anton chekhov
Chekhov is very different from most of the other playwrights throughout history, in that, he did not always aspire to be a writer. It is something he stumbled upon out of necessity. He began writing humorous anecdotes for a local paper as a mean to support his family while putting himself through ....
Miss Julie by August Strindberg
First published in 1888, August Strindberg's Miss Julie shocked early reviewers with its frank portrayal of sexuality. Although it was privately produced in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1889, the play was banned throughout much of Europe and was not produced in Sweden, Strindberg's native country, unti....
Strindberg's Miss Julie and Beckett's Waiting for Godot
The motivations and behavior of key characters in Strindberg's Miss Julie and Beckett's Waiting for Godot will be analyzed according to Eric Berne's method of transactional analysis. Eric Berne deals with the psychology behind our transactions. Transactional analysis determines which ego state is im....
Women In Society
Literature, in addition to its many purposes, has also served as a form of expressing an authors ideas and point of views regarding any arbitrary subject. Both writers, Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg, conveyed their own opinions concerning women in the following works of literature. Ibs....