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2 Strindberg
What a wealth of revolutionary thought,
were we to realize that those who will clear soci
ety of the rotting, superannuated trees that have
so long been standing in the way of others entitled
to an equal share in life, must be as strong as the
great revolutionists of the past!
Indeed, Strindberg is no trimmer, no cheap re
former, no patchworker; therefore his inability
to remain fixed, or to content himself with ac
cepted truths. Therefore also, his great versatil
ity, his deep grasp of the subtlest phases of life.
Was he not forever the seeker, the restless spirit
roaming the earth, ever in the death-throes of the
Old, to give birth to the New? How, then, could
he be other than relentless and grim and brutally
frank.
"
Countess Julie,"
a one-act tragedy, is no doubt
a brutally frank portrayal of the most intimate
thoughts of man and of the age-long antagonism
between classes. Brutally frank, because August
Strindberg strips both of their glitter, their sham
and pretense, that we may see that
"
at bottom
there s not so much difference between people and
people."
Who in modern dramatic art is there to teach
us that lesson with the insight of an August Strind
berg? He who had been tossed about all his life
between the decadent traditions of his aristocratic
father and the grim, sordid reality of the class
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