Miss Julie (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: August Strindberg
- First Published: 1888
- Type of Work: Play
- Type of Plot: Naturalism
- Time of Work: Nineteenth century
- Setting: A country estate in Sweden
- Genres: Naturalistic literature, Drama
- Subjects: France or French people, Nineteenth century, Literature, Lawyers, Servants, Personality, Tragedy, Environment or environmental health, Sweden or Swedish people
- Locales: Sweden
Characters Discussed
Miss Julie, a headstrong young woman, the daughter of a count. She has derived from her mother a hatred of men and of women’s subservient role. As the drama begins, the household servants are scandalized over the circumstances of Miss Julie’s broken engagement: She had made her fiancé jump over her horsewhip several times, giving him a cut with the whip each time, and he had left her. Subsequently, she takes advantage of her father’s absence to join the holiday dancing of the servants. She makes love to her father’s not unwilling valet, Jean, and...
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