"Miss Julie"

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This paper discusses how responsibility for one's own death is a hard conclusion to come by, especially if that person had killed him/herself. It examines how, in "Miss Julie" by August Strindberg, the character Julie commits suicide and how there are a number of reasons for someone else to be the blamed for her death. It analyzes how, without any doubt, there are even more reasons for Julie's mother and father to be blamed for her death, and it looks at the effect of her childhood and upbringing on her suicide.

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"The major and minor characters in the story play a roll that may have caused her some distress but not enough to be considered the people responsible for the Miss Julie's death. Jean, the valet, was a laborer's son who became a gentleman through educating himself. He is a person that has turned his back on the others in his class due to the fact to his drive to become something he is not. He has both the slave's character of brutality and the master's lack of squeamishness. This causes him to see blood without fainting and take disaster by the horns. Having these qualities are causing him to, perhaps, give Julie the impression of him not caring about things in her life or him being able to tell her what she wants to hear even if they are not the right thing to do."

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