Miss Julie/Strindberg

What inherited trait does the nobility or upper class still have when Strindberg refers to as "a hindrance to the survival of the race"?

A sense of honor

Why does s request the set only show parts of the room and parts of the furniture?

Allows the audience to use their imagination

What does Strindberg refer to as "unreliable mechanisms of thought"?

Feelings

What language does Jean speak that surprised Julie?

French

What we often refer to presentational style or breaking the fourth wall, he refers to as?

Greeting a friend

What is happening offstage with Jean and Julie while the ensemble was onstage dancing?

Having sex

Jean is superior to Miss Julie because?

He is a man

What is Jean's professional aspiration?

He wants to open a hotel on a lakeside

Who does Jean suggest is responsible for Julie's craziness?

Her mother

Strindberg clearly has some belief in the creative talents of actors, as he suggests they have the ability to do what?

Improvise

What does Julie do when Jean first attempts to put her arm around her waist?

Slaps him in the face

Jean tells Julie a story where he is attempting to kill himself - how?

Slept under a poison bush in the open

According to Strindberg, Jean is more interested in saying what is favorable to himself than?

Telling the truth

What scent of perfume does Julie wear?

Violet

Where is the Count while Julie at home dancing with the servants?

Visiting relatives

Who is in agreement with for hiding orchestra, elimination of theatre boxes, dimming of the lights in the auditorium?

Wagner

Strindberg states thirteen distinct and specific circumstances for Julie's tragic fate. Name one.

1. The way her father raised her 2. Her menstruation 3.

How long does he suggest a performance Miss Julie should last?

1.5 hours

Describe the physical setting/playing area for Miss Julie.

Kitchen with working oven, several chairs to sit on, a counter with cutting board, doorway to outside

What genre does he think Miss Julie to be?

A comedy

What does Julie intend to do when she walks out at the end of the play?

Commit suicide

Why does Strindberg suggest confining the action to one setting?

Economic restraints, allows characters to interact more with their environment

Who decided that on the count's estate, women would do men's jobs and women would do men's jobs?

Julie's mother

Why did Julie and her family end up sleeping in their carriages when she was a child?

Julie's mother burnt their house down the day after their insurance expired

What is Julie hoping the slop that Christine is cooking for Diana will do to her?

Make her vomit and induce a miscarriage

What does Jean and Julie drink together at the table?

Beer

Strindberg exhibits an especially anti-egalitarian perspective when he states "Ordinary people are abstract to some extent in their occupation" About which character is he referring to?

Christine

Who ultimately ends Jean and Julie's plan to run away together?

Christine tells the horse-keepers to impound the houses

What great 19th century thinker does Strindberg reference when describing the paradoxical nature of naturalistic characters?

Darwin

What has happened to Julie's recent engagement?

It was broken off because he wouldn't submit to Julie's domineering demands

What happened to Serena?

Jean cuts of her head (Serena is the chicken)

What time of year is Miss Julie set?

Midsummer Eve

What does Strindberg suggest about makeup?

Minimal or none

Strindberg uses an Aristotelian concept when he states "the alteration of rising and falling fortunes is one life's delights" - to what Aristotelian term is he referring to?

Peripeteia or reversal

What type/s is the theory to Miss Julie?

Prescriptive, but could argue all three

What does Strindberg state the theme of Miss Julie is?

Problem of social rising and falling

What does Jean insist on drinking with his meal?

Red wine

What lighting innovation does Strindberg suggest?

Removal of footlights and strong side lighting

When Christine learns of the affair between Jean and Julie, what is her immediate reaction?

She is going to quit her job and encourages Jean to quit as well