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A Dream Play Analysis August Strindberg. The Play (Survey of Dramatic Literature) print Print; document PDF. A Dream Play Quotes (showing 1-8 of 8) “Autumn is my spring!” . Like “Everything can happen, everything is possible and probable. Swedish funeral. Only August seemed to stand apart from the rest. In fact, a sort of warfare seems to have been rag- . Thus. a character naturally timid and reserved had those traits de- . With this suspiekmsncss of his environ- . That occurrence made the boy's. During the years that followed. This mood lusted until he. Upsala. Worse even he could not buy the wood. From that time dates the. Another recur- . ring theme is that of unjust punishment, and it has also come. He tried time and again to write verse, only to. Instead he read everything not. Of that coterie, Strindberg. On. the sudden death of the king, when his little stipend ceased. All this life he has. The. King was the opportunist, Olof the idealist, and Gert the . It took. him several years to recover from the shock of disappoint- . Irf his own gifts. But those years of seeming inactivity were. Royal Library. which gave him a living and free access to all the books he. At first he sought forgetfulness in the most exotic. Chinese language. The honours of the. French Institute. Already as a student at Upsala. Danish individualistic philosopher Kierkegaard, the. English determinist Buckle, and the German pessimist Kduard. Hartmann. Among novelists, Hugo and Dickens were. They together with the brothers de Goncoiirt. Zola, heljxjd principally to shape his artistic form. She was. already married. In the end she obtained a divorce and. Strindberg's wife. To begin with they were very. Strind- . bcrg began once more to write but now in a manner such. The novel. already mentioned was his first popular success. It drew. bitter attacks from the conservative elements, but the flavour. INTRODUCTION. of real life pervading it conquered all opposition. To this. day that first work of social criticism has not been forgiven. Swedish literature. One of the results was a dar- . He wrote also a series of short stories on histori- . This series. was named . To these must be added his first fairy. But this play. has from the start been a great favourite with the public, com- . His attitude toward women had already become. Criminal proceedings were. The charge was that it spoke. INTRODUCTION 9. offensively of rites held sacred by the established religion of. Sweden. Bverybody knew that this was a mere pretext, and. Urged by friends. Strindlx. Tg hastened home and succeeded in assuming the. The jury freed. him, and the youth of the country proclaimed him their. As in his. childhood, when he found himself disbelieved though telling. And. the leaders of the feminist movement, then particularly strong. Sweden, turned against him with a bitterness not sur- . Ibsen had to face from directly opposite. A Doll's House. In 1. Collectively. he named those stories . Its. eighteen stories constituted an unmistakable protest against. The. efforts of Ibsen and Bjornson to abolish the so- called ** double. Eight here it should be pointed out, however, that. Strindberg always, and especially in his later years, has de- . Norwegians lying in the motives on which he based. Until. then Strindberg had shown strong evidence of the Romantic. From now on, and until the ending of the. At the same time he becomes more and more. And after a while the. Nietzsche came to complete what his personal ex- . His attitude toward woman, as finally. That. work has been hailed as one of his greatest, if not the great- . At the same. time it presents that duel of the sexes which to him had taken. The ingen- . iousncss of its plot may well \w called infernal. By throwing. doubt on her husband's rights as father of the child held to be. Then came the play of his. And it is the stronger vitality, here repre- . The last of these novels, . But led by his incorruptible logic. One of these. was not published until years later. Three others were. The first vol- . ume in the series is especially noteworthy because of its search- . But all the. novels in this series are of high value because of the sharp light. Strindberg's power as an. A place by itself, though belonging to. It is. the book that has exposed him to more serious criticism than. He wrote it in French and consented to its pub- . Against his vain protests, unauthorised trans- . German and Swedish. The. circumstances surrounding that break were extremely painful. Strindberg. Both the facts of the legal procedure and the. INTRODUCTION 1. 3. The Link. Their mar- . Strindberg had been heading ever since the prose- . Chemistry was the. In. the course of a prolonged stay at Paris, where he shunned. He began to. have psychic experiences of a character that to him appeared. At the same time he was led by. Balzac to the discovery of Swedenborg. By. quick degrees, though not without much mental suffering, he. Erom being a materialistic sceptic, he be- . U INTRODUCTION. came a believing mystic, to whom this world seemed a mew. His return to health began in 1. In 1. 