Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 66, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1914 — HELD UP LIFE MIRROR WRONG [ARTICLE]

HELD UP LIFE MIRROR WRONG

Strindberg Saw Only the Worst In Human Nature, and Wrote According to His Convictions. Strindbery had an uncanny power'd psychological analysis, says a priter in the JLondon Nation. He exhibits himself to the world naked and raving, but the exhibition causes him no shame. He also dissects his foes with convincing malice. So it is in the plays He displays the average vulgar coquette, the worst product of the older social conventions which taught her that her sex is her fortune, with an insight that is not wholly unjust in its remorseless and ungrateful brutality. But there is in him this quality of intellectual honesty, that in revealing the woman who is a coquette he is also compelled to exhibit the man who is" a. sensualist The latter revelation is apparently altogether uncon scious. He sees and despises the triviality and tinsel of the animal at traction in the woman; he reveals, but does not appear to despise, the brutal ity and vulgarity of the animal passion in the man. He regards the man ae the creative mind, yet shrinks from placing on him the responsibility for what he has written on the “slate” ol the woman’s mind. His was a genius which worked its hardest and best under the impulse of hatred. He has the insight of malice, the vision oi scorn. There’s no show for the small boy who can’t get into the circus.