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Comrades 63
you? Of what use am I in your house? Oh, I blush
when I think about it!
Axel. What talk! Isn t a man to support his wife?
Bertha. I don t want it. And you, Axel, you must
help me. I m not your equal when it s like that, but I
could be if you would humble yourself once, just once!
Don t think that you are alone in going to one of the
jury to say a good word for another. If it were for
yourself, it would be another matter, but for me
Forgive me ! Now I beg of you as nicely as I know how.
Lift me from my humiliating position to your side, and
I ll be so grateful I shall never trouble you again with
reminding you of my position. Never, Axel!
Yet though Bertha gracefully accepts everything
Axel does for her, with as little compunction as
the ordinary wife, she does not give as much in re
turn as the latter. On the contrary, she exploits
Axel in a thousand ways, squanders his hard-
earned money, and lives the life of the typical
wifely parasite.
August Strindberg could not help attacking with
much bitterness such a farce and outrage parading
in the disguise of radicalism. For Bertha is not
an exceptional, isolated case. To-day, as when
Strindberg satirized the all-too-feminine, the ma
jority of so-called emancipated women are willing
to accept, like Bertha, everything from the man,
and yet feel highly indignant if he asks in return
the simple comforts of married life. The ordi-
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