In the preface of Augustus Strindberg’s, ‘Miss Julie’, p.60, the account of Strindberg misogynistic attitude is an intense subject matter towards women that should be discussed further. It concerns claims that identify Strindberg for being a misogynist, the reform movements of education and voting rights never making an impact on women’s equality, justice and questions whether women will ever ‘catch up’ with men. Some might say the stance taken by Henrik Ibsen from the play ‘The Dolls House’ ten years before pushed the playwright of Miss Julie because of their different perspectives on the way women are represented. The meaning in this context of, ‘when will B [woman] catch up with A [man]? Answer: Never!’ is what raises my impression of…show more content… From the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the action of women campaigned for equal voting rights were the results of women justified right to vote in the United Kingdom in 1918 and across the United States in 1920. It shows a great improvement on behalf of women branching out from the stereotypical views of many people at the time of Strindberg’s preface as referred to, “the ‘new women’: independent, educated, (relatively) sexually liberated, oriented more towards a productive life in the public sphere than towards reproductive life in the home.” This essentially redefines women from the restrictive lifestyle of productivity at home to today, working in the outside world. Key figures of this liberation for women were named Flappers. They were young, uncontroversial women in the 1920s that had a casual mindset towards sex, jazz music, and cultural…show more content… In The Dolls House, the housewife; Nora forges her husband’s signature to take out a loan to support him, which ends with her walking out on him and the family. The message conveyed in this play was the realisations of how most women, during the late 19th century were treated. Women were only ‘doll’s’ of their husbands, they were dependent on the men and not of themselves.
Ibsen’s play spark intense controversy between Strindberg misogynistic stance as the message of the play ends badly for the men when the wife leaves the husband to find her own ‘independency’, which does not support the statement he made. In fact, it contradicts his statement because it shows the woman is not controlled or under the wing of the man, that the woman is free from the typical roles of a housewife and leaves the house, husband and children to do what she desires.
However, people would object to the way in which the woman, Nora was depicted in the play. Instead of leaving the family, people believe Nora would regret her decision and return back home. Strindberg wrote a collection of the short story (from the book, getting married) in reaction to
