Word: nietszchean
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Dates: during 1963-1963
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...this short tragedy is not an unqualified statement of the intense misogyny of Strindberg's youth: the duality of his evaluation of women, which led him alternatively from violent, Nietszchean disgust of females to a submissive craving for maternal warmth and comfort, receives a bit of the attention it will enjoy more fully in later plays. The Strindberg hatred for the feminist opportunist pervades The Link, but an appreciation of the woman as mother is not totally absent...
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