Play Analysis: Miss Julie

Kristin and Jean are of the same class and logically would work together as a couple. Jean is a dreamer who wants to own his own Hotel some day and doesn't want to be a servant for the rest of his life. But, the main conflict is that Jean and Julie fall in love and want to run away together.
             The conflict between Julie and Jean thickens when Kristin discovers the two have been up all night long talking about their plans, and that they want to run away. At the end of the play, Jean goes to serve Miss Julie's father, the Count has summoned his valet. Miss Julie exits with a razor in her hand. They never run away together, Jean is going to continue to serve as he has his whole life. Miss Julie is going to get her escape. Julie ultimately has a triumph at the end. She has felt trapped in her house and in her social class, and Jean has put so many ideas into her head. She fell in love with him, and asked him to tell her what to do at the end, instead of her telling him. Jean submissively continues to serve as a valet and looses his love and his dreams of building a Hotel with her by the end of the play. This makes it a tragedy. I think Julie and Jean should have run away together, it never could have worked, but when I was reading it I was rooting for them the whole time. The degree of loss for Jean was great. His dreams were all he had, and he gave them to Miss Julie.
             The characters in the play are very consistent. I think that Jean and Miss Julie are complex characters. They both have detailed background stories and spend all night talking in the kitchen about how they are in love and want to be together. I think Kristin is a simple character representing the hardworking women who's men sneak behind their back to sack up with another woman and illogically lost in a fantasy world. I feel sorry fir Kristin for being stabbed in the back by Jean, and Miss Julie. They are all equally motivated.