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Countess Julie 59
looked up to is not worth while, and it pains me
to see you fallen lower than your cook, as it pains
me to see autumn blossoms whipped to pieces by
the cold rain and transformed into dirt!
"
It is this force that helps to transform the blos
som into dirt that August Strindberg emphasizes
in
"
The Father." For the child born against
the will of its parents must also be without will,
and too weak to bear the stress and storm of life.
In
"
Countess Julie
"
this idea recurs with even
more tragic effect. Julie, too, had been brought
into the world against her mother s wishes. In
deed, so much did her mother dread the thought
of a child that she
"
was always ill, she often
had cramps and acted queerly, often hiding in the
orchard or the attic." Added to this horror was
the conflict, the relentless war of traditions be
tween Julie s aristocratic father and her mother
descended from the people. This was the
heritage of the innocent victim, Julie an au
tumn blossom blown into fragments by lack of
stability, lack of love and lack of harmony. In
other words, while Julie is broken and weakened
by her inheritance and environment, Jean is hard
ened by his.
When Jean kills the bird which Julie wants to
rescue from the ruins of her life, it is not so much
out of real cruelty, as it is because the character
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