Word: sorrowfully
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...course of the play, however, both predictably learn that degradation is not so easily overcome. Arciniagas infests Jean with the great passion of Strindberg's typical heroic, mythical, self-willed man. Yet along with this determination, Arciniagas recognizes Jean's uncanny brutality and sorrow as he yearns for a sky that he can't reach, a yearning that ultimately leads to a climactic confrontation with his mistress. Only through violence does Jean transcend Miss Julie. Only by degrading her into little more than a whore (through graphic directorial choices leading to a violent, on-stage rape scene that must have...