Miss Julie
Movie
• After they have sex • Burns her underwear • Julie - "Tell me you love me" • Julie wants to bring bird on the trip • Reminds me her of home • Jean kills it
Julie vs. Hedda
• Julie is a direct attack against Hedda*** • Julie was raised as a boy, like Hedda • Learned from mother to hate and distrust men • Refuses to be ruled by • Likes to shoot, like Hedda
Realism
Hedda • Things looked real • Can pull out a book • 4th wall down
JULIE'S DEATH
IS JULIE FINALLY TAKING CONTROL
I'm sitting on top of a pillar that I've climbed up somehow and I don't know how to get back down. When I look down I get dizzy. I have to get down but I don't have the courage to jump.
JULIE DREAM - WANTS TO COME DOWN Miss Julie recounts her dream. Tells Jean during his courtship. Metaphor for social position. Julie wants to climb down from her high standing. Jean tells her of his dream, how he wanted to climb up in the world.
Plot
JULIE WANTS LOVE AND APPROVAL • Julie is taking control of her life • Worst one night stand ever • 2 lonely people trying to connect class • Julie is lost wants love and approval • Jean manipulates Julie wants to climb up • What are they fighting for/against • She calls shots makes rules • She can't escape the gossip • Jean has no capital for the hotel
Jean cont.
PRETENDS TO BE GALLANT UNTIL HE LEARNS JULIE IS PENNILESS, ENVIOUS OF HER CLASS • 30 year old valet • Miss Julie's lover on Midsummer's Eve • He pretends to be gallant when seducing Miss Julie • He reveals his cruelty after he has slept with Julie • Jean is envious of her class • He both idealizes and degrades Julie • He becomes a sadist, reveling in Julie's ruin • Reminded by the Count by his boots • Ringing bell - reduces Jean back to his place • Imagines Julie in degrading fantasies
Jean
WEAK BECAUSE SERVANT, ACTS HIGHER WITH JULIE, THEN LOWER WITH COUNT VALET WHO MAKES UP STORY ABOUT CHILDHOOD CRUSH, CULTURED AND FRENCH, SEXY, HAVE BAD SEX IN HIS BEDROOM • Valet • Grew up with 7 siblings • Lied he saw Julie and wanted to kill self • Worked Hotel in Sweden • He's cultured, French, been to theater? • Sexy? Yes. • What is he doing in this house?! • Jean - says come into my bedroom → they have sex • Wasn't that great, pretty miserable
Julie cont.
WILD, (STRINDBERG SAYS HYSTERIA), FEMINIST MOTHER, ENSLAVE MEN, ISN'T IN CONTROL OF THOUGHT • 25 year old • Becomes wild, making advances on Jean the valet • Her behavior indicates sickness • Raised by a feminist mother • Julie is both DIGUSTED and DRAWN TO MEN • She wants to enslave men • She also desires her own fall • Julie isn't in control of her thoughts → kills self
I caught sight of a pink dress and a pair of white stockings. That was you. I crawled under a pile of weeds, under—well, you can imagine what it was like—under thistles that pricked me and wet dirt that stank to high heaven. And all the while I could see you walking among the roses.
Jean's made up story of the Turkish pavilion or outhouse, in attempts to seduce Julie. In his story he sneaks into his master's outhouse, and has to flee through the bottom where he hears someone approach. He runs until he sees Julie on a rose terrace, and it's love at first sight. Jean stands in sinking wet dirt watching Julie from below. Jean in outhouse looking up Julie's dress, and idealizing Julie as an object
You're making me a coward I thought I saw the bell move Afraid of a bell! But it isn't just a bell. There's somebody behind it. A hand that makes it move. And there's something that makes the hand move.—Stop your ears, that's it, stop your ears! But it only rings louder.
Jeans says this after hallucinating when Julie begs him to command her to kill herself. The bell represents the Count's authority. Count's boots and Jean's coat also stand for the Count's power. They automatically return Jean to his weak servant status. Julie is also submissive to the Count. Jean wants to block his ears, but the bell rings louder.
"You'll catch a husband some fine day We'll grow rich Lake como
Julie
"You think I cant stand blood Sex swimming in sea of blood Eat your heart You think I'm weak Carry your offspring"
Julie Julie is strong in this moment When the bird dies, she's ready
Theme
NATURALISM, REAL TIME, CLASS, HEDDA ATTACK, HATE MEN • NATURALISM in Julie > Realism in Hedda • Julie is a direct attack against Hedda*** • Class struggles: Jean climbing and Julie falling • Strindberg hates women and self (Characters whine) • Julie - hates men, but wants men • Jean wants a title, Julie wants a friend • Real time - no skipping time (within Hours) • Only 3 characters • Sex and suicide
but that's what happens when the gentry go slumming, they get slummy.
