Miss JulieIn Miss Julie, August Strindberg wrote about the naturalistic view of human behavior. It symbolizes behavior through animal imagery. The animal imagery used by Strindberg helps him illustrate his naturalistic vision. The first animal imagery used by Strindberg is the dog. Jean uses dog imagery to describe to Kristen how Miss Julie made her ex-fiance act before the breakup. “Well, she was making him jump over her riding crop like you teach a dog to jump.” A dog is man's best friend only because he is an extremely loyal animal. Asking Jean to compare what Miss Julies did to her ex-fiance with what someone would do to a dog shows Miss Julie's desire to be the dominant or master. Strindberg uses the imagery of a dog again when he has Miss Julie tell Jean "the dog that wears my collar". Miss Julie believes that her social status is so much higher than that of Jean that their relationship could be compared to that of a master and his dog. The imagery of the dog in the play is also used to demonstrate the difference between social classes. In the play, Miss Julie's dog, Diana, is impregnated by the lodge keeper's pug. Kristen demonstrates Miss Julie's disgust when she says, "She almost got poor Diana shot for running after the lodge keeper's pug." The sexual liaison between the dogs also represents the sexual liaison between Jean and Miss Julie and how the two despise each other. Jean despises Miss Julie because she is surprisingly easy to get. While Miss Julie washes...