This lens...
Examines complications found within a capitalist system, including social structures, wealth disparities, and class hierarchies.
Marxist Critical Literary Lens
These key terms match with this lens ( name the lens):
Alienation
Money
Power
Politics
Socioeconomic Class
Capitalism → economic system where a country’s profits are controlled by the upper class, not the working class
Bourgeoisie →upper class that controls the capital (money)
Proletariat → working class that produces goods which keep the upper class wealthy.
Marxist Lens
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What is the significance of race in the text?
Critical Race Lens
DAILY DOUBLE:
BIG
This lens...
Examines how identities are constructed and performed rather than essential and "Natural." This lens explores issues of sexuality, power, and marginalized populations in literature and culture.
Gender Studies Literary Lens
These key terms match with this lens ( name the lens):
Binary
Code switching
Gender
Non conformity
Gender expression
Social construct
Power
Erasure
Silence
Normal
Gender Studies Lens
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What time period was the work written, and what time period is the literary work taking place in? Is there a connection?
New Historical Lens
The Aristocats
This lens ...
Examines how "the ways in which literature (and other cultural productions) reinforce or undermine the economic, political, social, and psychological oppression of women" (Tyson 83).
Feminist Lens
These key terms match with this lens ( name the lens):
Sexism
Femininity
Power
Patriarchy
Gender Roles
Gender discriminations
Masculine
Patriarchy → an ideology in which men are superior to women and have the right to RULE women.
Feminist Lens
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How is the relationship between men and women portrayed?
What does the work reveal about the operations (economically, politically, socially, or psychologically) of patriarchy?
Feminist Lens
DAILY DOUBLE:
Name the 2 colleges that Mrs. Breland attended.
Yale and Georgetown.
The Wiz
This lens...
Examines a work in its historical context (i.e. Understanding the time period, author's background, and how the events of the time affect the author and possibly the characters of the text). But also challenges the way history has been recorded and presented.
New Historical Lens
These key terms match with this lens ( name the lens):
Cultural Context
Author’s background
History / Time Period
Marginalized / Power
Representation
Textuality
Voices vs. Facts
New Historical Lens
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What are the politics (ideological agendas) of specific gay, lesbian, or queer works, and how are those politics revealed in...the work's thematic content or portrayals of its characters?
Gender Studies Lens
Maya Angelou
Writer & Poet
Tangled
This lens...
Based on the theories of Sigmund Freud in which one's behaviors are influenced by their unconscious thoughts and fears. Many times this theory is applied to the author and what the text is telling us about their psyche; however, it can be applied to characters as well.
Psychoanalytical Lens
These key terms match with this lens ( name the lens):
Control
Dreams
Conscious
Subconscious
id → "...the location of the drives”
ego→ and home of the defenses listed above
superego →the area of the unconscious that houses Judgment
Psychoanalytic Lens
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What characters have money? What characters are living in poverty? What are the differences?
Marxist Critical Lens
James Baldwin
Writer
The Goonies