jean
don't miss julia; no one'll ever believe you stepped down, they'll say you fell
jean
don't you see, i could make you a countess- you could never make me a count
jean
fall to my level, then, and i'll lift you up again
jean
it's horrible - but there's no other way out. go...
jean
jean but you stood for the utter hopelessness of ever rising out of the class where i was born
jean
my lady's finicky enough over some things, a pity she isn't over others! just like the countess when she was alive
jean
my stock's better than yours - no one in my family ever committed arson
jean
there are worse things than being a thief- much worse. besides when i'm working in a house, i look on myself almost like part of the family - one of the children almost.
jean
there will always be barriers between us as long as we are in this house
jean
you can't prove otherwise, since we haven't any pedigree - except in the parish records. but i've seen your family tree in a book on the drawing-room table. d'you know who founded your family? a miller, who let the king sleep with his wife one night in the danish war. i haven't got that sort of ancestor, but i can found myself a family.
jean
and now my mother gets her revenge - through me
julie
julie i haven't a self; i haven't a thought that i don't get from my father, nor an emotion that i don't get from my mother. event this last idea that all human beings are equal - that came from my fiance, and then i call him a beast for his pains
julie
she taught me to mistrust and hate men...and I swore to her that i'd never be a slave to any man
julie
Strindberg on Julie
FEMINIST MOTHER AND INCORRECT FATHER, PERIOD HYSTERIA, SUBMITS TO JEAN, HYPNOTIZED • Strindberg discusses what motivates Julie: "Her mother's primary instincts of her fathers raising her incorrectly, her own nature and the influence of her fiancé on her weak and degenerate brain" • Says she has her period • She is horrified of sex • Her hatred of men leads her to attempt to enslave them sadistically • Julie submits to Jean • Julie slips into a hypnotic state, a trance like condition • Strindberg was interested in psychology, Hysteria was a female disease, when a woman ignored his sexual desires
Midsummer
CLASS STRUCTURE DISAPPEARS Julie dances with Jean • Witches, magic in air • Class structure disappears → can dance with servants
Kristin
COOK, JEAN'S FIANCE, WANTS STABILITY AND ORDER, RELIGIOUS, BELIEVES IN CLASSES, LEARNS THEY HAD SEX AND WANTS TO LEAVE HOUSE • Wants stability and order • 35 year old cook and Jean's fiancé • She gossips with Jean about Miss Julie • She believes wholeheartedly in the class system • When she finds out that Julie and Jean had sex, she decides to leave the house • She denies Julie's plea for help
tell you! surely a gentleman should keep a lady company
julie
Serena Canary
DECAPITATED BY JEAN - REPRESENTS HOW JEAN HURTS JULIE WHERE JULIE IS STRONG - EXPLODES AT JEAN • A Canary • Beheaded by Jean • Decapitation symbolizes the way Jean injuries Julie
Miss Julie
DESTROY MEN, BUT DRAWN TO THEM, TRIED TO TRAIN FIANCE, SHE WANTS TO DRINK, DANCE, BE BAD • Wants to destroy men, but is also drawn to them • Engagement was broken off - She was trying to train him, jump over it • He breaks it and leaves her • Dad Count went to relative's party • Julie doesn't go to relative's party - will have to talk about break up • Wants to dance, drink beer, and be bad - dances with servants • She will do whatever • Servant's opinion - they sing a song about her
Naturalism
HUMAN DIALOGUE OVERLAP, LOWER CLASS, COMPLEX LAYERS, Have moments of just Kristin cooking on a real stove • Next level Realism • Focus on lower class • Complex characters with various layers • *Unbalanced realistic human dialogue (talking over each other) • Rambly - whining - dominoes • Takes 2 characters • Objective view • 2 fisted scenes
Storyline 2
JEAN CONFESSES, JULIE FEELS DESERVES ABUSE, TELL KRISTIN SEX, WANTS TO LEAVE, KILLS CANARY, WANTS TO KILL JEAN AND WHOLE SEX, 3 FLEE, COUNT RINGS BELL, JULIE ASKS TO BE HYPNOTIZED TO SUICIDE • Then Jean says the plans are off • Julie feels like everyone is judging her behind her back and Jean has no sympathy, calls her a ***, says his story was a lie • Julie says she deserves his abuse • Jean tells Christine he slept with Julie, and Christine says she cannot stay in the house • Julie is ready to leave with her birdcage, and Jean kills the bird • Julie says "Kill me too" and wants to see Jean's head on a chopping block, and his entire sex swimming in blood • Asks for Christine's help and she refuses. Julie was the 3 to flee together. • Count rings the bell twice and Jean is immobilized • Julie asks him to pretend to be the Count and hypnotize her, Jean commands Julie to death
Class Structure
JEAN IS JEALOUS OF JULIE'S CLASS JULIE WANTS TO COME DOWN • Julie has a dream she's falling • Jean has a dream he's climbing (social structure) • Mother raises Julie and says sexes are equal, be a man worker • Jean acts like an equal until Count is involved
