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This 5 page report discusses who is the stronger character in Strindberg’s play
“The Stronger.” “The Stronger” is a three-character one-act in which the central character never appears, and one of the two
female rivals for his love says nothing. The entire action of the play takes place over only a 15-minute period. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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mysticism. In 1849, Strindberg was born in Stockholm, Sweden, the third child in a family of 12 children. Critics have come to think of him as a
master of both naturalism and symbolism, and a forerunner of the expressionism of the post-war theater. The majority of his work revolved around the alienation of modern humanity, desperate
and alone in a abandoned universe. His one-act play about two women, "Den Stakaste" or "The Stronger" (1889; trans. 1912), serves as an excellent example of the pain and
almost surrealistic quality of that sense of having been forsaken. The Premise of "The Stronger" "The Stronger" is a three-character one-act in which the central character never appears, and one
of the two female rivals for his love says nothing. The entire action of the play takes place over only a 15-minute period. As the two women meet in a
cafe, Madame X is initially concerned but condescending about the fact that her friend, Mademoiselle Y, is alone. As Mme. X slowly discovers the truth about the relationship between this
woman and her husband (though Mme. Y never speaks), her condescension transforms into anger, then into the realization that perhaps she is the "stronger" after all. For she has won
him in the end, yet if that is the case, why has she been the one who has had to experience such a range of emotional upheaval? It seems that
part of Strindbergs appeal is the fact that his drama flies in the face of normalcy and creates an irrational world of people in the grip of tumultuous love affairs,
psychic breakdowns, romantic literary idealism, and radical social change. And yet, the scenarios he presents are also undeniably realistic. Perhaps such internal uproar exists within even the most
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