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 The Father - August Strindberg
Newest Review: ... after ascertaining that she had no talent. Bertha loves and honours her father, but at the same time she is controlled by her ... more  ... mother. However, Adolf’s dream is completely shattered by Laura’s insinuation that Bertha might not be his daughter.
The problem which cannot be avoided is that motherhood brings some selfishness along with it; after all no woman can forget her suffering during pregnancy and giving birth. This tends to aggravate when the mother takes control of her children’s lives and wishes them to achieve what she couldn’t do herself, and this ends, of course with a fatherhood crisis as the parent feels he is alienated f...more |
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The Father - August Strindberg: Hercules' Spindle and Omphale's Club (1290 words)
by - written on 19/11/07 (Very useful, 172 readings)
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The Father (1887) A play in three acts By August Strindberg (1849 – 1912) For me, the well written books are the ones that leave memories; I can never forget the scene in which the pig was slaughtered in JUDE THE OBSCURE, I will always imagine how Catherine and Heathcliff hugged and cried till their tears mixed in WUTHERING HEIGHTS, and in HAMLET the list is simply too long. When you fail to recall a single scene from a book, it is mostly because you didn’t like it much. The title of my review is one of the things that nestled in my mind since I read the magnificent play. If Hercules spins the wool and Omphale swings the club, who is going ... Read the complete review
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