Miss Julie Lesson Plan

In naturalistic plays like Miss Julie, the environment and personal background of the characters can have a strong influence on their behaviors. Given the play’s setting (a 19th-century estate in Sweden, on Midsummer Eve), what do you expect to happen in the play?

The purpose of this question is to get to think about the action of the play in scientific terms, as the author himself might have. Environment and heredity are frequently identified as the two the great variables of naturalistic theatre: accordingly, students should be able to craft hypotheses about what will happen in Miss Julie by trying to understand how each of these act on the the play's characters. The...