Miss Julie
In Miss Julie, by August Strindberg wrote about the naturalistic view of human behavior. He symbolizes the behavior through animal imagery. The animal image Strindberg uses helps him exemplify his naturalistic view. The first animal imagery Strindberg uses is the dog. Jean uses the dog imagery to describe to Kristen how Miss Julie made her ex-fiancé act before the break-up. “ Why, she was making him jump over her riding whip the way you teach a dog to jump.” A dog is mans best friend only because a dog is an extremely loyal animal. Having Jean compare what Miss Julies did to her ex-fiancé with what some one would do to a dog shows Miss Julies drive to be the dominant one or the master. Strindberg again uses the imagery of a dog when he has Miss Julie say, “dog who wears my collar” to Jean. Miss Julie feels that her social status is so much superior to that of Jean that their relationship could be compared to that of a master and his dog. The dog imagery in the play is also used to demonstrate the difference in social classes. In the play Miss Julie’s dog, Diana, is impregnated by the lodge-keepers pug. Kristen demonstrates Miss Julie’s disgust when she says; “She almost had poor Diana shot for running after the lodge-keepers pug.” The sexual affair between the dogs also represents the sexual affair between Jean and Miss Julie and how the two of them look down on each other. Jean looks down on Miss Julie for being surprisingly easy to obtain. While Miss Julie loo...
In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how august strindberg symbolizes the naturalistic view of human behavior through animal imagery.
- Analyzes how jean looks down on miss julie for being surprisingly easy to obtain, while comparing himself to a mad dog. strindberg uses imagery of horses to illustrate jean's physical stature.
- Analyzes how strindberg uses the imagery of a hawk after jean and miss julie are intimate.
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In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how august strindberg depicts a tormented, sadomasochistic woman held captive by ingrained and inherent restrictions posed onto her by her
- Analyzes how the dog, diana, symbolizes julie as a person and her desires to defect from societal expectations.
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In this essay, the author
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