80. 7 lie resumed his work of artistic. First of all a flood of j)crsonal. This he ac- . complished by his two autobiographical novels, . In 1. 80. 8 lie produced the first two parts of. The last part of the trilogy was not. Once for all the. He was. still a realist in so far as faithfulness to life was concerned. His view of life is *,till pessi- . Everything that. nation, humilih, kindness become the main virtues of human. And the greatest tragedy of that existence lie sees. Thus, in the closing line of his last. As a rule they were built about a monarch. Five stand out. alx> ve the rest in artistic value: ''Gustavus Vasa,' 1 . As they stand to- day. I feel sure they must sooner or later win the same attention. English- speaking countries that they have already. Germany. The literary tendency. They speak as you or. I might do. And yet there is in them and about them &. With them must be classed the trio of fairy. In the first of these, the charming. In the last. of them, . As the. play in question forms part of this volume, I shall not. Numerous critics have. Strindberg's greatest play, and there is much in. Its construction is. Its characters are almost shockingly real. And. yet the play as a whole is saturated with that sense of larger. It was called the Intimate. Theatre. There Strindberg made some highly interesting. The effects thus obtained proved un- . For this stage Strindberg wrote five. But in spirit they were marked. Add to. these another fairy play, . But at the same time Strindberg's pen was no less active in. There are two more autobiographical volumes. And notwithstanding. Strindberg never has approached any. A third marriage. He is now sixty- three years old. In the sheltered nook which he has established. Stockholm, he busies himself with philological. Two of these his. Flowers. and music are what he loves next to his children and his. From that corner where he hears nothing but echoes. And. in the meantime his fame is steadily spreading and growing. In the English- . They are from an article on u Slaugh- . Strindberg. It may also be. This he has achieved. Never was a man. more keen on catching the life breath of his own time, and. To transplant. the work of such a man may be difficult, but it involves no. We, on this side of the. Strindberg and receive im- . Swedish. reader at Stockholm. And I believe that it will be easier to. English here than out of what bears that name. Finally, I wish to mention that the prologue now attached. It was written last year as an afterthought. A CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF. AUGUST STRINDBERG'S. But one consciousness reigns above them ail- . There is neither judg- . And as the. dream is mostly painful, rarely pleasant, a note of melan- . Sleep, the liberator, plays often a dismal. The trilogy ! The air is here so dose. And breathing difficult. From Cukra, morning star. THE DREAM PLAY. You have withdrawn yourself to enter soon. The vapoury circle of the earth. For mark. The Seventh House you take. It's Libra called. There stands the day- star in the balanced hour. When Fall gives equal weight to night and day. Then occurred. Some strange mishap; the orbit was disturbed. Rebellion led to crime that called for check. THE DAUGHTER. A race most hard to please. And thankless, are the dwellers on the earth. THE DAUGHTER. They are white, pink, crimson, sulphureous, vio- . The side- scenes. The castle is growing higher and higher. Do you see how much it has grown since. Ought it not to be blooming soon, as we. Don't you see the flower up there? Do you know who lives in that castle ? I have known it, but cannot remember. I believe a prisoner is kept there and. And what is he to pay for it? One does not bargain about one's duty. On one of the chairs sits an officer. He is tilt- . ing the chair backward, and beating the table with his sabre. Oh, Agnes dear, let me keep the sabre. No, you break the table. You are imprisoned in your own rooms. I have come to set you free. I have been waiting for you, but I was not. The castle is strongly built; it has seven. Do you want it, or do you not? Frankly speaking, I cannot tellfor in. I shall suffer pain. Every joy that life brings has. It is hard to. stay where I am, but if I buy the sweets of freedom, then I shall. Agnes, I'll rather endure it as. I can only see you. What do you sec in me? Beauty, which is the harmony of the uni- . There are lines of your body which are nowhere. You are. a child of heaven. THK DAUGHTER. Why must I then keep horses, tend stable. So that you may long to get away from. I urn longing, but it is so hard to find one's. But it is a duty to seek freedom in the. Life has never recognised any. You feel yourself wronged by life? Yes, it has been unjust. Now voices arc heard from behind a partition, which a moment. TII E OFFICER and Tn E DAUGHTER. In front of. her a tallow candle is burning, and erery little while she. The table is piled with. To the left stands a brown- coloured wardrobe.
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