August Strindberg : the spirit of revolt : studies and impressions . t the type of womanwho surpasses Lady Julie in anti-social attri-butes. Laura is something of a female tigress,the mother whose claws are ready to tear allbut the cub ; Lady Julie, with her hysteriaand her caprices is still the womanly Bertha who is united to her comrade Axel in a marriage of equality is worse thanthey. She is plain, mannish, ambitious; amental parasite who suppresses her woman-hood and simulates her husbands rival of man, the unsexed, simian-brainedshrew, Strindbergs bete noire. Comrade
August Strindberg : the spirit of revolt : studies and impressions . t the type of womanwho surpasses Lady Julie in anti-social attri-butes. Laura is something of a female tigress,the mother whose claws are ready to tear allbut the cub ; Lady Julie, with her hysteriaand her caprices is still the womanly Bertha who is united to her comrade Axel in a marriage of equality is worse thanthey. She is plain, mannish, ambitious; amental parasite who suppresses her woman-hood and simulates her husbands rival of man, the unsexed, simian-brainedshrew, Strindbergs bete noire. Comrades is a four-act comedy of Alberg and his wife are Swedish paintersin Paris. They have each painted a picturewhich has been submitted to the Salon. InAct I we find Axel at work in the studio. Heis a good fellow, honest, painstaking, generous. Friends call and discover his embarrassingposition as a married comrade. There is thedoctor, mature in experience and philosophicalin outlook, who when Axel asks him if hedoes not believe in woman answers : No, I. THE ARTIST 185 dont. But I love her. There is the sensible,matter-of-fact Lieutenant Starck, who willstand no nonsense from women, and whosehappy, normal wife knows that womans realhappiness is found in subjection unto herhusband. They are shocked to hear ofBerthas tastes and habits. Bertha comeshome. She has kept her nude male modelwaiting, and her poor husband has had topay five francs in consequence of her un-punctuality. This is a small part of the sacri-fices he has made for her artistic career. Inthe scenes that follow we see Bertha insistingon keeping the household accounts, thoughher head cannot grapple with the simplestproblems of addition and subtraction. Shehas made false entries, and deliberately de-ceives Axel as to the manner in which thefunds of the comradeship are expended. Shecoquettes with Willmer, a young writer, andreceives presents from him. Intent uponsecuring the acceptance of her picture, shem
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