nikogatts 's review for:

Miss Julie by August Strindberg

4.0

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Tracked this down after seeing the 2014 movie adaptation.

My opinion of this play is complicated, because I can appreciate it while also acknowledging that the author's intent was complete shit. August Strindberg was an avowed misogynist, who wrote this play with the intent of portraying the titular character, who seduces her servant, as an example of how her gender is unstable, twisted, and simultaneously over-emotional and emotionally stunted.

I prefer to see this play as a class conflict:

Spoiler

Miss Julie is isolated due to her status as a countess, and Jean the valet is limited in his prospects by his own class. Over the course of a single night, they attempt to find a way out through each other: Miss Julie engineers her own fall through a tryst with Jean, while Jean attempts to get his employer's daughter to fund his dreams. Predictably, it ends poorly.