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A 4 page essay that addresses the societal factors that shape the familial situations in August Strindberg's Miss Julie, George Ryga's The Ecstasy of Rita Joe, and Sharon Pollock's Doc. The final portion of the paper discusses the role of Mr. Homer in Ryga's play. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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listed below. Citation styles constantly change, and these examples may not contain the most recent updates. Family as Shaped by Society in
3 Plays Research Compiled By - February, 2012 properly! 1. The societal factors
that shape the familial situations in August Strindbergs Miss Julie, George Rygas The Ecstasy of Rita Joe, and Sharon Pollocks Doc are all quite different, as these plays are not
only separated by time, but also by culture. Societal forces pertaining to nineteenth century European aristocracy influenced Miss Julie in Strindbergs play, while Rita Joe, Rygas protagonist, was subjected to
societal prejudice evident in Canadian culture in the late 1960s and Catherine/Katies family in Pollocks play was influenced by societal pressures pertaining to white Canadian culture in the early 1980s.
Although members of Miss Julies family are never on stage in Strindbergs play, he specifically identifies Julie in his preface as a victim, who was caught in a power struggle
that occurred between her mother and father (Templeton 468). Strindberg indicts Julies mother for adhering to the new-fangled notions of womens equality that emerged in the nineteenth century, as he
saw this as detrimental to society in general, as well as a factor that was specifically detrimental to Julies family. Due to her mothers dominance in her parents marriage, Julie
indicates that she was basically raised as a boy, as she was dressed in boys clothes and learned "everything a boy learned, to prove to the whole world that a
woman was as good as a man" (Strindberg 30). This factor, and the failure of her father to overrule her mother, Julie is pictured as pathologically confused in regards to
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