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This paper analyzes the impact of power relations in August Strindberg's play "Miss Julie." According to the paper, Strindberg packs an enormous amount of psychological and sociological complexity into a short play, just as in real life where psychological and sociological factors are interwoven. The paper further considers the issue of power, which is central to the play, given that the two leads are Miss Julie, a noblewoman, and Jean, a footman to her father. This essay examines how the play treats the issue of power, with particular focus on psychological domination and submission, the relative social status of the two principals and the issue of gender-bending.

From the Paper
"In 'Miss Julie', Strindberg packs an enormous amount of psychological and sociological complexity into a short play. As in real life, psychological and sociological factors are interwoven. The issue of power is central to the play, given that the two leads are Miss Julie, a noblewoman, and Jean, a footman to her father. This essay examines how the play treats the issue of power, focusing on three elements: psychological domination and submission; the relative social status of the two principals; and the issue of gender-bending. As will be shown, all of these elements relate to each other, with a common theme of changes in power balances."

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Abstract
This essay examines how August Strindberg's play, "Miss Julie", treats the issue of power, focusing on three elements: psychological domination and submission; the relative social status of the two principals; and the issue of gender-bending. The paper demonstrates how all of these elements relate to each other, with a common theme of changes in power balances.

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"An element of psychological domination and submission is introduced early in this play. Nowadays we might use terms such as dominatrix, or SM (sadomasochism), but these terms are not explicitly used in the play. However, it is quite clear that these kinds of psycho-sexual power games are in fact occurring, as the two principals vie with each other for power."

Tags:power, domination, submission, society

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In Sophocles's "Antigone" and William Shakespeare's "The Tempest", two very different, yet similar, displays of power on the parts of Creon and Prospero are the basis of the plots of their respective stories. This paper explains how both Creon and Prospero use their power relations to impose their own ideals on the societies in which they live. Creon uses his power on the throne to impose his own laws and beliefs on the people, while Prospero uses his supernatural powers, ultimately, for the good of his community, as well as personal gain. It explains that these examples of power relations, as shown by Sophocles and Shakespeare, serve the purpose of demonstrating to the readers that authority figures and government are capable of imposing whatever they wish on the people, in some cases causing unnecessary grief for many.

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"Traditionally, authority figures tend to flaunt their power in search of personal gain and intimidation. In The Tempest, Prospero uses his magical powers to employ the use of a servant and a spirit to assist him in his personal chores and to keep the island running smoothly. In Antigone, Creon uses his royal power, more or less, to his personal advantage, with no obvious benefit to society. Prospero's supernatural abilities are made evident when Miranda accuses him, "by your art thy dearest father, you have / put the wild waters in this roar."(Shakespeare, I. ii. 1-2). In light of this, one may be led to believe that Prospero is trying to hurt those on the ship who have hurt him in the past but, in fact, Prospero only creates this storm out of love for his daughter who is in search of a mate, and Ferdinand, who is on board the ship seems to be a logical candidate. Prospero ensures that no one is harmed by the storm by sending his spirit, Aerial, to keep watch over the ship."

Tags:authoritative, ferdinand, grief, law, moral, power

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The paper examines how August Strindberg makes use of the form of the dream in the plays "A Dream Play" and "The Ghost Sonata," with varied results. "A Dream Play" was written in 1901, and "The Ghost Sonata" in 1907. The paper shows how the structure of both plays is dreamlike and the characters experience the world as if in a dream. The subject matter of the plays, though, is life itself, with a strong religious and moral tone.

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"Much of the dialogue also makes the action of the play seem dreamlike, for though the dialogue could be taken as metaphorical, it has the tone of something surrealistic when the daughter says that the "castle keeps on growing up out of the earth" (Strindberg, "A Dream Play" 199). The action as well has a surrealistic quality, as when the daughter of Indra goes on her dream journey to the opera house, where a mystical door opens to show the four learned representatives of different faculties busily arguing over their disciplines and the great problems of human knowledge. This leads to the great fire that consumes the castle, followed by a wall of questioning human faces as the roof turns into a giant chrysanthemum. Such transformations are of the sort that occur in a dream, carrying symbolic meaning on a deep level."

Tags:Indra, Hummel

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This paper examines how in "Jane Eyre" and "Wide Sargasso Sea", both authors raise the issues of power relations and the reversal thereof. It looks at how, along with the notions of feminism they follow the subject of other discrimination and colonization and how race, class and gender are intertwined in the lives of both novels' characters.

