ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Go over the following questions: What is the relationship between the characters and their society? Does the story address societal issues, such as race, gender, and class? How do social forces shape the power relationships between groups or classes of people in the story? Who has the power, and who doesn’t? Why? How does the story reflect urban, rural, or suburban values? Does the story address issues of economic exploitation? What role does money play? How do economic conditions determine the direction of the characters’ lives? Do any of the characters correspond to types of government, such as a dictatorship, democracy, communism, socialism, fascism, etc.? What attitudes toward these political structures/systems are expressed in the work? What approach can be noted from the questions?