Post #9

So what was the purpose of Aunt Julie? To me, she is a very flat and static character because she does not change at all throughout the play. It's kind of ironic, though, that we look at Aunt Julie as being such a boring character and how we say that she's just a stereotypical "female" character of the time- motherly, and selfless, but in fact Aunt Julie was probably the only character in the play who actually cared about other people. I mean, Hedda cared about Hedda obviously, Tesman cared about his work, Brack was just creepy, and Lovborg and Thea were pretty much only devoted to their manuscript. So yes, Aunt Julie looks kind of pathetic for caring so much about what other people think (the hat...), but still. At least she has a soul. Okay, okay, the other characters have souls too (some of them) but I just think it's a little wrong of us to be so harsh on poor Aunt Julie when she's the only one who is trying to do any good in the world. Cut her some slack.