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"Both authors assess the spiritual and emotional growth of a different heroine in the same time frame. The main character, Antoinette, in Wide Sargasso Sea does not resemble Jane Eyre, but both women match their determination for female independence. Jane Eyre is a young poor woman, whose social position is inferior. Her prospects are bleak as she belongs to a lower class, making it unlikely for her to prosper or gain wealth. Antoinette is a product of colonialism, and although wealthy, her position is to be destroyed at the hands of imperialism, male superiority and mastery. Both women show obstinacy and authority over their own experiences and destination. Jane is never intimidated by Rochester, and she is clearly equal to him in intellect."

Tags:antoinette, rochester

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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."

Tags:suicide, childhood, death

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"The purpose of this research is to compare the "dream" plays
and the "reality" plays of August Strindberg. The paper will be specifically concerned with "A Dream Play" and "The Ghost Sonata" ("dream" plays), and "The Father" and "Miss Julie" ("reality" plays).
The first important point to be developed in such research is that the dividing line between the two "types" of plays becomes less clear the more deeply one examines the plays themselves. Indeed the very application of the terms "dream" and "reality" must be questioned.

In writings on Strindberg and his dramatic work, the word "naturalistic" is as often used as "realistic" in describing such plays as "The Father" and "Miss Julie." And, in this regard, more critical energy is spent on separating such plays from the ... "

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Discusses different way power is depicted in three literary works. Their historical era. Homer's THE ODYSSEY, Jonathan Swift's GULLIVER'S TRAVELS & Machiavelli's THE PRINCE. Depiction of human beings as power brokers and pawns in power struggles. How political power operated. How political power should be taken, utilized and maintained by the ruler.

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"Power relations are featured in different ways in different literary works, and often how power is portrayed is dependent on the historical era from which the work emerges. Power is seen in stark terms in many works in which human beings act out power plays fueled by ambition, hatred, lust, and similar basic emotions. In ancient Greece, represented by The Odyssey, Homer shows human beings not only as power brokers in their own right but as pawns in power struggles among the gods. Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's Travels satirizes the operation of political power in his own era, while Machiavelli in The Prince suggests how political power should be taken, utilized, and maintained by the ruler.


Odysseus in The Iliad is presented as the shrewdest of the..."

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The paper discusses how the Swedish naturalist playwright August Strindberg's play "Miss Julie" is a kind of Cinderella story in reverse, or an inversion of typical fairytale roles, since it is the woman Julie who is of higher birth, while the man whom she 'sins' with is her father's valet. The paper focuses on this reversal of conventional gender norms and how it conveys Strindberg's misogynist idea that men, regardless their social class, should rule and women should serve.

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"Strindberg, in his "Preface" to the play says that he deliberately created a portrait of a world upside-down in terms of its class and gender relations, which is then made right again by Miss Julie's subjugation at the hands of the stronger, but lower-class Jean. Women like the "man-hating half-woman" Miss Julie, Strindberg writes, "fortunately are overcome eventually either by a hostile reality, or by the uncontrolled breaking loose of their repressed instincts, or else by their frustration in not being able to compete with the male sex" on a truly equal playing field (Templeton 268). Of course, the Cinderella story itself is also a kind of world-upside-down myth--the 'good' girl, the true heir of the father's first mother, is forced to be a maid, while the 'bad' stepsisters are elevated to legitimate status, and the mother dominates the father. This is made right by Cinderella's escape with the prince, which restores the mother and stepsisters to their rightful, lowly places. In Miss Julie, the world is upside-down because the superior sex of the male is made subordinate by class structures to the socially but not sexually superior female. Just as in Cinderella, courtship rectifies this situation, but in a negative and deadly, rather than in a positive and life-affirming fashion."

Tags:gender, norms, class, aristocracy, misogyny

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This paper assesses the nature of the relationship between China and the international community. It looks at what is expected of China in the coming years by the U.S.A. what China can expect from itself. It discusses whether China will eventually subjugate itself to international norms or whether they will challenge the existing international system, which is dominated by United States principles. It also examines the power the United States wields over China and how effective it is. Examples of Chinese challenges to U.S. power relations are shown as well as examples of U.S. attempts at controlling China's destiny.

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"'The People's Republic of China (PRC) is more integrated into, and more cooperative within, regional and global political and economic systems than ever in its history.' Despite this, there is considerable apprehension coming from the United States as to what the increase in economic, political and military power in China will mean. The question as to whether China is playing by the 'international rules' or, if it is not, whether it will in the medium term, is a continual headache for western politicians. China is now combined with Hong Kong and is significantly integrated with the economy of Taiwan. The economic success of recent years has meant that China has the production capabilities and trade options to become a major superpower."

Tags:republic, multilateralism, military