits and shine a light on some the young talent in the world that happens to live next door to myself. What was performed on that stage far passed any expectation, any standard, and definitely wiped any doubts I had. Upon first entering the theatre my mood was of course a little down because I was…

August Strindberg in the play ‘Miss Julie’ communicates the complicated and conflicted mind of the character Miss Julie through her actions in the play. Despite her materialistic fortune, her parents’ absence throughout her life, her mother’s lies, and rejection of her as a girl & a daughter shapes her into an empty shell of a person. The story reveals her effort to escape the cipher of her being as she ‘uses’ Jean and in the end commits suicide, in order to not be a nothing even if it means to…

In the play, Miss Julie, Strindberg has effectively incorporated the theory of naturalism; the theory of naturalism encompassed the idea that a person and their motivations are rooted from their environment and their ancestry. In the case of Miss Julie, the daughter of a Count, she was ultimately thought to have gained the upper hand by being born into a family of status. However, her position in society quickly deteriorates when her engagement is broken off and she copulates with Jean, the…

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…

initially defy social norms but will eventually give in to their sexual desires hence become inferior again. In Miss Julie the female and male roles are questioned constantly, and ultimately Strindberg humiliates women that attempt to transcend their conventional gender norms through Julie. The interactions between Miss Julie, a high class female and Jean, her poor male servant embody the author´s internal ideas on the matter. This depiction of power battles reflect Strindberg's beliefs of…

August Strindberg’s play Miss Julie written during the Victorian age exemplified the conflicts created within a master-servant relationship. During this time, the elite: the rich, property owners, aristocrats were thought to be superior to the masses. This is exactly, the kind of society that philosopher, Karl Marx detested. Marx supported the lower class: the common people, the servants, the masses and believed that the masses untimely had the potential to rise above the oppressors if they…

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…