Scribd Logo
Upload

Welcome to Scribd!

  • 22 views

    Miss Julie Concept

    Uploaded by

    Sophia Cox
    The document provides a summary of the play "Miss Julie" by August Strindberg. It discusses the plot, which follows Julie and Jean, a count's daughter and a valet, who come from different class levels but engage in a sexual relationship. After they have sex, Jean no longer wants anything to do with Julie, stripping her of her status. The analysis argues the play illustrates the ugliness of class divides and gender roles in society at the time, with women often seen merely as sex objects regardless of their social status. It maintains presenting this play remains important today to highlight how women are frequently taken advantage of and to challenge common portrayals of gender and power dynamics.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Miss Julie Concept

    Uploaded by

    Sophia Cox
    22 views2 pages
    The document provides a summary of the play "Miss Julie" by August Strindberg. It discusses the plot, which follows Julie and Jean, a count's daughter and a valet, who come from different class levels but engage in a sexual relationship. After they have sex, Jean no longer wants anything to do with Julie, stripping her of her status. The analysis argues the play illustrates the ugliness of class divides and gender roles in society at the time, with women often seen merely as sex objects regardless of their social status. It maintains presenting this play remains important today to highlight how women are frequently taken advantage of and to challenge common portrayals of gender and power dynamics.

    Copyright

    © © All Rights Reserved

    Available Formats

    DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Did you find this document useful?

    Is this content inappropriate?

    The document provides a summary of the play "Miss Julie" by August Strindberg. It discusses the plot, which follows Julie and Jean, a count's daughter and a valet, who come from different class levels but engage in a sexual relationship. After they have sex, Jean no longer wants anything to do with Julie, stripping her of her status. The analysis argues the play illustrates the ugliness of class divides and gender roles in society at the time, with women often seen merely as sex objects regardless of their social status. It maintains presenting this play remains important today to highlight how women are frequently taken advantage of and to challenge common portrayals of gender and power dynamics.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as docx, pdf, or txt
    22 views2 pages

    Miss Julie Concept

    Uploaded by

    Sophia Cox
    The document provides a summary of the play "Miss Julie" by August Strindberg. It discusses the plot, which follows Julie and Jean, a count's daughter and a valet, who come from different class levels but engage in a sexual relationship. After they have sex, Jean no longer wants anything to do with Julie, stripping her of her status. The analysis argues the play illustrates the ugliness of class divides and gender roles in society at the time, with women often seen merely as sex objects regardless of their social status. It maintains presenting this play remains important today to highlight how women are frequently taken advantage of and to challenge common portrayals of gender and power dynamics.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as docx, pdf, or txt
    of 2

    Sophie Cox

    Julie Wunsch

    History of Theatre 2

    April 10, 2023

    The play, Miss Julie, follows Julie and Jean who are two completely different status

    levels. Julie is the Court’s daughter, while Jean is a valet and servant to the Court, who is

    married to Christine, another servant. Jean explains why he thinks Julie is going crazy because

    of her engagement breaking up because of how she treated her former fiancé, by forcing him

    to jump through a hoop with a whip like a dog. The story then continues as Julie asked Jean

    for a dance, using her rank as a ruse to get him to agree, and when flirting Jean tells a

    childhood story of how he used to love Julie. Once they have sex, Jean says he cannot live in

    Julie’s house anymore as they will be tempted to continue their sexual relations if they do.

    They then agree to run away together and start a hotel. When Julie tries to bring her bird

    along, Jean cuts the head off the animal. They are then caught by Christine telling them the

    court has returned, and they lose their motivation to continue their plan. Julie, desperate, asks

    Jean what to do, he then hands her a razor and she goes off to commit suicide.

    I believe this story was written to show the ugliness of fallen out marriages and class

    levels and how being a woman can affect your role in society. For example, Julie uses her

    class level as what can be seen as an advantage, but it is really not a good thing in retrospect

    because she forced him to dance with her, while he hesitated and did not want to, claiming she

    was higher than her so she deserves it. Then, on the other hand with Jean, once they have sex,
    he strips her of her status and no longer wants anything to do with her since he got what he

    wanted.

    I think it is important to present this play today to show a contrast in what we usually

    see, which is a man having a higher status then women, and something we always see, which

    is a man taking advantage of a woman in order to get something he wants. It is shown in many

    plays, but I believe it is important to continue to jam into people’s heads so people start

    actually listening to it and seeing the pattern in not only plays, movies, shows, but also in real

    life. Women are constantly seen as sex objects, and even when a man has a lower status then a

    woman, she is still seen as someone you could have sex with and nothing else.

    An audience member after watching this show or reading the play can think it is

    repetitive and shown too much in plays, but I think this can be used as an advantage to drill it

    into people’s heads like I mentioned before.

    You might also like