Why does the Captain want to send his daughter away in The Father?

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August Strindberg Swedish playwright August Strindberg.

In The Father, the Captain wants to send his daughter away to school to remove her from his wife Laura's influence. This decision is a central point of contention in their marriage, which has become a bitter power struggle between the two.1

The conflict escalates when Laura, determined to keep their daughter at home, attempts to drive the Captain to madness by casting doubt on his paternity of the child.1