Countess Julie

Description

Countess Julie or mostly known as Miss Julie is a realistic drama penned in 1888 by the Swedish playwright, August Strindberg. It took place on the Eve of Midsummer on the royal castle of a Count in Sweden. The young lady in the title of the play is concentrated to an older valet whose name is Jean, and is usually out on many trips, have good manners and well educated. The play sets in the kitchen of the estate of the father of Count Julie, where the fiancée of Jean whose name is Christine, does household chores and at times sleeps when Jean and Countess Julie have conversations.

In that evening, the connection between Countess Julie and Jean deepened and heightened quickly and they both fell in love with each other and their relationship eventually effectuated. During the play, Countess and Jean had petty fights, then Jean persuades her that the only remedy to evade her dilemma is to kill herself.

Johan August Strindberg was a dramatist, author, poet, essayist and painter from Sweden. He was a well-recognized author who frequently gets his ideas from his life experiences, his literary career spontaneously lasted for four decades, and he had written more than 60 plays and over 30 texts of fiction, autobiography, history, cultural analysis, and politics. He was an established adventurer and cynic all throughout, he discovered a variety of play methods and strategies, from naturalistic tragedy, monodrama, and history plays, to his apprehension of stylish and dreamlike dramatic methods. From one of his primary works, he created new techniques of theatrical action, language and visualization. Strindberg is regarded as the father of today’s Swedish literature and his work, The Red Room in 1879 has often been considered as the first creative Swedish text. In his country, Sweden, he is remarked as an essayist, painter, poet, and of course as an author and playwright, but in several other countries he is known largely as a playwright.
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