Plot and Subpolt of Miss Julie
Diana Caires Drama Coursework Mrs Lancaster Plot and Subplot These are the most significant moments of the play: Jean (30 year old) was gossiping about Miss Julie (25 years old) and the artist’s finished engagement to the cook, Kristen (35 years old) on Midsummer Eve Party complaining she is a wild personJean really thinks that Miss Julie is beautiful even though he is engaged to Kristen the cook, but also Jean thinks that Miss Julie is just like her motherMiss Julie enters to ask Kristen if she has finished the meal Diana’s poison while Jean suddenly becomes very polite and charming to Miss Julie. Kristin tells him to go.Miss Julie ask for Jean to dance but Jean hesitates tell Miss Julie that he already promise Kristen to dance but Miss Julie wanted to dance with Jean that she is the mistress of the house and wants to dance with its best dancerMiss Julie told Jean that rank does not matter this evening, and walks out to the party on his arm. Kristin tells him to goWhile Kristen cleans the table, Jean enters alone saying that Miss Julie is wild againKristin and Jean were flirting when Miss Julie enters.Kristin falls asleep Miss Julie invites Jean to sit. He refuses until Julie teasingly commands him.
Jean serves her a beer, and Julie invites him to have one too. While Miss Julie and Jean were flirting Jean insists that this flirtation must stop, since they could be discovered at any moment.Julie complimented the valet for his kindness and ask him to pick some lilacs with herJulie teases him, wondering if his imagination has perhaps gotten the better of him. Tells Jean about her dream declares that she is "climbing down." relates a dream in which she sits atop a pillar wanting to fall but lacking the courage to jumpWhile Jean tells about his dream that he ...
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Jean serves her a beer, and Julie invites him to have one too. While Miss Julie and Jean were flirting Jean insists that this flirtation must stop, since they could be discovered at any moment.Julie complimented the valet for his kindness and ask him to pick some lilacs with herJulie teases him, wondering if his imagination has perhaps gotten the better of him. Tells Jean about her dream declares that she is "climbing down." relates a dream in which she sits atop a pillar wanting to fall but lacking the courage to jumpWhile Jean tells about his dream that he lies under a tall tree, wanting to get to the top to rob a nest of its golden eggs. He knows if he can reach the first branch he could succeed, but never reaches it.Julie invites him out again but romantically, Jean suggests that they sleep on nine midsummer flowers so that their dreams come true.Jean gets a speck of dust in his eye, and Julie moves to remove the speck with her handkerchief. She feels his arms, Julie commands him to kiss her hand and thank him.Jean tried to kiss Miss Julie but she slaps himJulie asks Jean if he has ever been in love. He replies that once he got sick with love. After Jean reveals that he loved her.Jean recounts a childhood memory of Miss Julie. Miss Julie compliments Jean on his storytellingJean decides to go to bed guests were coming Jean suggests that they good to his room, swearing (at Julie's insistence) that he will behave in a gentleman fashion, but they have sex while the peasants entered the kitchen singing and dancingJulie enters alone, sees the kitchen, and powders her face. Jean follows in highly excited. Jean says that because of the crowd's rumours, it is impossible to stay at the house.Julie begs Jean to declare his love for her and invites him to call her by her first name and cares little for his plans. She only wants to be with him. He decides to ask Julie if she has money for his plan. She cannot help as she reveals that she is broke. After a brief pause, Jean announces that the plans are off. Suddenly it is clear that he wanted her for her money.Jean calls her a whore. And said that stole the story of the oat bin from some newspaper article. He says he told her these stories to win her over.Jean complimenting her beauty and refinement and was sorry that she could never love him. Julie is unmoved but cannot bear herself from him. Julie pauses: she wants to tell him her life before they become travelling companions and went back homeKristin enters, carrying his shift and tie. Kristin gasps at the mess; Jean blames it on Miss Julie. Kristin reminds Jean that he promised to join her at church this morning. Jean gets dressed.Kristin asks why he was up all night, and Jean confesses to sleeping with Miss Julie. Kristin is more disgusted than jealous, deciding that she cannot remain in the house any longer. Kristin expresses how that Miss Julie was been so proud about menKristin thinks it is time that Jean finds a better position, if they are to marry, a door keeping or caretaking job would provide a steady income and pensionThe two hear sounds upstairs and realize that the Count has come back. Kristin leavesDressed for travel, Miss Julie enters with a small birdcage. Jean remarks that she needs to wash her face Julie again begs Jean to join her, fearing the memories that will haunt her on her journey. Jean agrees. When Miss Julie moves to bring her canary, Jean insists that she leave it behind.As Jean urges Julie to go, she approaches the chopping block. She hears a carriage approaching. Suddenly she exclaims that she wants to see Jean's head on a chopping blockShe pledges to stay, to wait for her father to discover the robbery, and then to confess everything to the sheriff. She says the Count will die. And Jean's family line will end in the orphanage, gutter, and jail. Kristin enters, dressed for church and carrying a hymn-book. Miss Julie throws herself into her arms, to help against Jean. Kristin refuses. Julie has an idea: the three of them can flee together and open that hotel on Lake Como. Kristin exitJean thinks he sees the bell move. He plugs his ears, but still hears to bell. The bell rings twice, and Jean jumps. Then gave Miss Julie the axe he used for the bird and let her go to the barn and kill herself A subplot is sometimes referred as kind of a ‘B story’ or a secondary plot; sometimes a subplot connects to the main plot in drama/theatre plays. The subplot to Miss Julie is that the relationship to Jean and Kristin how they are engaged and futhermore how everything changes when Jean told Kristin that he slept with Miss Julie, Kristin was disgusted rather than jealous. This play reminds me of Romeo and Juliet even though the two play both written in different times. It looks like Miss Julie and Jean are both ‘star crossed lovers’ as a beautiful young girl sucide herself because of Romeo death, Miss Julie sucide herself but not Jean’s death but the fact because it might be of her father or Jean. Romeo and Juliet had problems because of their family’s rage to each other similar to Miss Julie and Jean problems since they had sex they are scared if they get caught and trying to make plans to run away but its all ruin by the fact Miss Julie was expressing her feelings to her servant Kristin. Kristin found out that Jean and Miss Julie were going to run away. - -
