Comparing bad animals and miss julie
Basilio Alberto Ayala Romero
1495060
The Outsider In Literature
Harold Hoefle
Second Essay Comparing Bad Animals and Miss Julie In the play ''Miss Julie'' by August Strindberg and Joel Yanofsky's memoir ''Bad Animals'' there are great differences and similarities respecting to power, money and family. In Miss Julie the main characters are Julie, the daughter of the Count and a shockingly feminist mother and Jean, the manor's thirty year old valet who has big desires to be rich. In Bad Animals the main characters are Joel, Cynthia and Jonah, Joel and Cynthia are the parents of Jonah, a boy who has autisim. These stories mainly focus on how family can affect a persons life, in Miss Julie Julie's parents were not good parents at all, raised by a feminist mother who abhorred men and a father who is not always there for her she is constantly looking for attention. By the other hand Jonah's parents could not be better, they have always been looking for ways to help his son to have a better life, It can be said that Jonah is a happy child.
People are capable of do all kind of things just for money.. In Miss Julie and Bad Animals money is an important subject, for Jean it is necessary to follow his dream of have an hotel and for Cynthia and Joel to keep paying for the treatments of Jonah. This can be seen in Miss Julie when Jean says ''True enough! That's why I'm looking for a backer, someone who'll advance me the money'' (88). Jean was fooling Julie to lend him some money, he didn't really liked her, he was just using her. By the other hand in Bad Animals this can be seen when Joel says ''Her clients were usually lawyers or doctors, professionals of some kind, or executvies, businessmen and women. Therapy like this was costly, after all, and they tended to be the only ones who could afford it. (We obviously couldn't, but we were lucky in this regard: Cynthia's parents volunteered to pay for everything related to Jonah's therapy and
1495060
The Outsider In Literature
Harold Hoefle
Second Essay Comparing Bad Animals and Miss Julie In the play ''Miss Julie'' by August Strindberg and Joel Yanofsky's memoir ''Bad Animals'' there are great differences and similarities respecting to power, money and family. In Miss Julie the main characters are Julie, the daughter of the Count and a shockingly feminist mother and Jean, the manor's thirty year old valet who has big desires to be rich. In Bad Animals the main characters are Joel, Cynthia and Jonah, Joel and Cynthia are the parents of Jonah, a boy who has autisim. These stories mainly focus on how family can affect a persons life, in Miss Julie Julie's parents were not good parents at all, raised by a feminist mother who abhorred men and a father who is not always there for her she is constantly looking for attention. By the other hand Jonah's parents could not be better, they have always been looking for ways to help his son to have a better life, It can be said that Jonah is a happy child.
People are capable of do all kind of things just for money.. In Miss Julie and Bad Animals money is an important subject, for Jean it is necessary to follow his dream of have an hotel and for Cynthia and Joel to keep paying for the treatments of Jonah. This can be seen in Miss Julie when Jean says ''True enough! That's why I'm looking for a backer, someone who'll advance me the money'' (88). Jean was fooling Julie to lend him some money, he didn't really liked her, he was just using her. By the other hand in Bad Animals this can be seen when Joel says ''Her clients were usually lawyers or doctors, professionals of some kind, or executvies, businessmen and women. Therapy like this was costly, after all, and they tended to be the only ones who could afford it. (We obviously couldn't, but we were lucky in this regard: Cynthia's parents volunteered to pay for everything related to Jonah's therapy and