Julie: “Come now, Jean and dance a schottische with me.” (3-4)
Julie: “Make believe you are he—and I you. You could act so well a little while ago when you knelt at my feet.” (33)
These two quotes agree with Strindberg’s evaluation. Julie is a noble but miserable lady who has double stress from her parents and family in her growth. She is not against marriage from her deep heart. She behaves to hate male just because of the impact of her mother’s education. Actually, she has a physiological desire and fantasy about love, and can not get rid of the weak nature of women’s belief in love.She also regards love as an available tool and she can change her life with it. Although Julie attempts to break the slavery relationship of men to women, she is subjected to women’s common property which can be easily slaved by her emotion. Therefore, when facing the sweet words from Jean, she holds fantasy about love again and agrees with whatever Jean says. However, it is also difficult for her to escape her identity as a nobility, and she is also confined with family honor and reputation. So she does not dare to escape home. But finally, she loses herself and is totally controlled by Jean. In this play, Miss Julie is not only an image who seeks for incarnation of women’s liberation, but also she is a contradictory character.
As for half-woman, Julie’s mother believes in the equality of the sexes and hates men. Julie inherits her mother’s hatred of men. Julie has authority partly because she is her father’s daughter. She thinks she is strong and can be regarded as a male that way. But she is a woman in reality.