FIN200H1 Lecture Notes - August Strindberg, Pro-Feminism, Compulsory Education
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He also sets out his ideas of women"s rights. In the rst part of the collection, he is positive towards women. In the preface of married, he attacks ibsen and a doll"s house. He was an extremely jealous person, bordering on pathological. A madman"s defense: work where he talks about his relationship from the beginning to the end. A lot of his work is semi-autobiographical. Came from a lower-class family and was part of society very early. He became wealthy, and never felt at-home in the middle-class society. Most of his work is based on the faults of the middle-class society. In the beginning he is almost continuing the work of bremer. Very pro-feminism, but after the publication of married (arsa) he had to go to court, and the police tried to destroy all of the copies of the book that had been published. Had uncommon insight into the hypocrisy of his society"s gender expectations, sexual behaviors, and morality.
