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Countess Julie 51
of
"
divorce between man and wife, so that lovers
may be born." He felt that until man and woman
cease to have
"
remorseful consciences
"
because
of the most elemental expression of the joy of
life, they cannot realize the purity and beauty of
sex, nor appreciate its ecstasy, as the source of
full understanding and creative harmony between
male and female. Till then man and woman must
remain in conflict, and the child pay the penalty.
August Strindberg, as one of the numberless
innocent victims of this terrible conflict, cries out
bitterly against it, with the artistic genius and
strength that compel attention to the significance
of his message.
COUNTESS JULIE
IN his masterly preface to this play, August
Strindberg writes :
"
The fact that my tragedy
makes a sad impression on many is the fault of
the many. When we become strong, as were the
first French revolutionaries, it will make an ex
clusively pleasant and cheerful impression to see
the royal parks cleared of rotting, superannuated
trees which have too long stood in the way of
others with equal right to vegetate their full life
time; it will make a good impression in the same
sense as does the sight of the death of an incura
ble."
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