Jean's story
JULIE ASKS JEAN IF HE HAS EVER BEEN IN LOVE CLAIMS HER KNEW HER AS A CHILD, LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT, ACTS LIKE A GENTLEMAN, LEARNS SHE'S PENNILESS AND CONFESSES HE LIED AND DECEIVED HER, DREAMS OF GRANDEUR, WANTS TO BE LIKE COUNT • Claims he knew Julie as achild • Childhood story: Jean had to flee an outhouse through the botton and emerging form his master's waste, came upon Julie strolling a terrace and fell in love at first sight • Tells her he had a childhood crush on her • Makes her believe he is a gentleman • When Jean learns Miss Julie is penniless, he rejects her and confesses that he has deceived her • Jean dreams of grandeur, wants to open a hotel in Italy and become a count like Julie's father
Hypnotism
JULIE ASKS TO BE HYPNOTIZED CUZ CAN'T COMMIT SUICIDE, JEAN PRETENDS TO BE COUNT COMMANDING HER • Julie asks Jean to hypnotize her at the end, because she lacks the will to commit suicide • Jean lacks the will to command her, so he is to pretend he is the Count giving her an order • The magical power of the father kills Julie • Although Julie is hypnotized, Jean is hypnotized by the Count
yet i know i won't get any peace or rest till i'm on the ground
julie
"Oh, I'd love to see the whole of your sex swimming in a sea of blood just like that. I think I could drink out of your skull You think I loved you because my womb hungered for your seed Bear your child and take your name!—Come to think of it, what is your name anyway? I've never heard your last name. You probably don't even have one. I'd be Mrs. Doorkeeper or Madame Floorsweeper. You dog with my name on your collar—you lackey with my initials on your buttons!"
Julie after Jean decapitates her canary. The most explosive of Julie's hatred of men. Canary = decapitation of St. John the Baptist. In Julie's fantasy, she makes Jean the victim and drowns his entire sex. Julie wants to drown all men and Jean's sexuality. *Julie hates men and longs for sex with them = female hysteric. She wants to kill them and refuses to reproduce. Jean carries Julie's initials on his button which emasculates him, but they are the Count's initials too. She draws power from her father to make an attack on man.
Storyline
KITCHEN, STORY, SEX, MUST LEAVE, NO MONEY • Takes place in kitchen of Count's manor on Midsummer's Eve • Jean tells Cristine she's gone crazy and they danced together • Says Julie has been wild ever since broken engagement, when she made him jump over a riding whip as she beat him • Under Julie's orders, Jean kisses her foot • Tell of dreams climb/fall • Julie asks if he's ever been in love - he tells fake story of her • Determined to see Miss Julie at church and attempted suicide • Guests coming, Jean suggests they flee to his room • Julie and Jean return to the kitchen, they had bad sex • Jean says we can't stay here now • Jean wants to start a Hotel and Julie wants him to say he loves her • Julie says he needs money and she has none
you know what i ought to do if only i had he will-power. Will me to do it, and command me to obey you.
julie
Diana Dog
REPRESENTS JULIE, GET'S KNOCKED UP BY A MONGREL • Miss Julie's dog, looks like her • Dog symbolizes Julie, she has sex with a mongrel dog that belongs to the gatekeeper
heaven help the woman who gets you for a husband, i never knew such a fusspot
kristin
oh, it's some devil's brew that Miss Julia wants, it's for Diana
kristin
the beheading of john the baptist i think
kristin
Pretend that you're him, and that I'm you. You were such a good actor a while ago, when you were kneeling before me. You were the aristocrat then. Or else—have you ever been to the theater and seen a hypnotist? He says to his subject. "Take this broom!" and he takes it. He says, "Now sweep!" and he sweeps.
SAVE HER HONOR BY DYING, At the end of the play defeated Julie asks Jean to save her honor and her father's honor by commanding her to commit suicide. But Jean cannot command her anymore. The return of the Count has left him paralyzed. Julie proposes play-acting and hypnosis. A tragedy because its willful heroine must die. Julie tells Jean he can act like an aristocrat, which indicates that she partially sees him as her equal. However, Julie commands Jean to command her, so she still has the power.
Julie and Jean in the end
SUBMISSIVE TO COUNT, ONLY ABLE TO COMMAND JULIE BY IMAGINING HE IS THE COUNT COMMANDING HIMSELF • Power reversals between the two • The end of the play joins them in their submission to the Count's bell • In the end Jean will only be able to command Julie by imagining that he is the Count commanding himself • The class and gender battles end with Julie's and Jean's submission to their absent Count
Opposites
What is beautiful - Mixing of classes What is ugly - Bird's head chopped off/ Jean lying to Julie about story Weak - In action ← just plan Strong - Count - don't even see him/ His boots sit there Trying to do - Escape/ Plan* Ultimate Value - Dignity and to be respected