1 / 16

August Strindberg

August Strindberg. The Father. Themes of Strindberg ’ s Works. Corruption of the male's vitality and social role because of the emancipated woman search for some sense of salvation and reconciliation with the world. August Strindberg. Style of Strindberg ’ s works.

mmunoz
Download Presentation

August Strindberg

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. August Strindberg The Father

  2. Themes of Strindberg’s Works • Corruption of the male's vitality and social role because of the emancipated woman • search for some sense of salvation and reconciliation with the world August Strindberg

  3. Style of Strindberg’s works Generally Strindberg's style can be divided into two periods, the pre-Inferno naturalism and historical realism and the post-Inferno symbolism and expressionism. Strindberg in 1902

  4. The early plays unmasked the base drives of man and showed human nature in its rawest and often most vile form. Strindberg + Helium, a comedic multimedia interpretation of Strindberg's Inferno

  5. Most of the action in these plays takes place through dialogue and the settings are usually small-scale domestic situations depicted realistically. Image of The Father

  6. The post-Inferno plays are also focused on exploring concepts but they are more imaginative and poetic. The action takes place as much in the actions of the characters and the sets, which are often heavily symbolic, as the dialogue.

  7. The Father The Father portrays the tragedy of a man and a woman struggling for the possession of their child. The father, a cavalry captain, is a man of ideas. His wife is narrow and unscrupulous in her methods when her antagonism is wakened.

  8. Other members of the family are the wife's mother, a Spiritualist, and the Captain's old nurse, Margret, ignorant and superstitious. The father feels that the child would be poisoned in such an atmosphere. A drawing by August Strindberg called Ruskprick 2

  9. Women in Father In keeping with Lacan's perception of women and their role in human development, Strindberg's women are defined in terms of their biology. This drawing is from a letter to the Swedish painter Carl Larsson. On the drawing Strindberg has written: "There was a damned lot of fucking among the hay-cocks"

  10. The captain's statement "when women get old, they've stopped being women” suggests clearly that women cease to be women when they are no longer sexually attractive or capable of bearing children. Strindberg’s newspaper layout

  11. Strindberg liked to spend the summer on this island in the Stockholm Archipelago."My flowerbasket in the sea" he called it. Virtually all the women in the play are characterized as irrational. Laura's "irrationality" is clear, but the nurse too is a rabid Baptist, the mother-in-law wants Bertha to be a spritist,

  12. the maids try to convert her to the Salvation Army, and the grandmother makes her do "automatic writing" at night. Women are, then, consistently associated with forces of anti-reason. August Strindberg, Alpine Landscape I ,1894.

  13. Thus, Adolf wants to get rid of his mother-in-law and his old nurse, a desire that we can again see in light of the threat that femininity poses to the masculine order once it can no longer serve through sexuality or child bearing. August Strindberg, Night of Jealousy, 1893.

  14. As the play draws to a close, the captain spews forth a litany naming all the women who have been his enemies. In this respect, Strindberg goes beyond even Lacan's misogyny. August Strindberg, The City,1903.

  15. While the psychologist posits the necessity of women both as mother (primarily before the Symbolic stage) and as Other to man's subject, Strindberg sees all women as failing men, as fundamentally defective. August Strindberg, The Avenue, 1905.

  16. Related Sources and Links about The Father • Blackwell, Marilyn Johns. “Questioning the Father: From Darwin to Zola, Ibsen, Strindberg, and Hardy.” Journal of English and Germanic Philology 100:4 (2001): 607-609. • Blackwell, Marilyn Johns. “Strindberg's early dramas and Lacan's ‘Law of the Father’.” Scandinavian Studies 71:3 (Fall 1999), 311-324. • Goldman, Emma. “The Father :An Analysis of the Play by August Strindberg.” The Social Significance of the Modern Drama. Boston: Richard G. Badger, 1914. 45-51. • Marker, Frederick J. and Christopher Innes, ed. Modernism in European Drama: Ibsen, Strindberg, Pirandello, Beckett: Essays from Modern Drama. Toronto: U of Toronto P,1998. • Gilman, Richard. The Making of Modern Drama :A Study of Buchner, Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, Pirandello, Brecht, Handke. New Haven, CT :Yale U P,1999. • Robinson, Michael. Studies in Strindberg. Norwich :Norvik P,1998. • Strindberg + Helium http://strindbergandhelium.com/ • Little Blue Light– August Strindberg http://www.littlebluelight.com/lblphp/intro.php?ikey=26 • Tate Modern/Past Exhibitions/ August Strindberg: Painter, Photographer, Writer http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/strindberg/room8.shtm

More Related