ABSTRACT
Miss Julie is the daughter of a Count. Jean is her father's valet who is engaged to Kristin the cook. Jean is confident, ambitious and intelligent and dreams of moving up in the world. In his eyes, Miss Julie is the incarnation of all he aspires to. Miss Julie is listless, bored and frustrated and she amuses herself by dallying with the servants on her father's estate while he is away. During the Midsummer celebrations Miss Julie visits the kitchen. She and Jean engage in seductive, provocative chat, which, like a game of cat and mouse, leads to a violent off-stage sexual encounter. Jean wants to use her to rise above his class. They rashly plan to run away together to Switzerland to start a new life. Strindberg's Miss Julie is a long one-act tragedy which charts the rise and fall of a one-night relationship between the aristocratic Miss Julie and her father's ambitious valet Jean.
