LITERATURE QUESTIONS
LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM
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Question
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Determine class for major or minor characters
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Analyze how class affects the character’s Personality, Actions, Beliefs, Hopes, Fears
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Analyze Disparities between the economic classes
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All the answers are correct
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Marxist critic simply is a careful reader or viewer who keeps in mind issues of power and money, and any of the following kinds of questions: What role does class play in the work; what is the author’s analysis of class relations? How do characters overcome oppression?
Detailed explanation-2: -Marxist criticism thus emphasizes class, socioeconomic status, power relations among various segments of society, and the representation of those segments. Marxist literary criticism is valuable because it enables readers to see the role that class plays in the plot of a text.
Detailed explanation-3: -Marxist criticism pays special attention to the division of class, class struggle, oppression, and political background of the story. In other words, this criticism focuses more on the social and political elements of a work than its aesthetic (artistic and visual) value.
Detailed explanation-4: - As we all know, the main goal of Marxism is to achieve a classless society throughout the world. As great as this sounds to most people, there are many Capitalist ideologies which would have to be eliminated before this could ever happen.