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3.29 AVERAGE
3.29 AVERAGE
Without being overly familiar with the background of the playwright, [a:August Strindberg|6815|August Strindberg|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/authors/1336003196p2/6815.jpg], and judging this play on its own merits or deficiencies, I can say this: it is, as a play, quite well put together, and the acts certainly flow into each other easily. The concept is, as others have noted, very similar to [b:A Doll's House|37793|A Doll's House|Henrik Ibsen|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1391285342s/37793.jpg|10535173], though there are also aspects of [b:King Lear|12938|King Lear|William Shakespeare|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1331563731s/12938.jpg|2342136] present, in the titular father's concern over whose views his daughter should inherit. In tone, the work felt reasonably bitter and frustrated, assuming the author was taking the position of the male lead character, but this, I understand, relates to events taking place in [a:August Strindberg|6815|August Strindberg|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/authors/1336003196p2/6815.jpg]'s own life that formed the basis for the play.
It’s like if Piers Morgan was suddenly literate and wrote a play starring himself
Ασύγκριτο κείμενο. Έχω μείνει άναυδη από την τρομερά πολύπλοκη και τρομερά ποιητική πάλη μεταξύ των φύλων, την σημασία της πατρότητας και της μητρότητας, της συντροφικότητας, τον ετεροπροσδιορισμό μέσω της οικογένειας. Ακόμα αδυνατώ να συλλέξω τις σκέψεις μου και είμαι βέβαιη ότι τα πιο βαθειά νοήματα, απαιτούν συζήτηση για να πάψουν να είναι αδρανή μέσα στο κεφάλι μου. Σοκ σοκ σοκ σοκ!!!!
dark
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
قاسية…
يُولد البشر ثم يجبرون بعضهم البعض على المعاناة ثم يموتون..
المرأة تصل دومًا إلى ما تريد بالدهاء او بالبكاء أو بأي طريقة لكنها تصل !
رواية تحمل مرارة حياة أوغست ستريدنبرج الخاصة من مولده وطلاقه…
شاهدت فيلم العذاب امرأة ودفعني لقراءة المسرحية
نهاية المسرحية واقعية
وأليمة لأنها واقعية
يُولد البشر ثم يجبرون بعضهم البعض على المعاناة ثم يموتون..
المرأة تصل دومًا إلى ما تريد بالدهاء او بالبكاء أو بأي طريقة لكنها تصل !
رواية تحمل مرارة حياة أوغست ستريدنبرج الخاصة من مولده وطلاقه…
شاهدت فيلم العذاب امرأة ودفعني لقراءة المسرحية
نهاية المسرحية واقعية
وأليمة لأنها واقعية
challenging
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I mean... wow. First, the good stuff: As usual for most Strindberg plays, it has good dialogue and detailed characterizations. Now the bad stuff: everything else. The play is a thin veneered hateful array of paranoid thoughts about women from someone who sees any woman who even tries to show the barest amount of autonomy as "out to destroy men". It's so sexist that even the random racist remark in the middle of the play goes completely unmentioned because the rest of the play is very very VERY sexist!
Strindberg has written some good plays despite his many hang-ups with women and relationships, and trying to act incredibly in line with patriarchal views. "The Father" is not one of the good ones. Sadly though, it feels like it's Strindberg at his most bare, and that's... saddening and sobering.
Strindberg has written some good plays despite his many hang-ups with women and relationships, and trying to act incredibly in line with patriarchal views. "The Father" is not one of the good ones. Sadly though, it feels like it's Strindberg at his most bare, and that's... saddening and sobering.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Infidelity, Sexism
Moderate: Death, Suicide
Minor: Racism
one part male midlife crisis, one part misogynistic bs
"a man has no children; only women have children. therefore the future belongs to them, while we die childless"
gaslight, gatekeep, girlboss
but also good lord, what a ride
gaslight, gatekeep, girlboss
but also good lord, what a ride