Introduction: This play is a famous play in Strindberg, and friends who love theater are definitely not to be missed. This is the story of the noble lady and the maid, about the feelings but not a love story, although it is about the feelings, but the feelings are not so pure, and this ending, is not so beautiful. This is also a play that I personally like, and if you are interested, you can briefly understand this play with me.
Miss Julie This play tells that Julie is a lady of the aristocratic family, her mother raised her as a boy from an early age, and wants to prove through her that men can do things that girls can do, Julie has been strictly disciplined, has always been on the top, she even wants to tame her fiancé like a tamed beast, but the fiancé can't stand to break up.
The story takes place on a midsummer night when the Duke's father is out, the maid Jean is flirting with the kitchen lady Christine, Julie has to pull Jean to dance, deliberately seduce and tease Jean, let the initial because of the disparity in status has been rejected, and finally have a relationship. After that, Julie did not know how to get along with herself, let the attitude towards her also plummeted, the two insulted and spit on each other, but Julie still begged to let her leave, and finally even stole her father's money, the two of them were found by Jean's lover Kitchen Lady Christine, Christine also looked down on Julie, obstructed the two, let in order to run away smoothly, killed Julie's pet bird, Julie was heartbroken, when the two were deadlocked, Julie's father, the Earl, returned.
Let me quickly recognize the reality and return to my original position. Julie was full of grief and anger and had no way out, and Jean, in order to ensure safety, also encouraged Julie to go to the end of the road.
Through the introduction, it seems that it is difficult to understand why Julie is committed to the male servant and why she has embarked on a desperate road. We can't look at this play with modern eyes. Julie's cognition of herself is out of balance, she is biologically female, but because of her mother's concept, she has been doing boys' things since she was a child, she is not in love with Jean, she seduces Jean, but it is just to prove her feminine charm, committed to Jean, more also stemming from desire and curiosity.
She did not care about the consequences, coveted temporary pleasures, experienced the pleasure of indulgence, proved her charm, and had to bear what she should bear.
And let this man, very hard to climb up, but he still has a sense of awe for class differences in his heart, so when Julie teased him, he always refused, but he was a man after all, and in the face of a beautiful, noble woman deliberately seducing, he still accepted. And it was the two who had a relationship, and Jean discovered that there was no insurmountable gap between the high lady and him, and began to despise her.
Julie wanted all the men to submit to him, but she crawled at the men's feet and begged for mercy.
Julie is rebellious and contradictory, she enjoys the dividends brought to her by gender and identity, but she wants to escape the shackles brought to her by gender and identity, but how can there be a double law in the world. Therefore, she can't get rid of her own gender, her own class, and she can't get rid of the education she received since childhood, can't get rid of the fait accompli after those impulses, and can't get rid of the eyes of others. In the end, he fell into a contradiction, and he did not know what he needed, becoming a situation that was almost crazy.
And Julie's suicide cannot be seen in a modern light. In that period, the lady of the noble family, who had relations with the so-called inferior, could drown Julie with mere spit, not to mention that, never appeared, but the majestic duke father.
This was an accidental act, but it was also the inevitable result of her character experience.
Experience is character, character is destiny.
Julie has a thief's heart and a thief's guts, but that is just a momentary brain fever of the "evil to the guts", but whether it is a "thief's heart" or a "thief's guts", if she has this thought, she is already a "thief". Taking herself too seriously is the "thief's heart", just as Julie initially thought that the whole world should be impressed by her. And too much to take others seriously, that is, "thief guts", Julie thinks that she can control Jean, but Jean is a living person, not an animal, not a little girl who has never been able to control.
Jean doesn't love Julie, doesn't love Christine, he loves money, loves power, loves status. At first, he longed for Julie, who were people of two worlds, but after he had a relationship with Julie, he found that there was no difference between the superior people and them. When he put on Julie's fiancé's clothes, he also became cognitively out of balance, thinking that he could become a world person with Julie. Later, he verbally suppressed Julie and slandered and ridiculed, but only to break through the class. But in fact, he was very timid and realistic, and he was afraid when he saw the earl's boots, and when the count returned, he was even more afraid of taking responsibility and inducing Julie to commit suicide.
Jean's lover Christine is like a bystander, like the public opinion and opinion of society on the combination of Julie and Jean, under her pressure, Julie has to face up to her situation.
On the contrary, until now, in fact, when we watch the play, we are looking at ourselves, and we can more or less find our own refraction in the characters in the play.
We often encounter cognitive dissonance in our lives, but after encountering indulgence, we pay a tragic price, and when we encounter a period of rebellion, everything must be seen through the surface to see the essence. Maybe we can't see our own problems when we are in the middle of things, but when watching the play, we stand in God's perspective, and it is easy to see the problem. It's hard to separate yourself from the outside world, but if you do, you'll discover a new world.
In fact, the author is also a very powerful person, he is a person like Jean, the author who can analyze himself is worthy of admiration, and there are very few people who can face themselves, especially their shortcomings. A writer can objectively understand himself and dissect himself in order to write excellent works.
This is not a love drama, dissecting the society at that time, analyzing the desire and ugliness in the hearts of men and women, and also alerting future generations.
The play, short, powerful, and vocal.
And this is a wake-up call for us, there are many, for example, we can't be reckless before doing things, and if we do something recklessly, we have to bear the consequences, and we don't have to complain about the world. For example, for a screenwriter, it is very attractive and thought-provoking to extract oneself, dissect oneself, and write a work that is very attractive and thought-provoking.
This is the charm of a good work, no matter from which aspect can bring us thinking. This is a work that I like, and I hope that a good work can be introduced to more people.