The first animal imagery Strindberg uses is the dog. Jean uses the dog imagery to describe to Kristen how Miss Julie made her ex-fiance act before the break-up. " Why, she was making him jump over her riding whip the way you teach a dog to jump." A dog is mans best friend only because a dog is an extremely loyal animal. Having Jean compare what Miss Julies did to her ex-fiance with what some one would do to a dog shows Miss Julies drive to be the dominant one or the master. Strindberg again uses the imagery of a dog when he has Miss Julie say, "dog who wears my collar" to Jean. Miss Julie feels that her social status is so much superior to that of Jean that their relationship could be compared to that of a master and his dog. The dog imagery in the play is also used to demonstrate the difference in social classes. In the play Miss Julie's dog, Diana, is impregnated by the lodge-keepers pug. Kristen demonstrates Miss Julie's disgust when she says; "She almost had poor Diana shot for running after the lodg

Like the imagery of the dog Strindberg uses the imagery of a horse. Jean says that, "A dog may lie on the Countess's sofa, a horse be stroked on the nose by a young lady, but a servant." In that quote Jean suggests that a servant is unable to socialize with the upper class, while dogs and horses are. Jean also compares himself to a horse when his master rigs his bell. " I've only to hear his bell upstairs and I start like a shying horse." The simile of comparing Jean to a shying horse also has an ironic overtone, because a horse is a very powerful animal and why should a powerful animal shy to a weaker animal. That shows a good comparison to Jean physical stature and his outlook on the social structure of society that is around him. A horse also symbolizes work and that is Jean main plot in life.

The animal imagery in the Miss Julie demonstrates how society looks down upon the people they feel are inferior to them. It also symbolizes the never-ending struggle for one to succeed in society and become a person of a higher status.

The last animal imagery used in the play is that of a hawk. Jean explains Miss Julie what the world looks like from the lower class. "Do you know how the world looks from below? You don't. Like hawks and falcons, whose backs one rarely sees bec

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