ENGL 314 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Hamartia, Misogyny
29 Jan 2018
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A page before the drama miss julie begins, we see the title: "a naturalistic tragedy" - a hint from strindberg that this play is a hybrid. He believes it"s too easy to think humans are determined by their environment. Miss julie is overtly a modern human being in the play. A misogynist representation of modern feminism is shown in the character miss julie and her upbringing. The play portrays her behavior (what she did to her ex fianc ) as stemming from her upbringing. When he says, "if you block your ears it rings even louder" it"s a metaphor for the bell being within him, and internalized fear. The count is never in the play; an absence presence represented by his boot and the bell. The image of the ringing bell that forces all of them to obey in a manner that makes them trapped prefaces an enormous amount of 20th century theatre.
