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Questions Marxist Critics Ask:
What do Marxist critics do?
Look for symbols and examples that create/reveal:
1. How do social classes
interact?
2. Do any characters climb
the social economic ladder?
3. Are the ruling classes
happy? Are the lower miserable? vice versa.
4. Does capitalism have a
conscience concerning its citizens who are helpless, hopeless, powerless?
7. Are any of the characters
suffocated by their class rules, codes, or costs?
8. How do "uppers" flaunt
their wealth or power?
1. Individual versus
exploitative system theme
2. Oppressive culture
theme
3. Individual as
dehumanization theme
EXPLOITED
DEHUMANIZED
Pentad
Outline
OPPRESSED
Act: What happened? What is the action?
Agent: Who is involved in the action?
Agency: How do the agents act?
Scene: Where is the action taking place?
Purpose: Why do the agents act? What do they want?
- What is Marxist analysis?
- What do Marxist critics do?
- What questions do Marxist critics ask?
- Burkean Pentad
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