Introduction to Marxist Criticism
Students explore Marxist literary criticism to analyze how texts reflect and critique socio-economic class structures and power struggles.
Key Questions
- Analyze how social class and economic status influence characters' motivations and conflicts.
- Critique the representation of wealth, poverty, and labor in a literary work.
- Explain how a Marxist lens reveals underlying ideologies related to class in a text.
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