Miss Julie is a one-act tragedy. Miss Julie is a naturalistic play, we can tell this by the explicit references to menstruation, blasphemy, lust and other bodily functions. Miss Julie was a modern play for one reason that Julie and Jean do have an affair together.

One can see by how crafty the playwright was and it included some psychology and Darwin's concepts. The psychology used in this play was when the playwright did explicitly theorize about expressionism and naturalism. Some expressionist theories are present throughout Miss Julie. Key examples include continual allusions to mystical forces, the use of symbolical and ritualized dances, and construction of an absent, shadowy, and yet precipitating center of authority in the figure of the Count. There was also examples of psychology in Miss Julie when Julie and Jean have gender role reversal problem. Julie perceives herself to take the masculine roles and to protect everyone in the house because she is the one with the money. While Jean, the valet, falls to take the less effective way out of any situation. Normally, the woman would take the glass of wine and the man would take a glass of beer, but in this play Julie chooses to take the glass of beer and Jean chooses to take the glass of wine. Jean is a commoner and Julie is the one who has all the power. Julie has dreams of being a commoner and what her life would be like. Jean has also had dreams of what it would be like if he did have a lot of money to play around with and to have the stunning power to boss servants around.

I have enjoyed this playwright. I enjoy reading how characters that should be enjoying their life and everything that they have, but in reality they are the ones who are continually wishing they had a different life.