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the century his realistic depiction of the battle of the sexes paired with the symbolic nature of stream of consciousness served to redefine the genre. In the plays Bill there
were a few notes given to the audience, speaking of Strindbergs hopes for the play and why he had felt the need to construct the play in the first place.
Given his revelations in this forward, one can easily see how audiences might construe or misconstrue certain actions or discourse as they occur in the first section/Act of the play.
A Dream Play was unique for its day and age because it did something that no other play had done before. This play was entirely built around a dream.
Many plays had depicted dreams or nightmares, but none utilized the whole of the plotline as the dream. In doing this, then, Strindberg was able to dissolve traditional boundaries of
space and time. Knowing that this was a dream, a dream of discontentment, the audience is able to further suspend disbelief because the playwright has warned them ahead of time
that the play is a dream, and as dreams are want to do, may not always follow perfect logic or sense. His main character is Indras daughter who is
the child of a god. She has been sent by her father to live among the mortal people. Following his wishes she meets and marries a poor civil defense attorney.
She watches as he embraces first one good cause, then another in an attempt to right the wrongs of the world. She seems to realize what he cannot: it
is an impossible task. Tiring of watching his fruitless endeavors she leaves the mortal life and returns to the gods in the sky. Strindberg states in the forward that
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