Name That Lens
A character's unconscious motivations and hidden emotions.
What is the psychoanalytical lens?
A character who exists beyond the accepted social group.
What is an outsider?
Romanticism and folklore
What is Germany?
Goethe
Who wrote The Erl-King?
Cinderella gets a fancy dress and suddenly society treats her differently. Name the lens.
What is Marxist lens?
Class, wealth, labor, resources, social hierarchy.
What is the Marxist lens?
A public identity that hides another identity.
What is persona/false self?
Cultural revival and mythology/folklore
What is Ireland?
Voltaire
Who wrote Candide?
Mei's red panda represents both something her family fears and something that is part of who she is. Name the concept.
What is cultural identity / resistance / hybridity?
Gender expectations and power between genders.
What is the gender lens?
A rejected, feared, or denied part of the self.
What is the shadow?
Shinto, Buddhism, folklore, modernization.
What is Japan?
Hans Christian Andersen
Who wrote The Little Mermaid?
A character pretends to be confident while secretly feeling ashamed. Name the archetype.
What is Persona / Hidden Self?
Culture, power, identity, Othering, assimilation.
What is the postcolonial lens?
A character who undergoes a major change in identity/status.
What is transformation?
Confucianism, Daoism, Buddhism, folklore.
What is China?
Henrik Ibsen
Who wrote A Doll's House?
Disney changes Andersen's stories for a modern audience. Name the analysis question.
Why did the adaptation make those changes, and what do they reveal about changing cultural values?
Historical period, cultural memory, nationalism, social context.
What is the historical lens?
What is the hidden self?
Confucian social expectations and modernization/cultural identity
What is Korea?
W. B. Yeats
Who wrote "The Stolen Child"?
"The story was written during a period when people were trying to reclaim and preserve Irish cultural identity." Name the text.
What is The Stolen Child / Irish folklore?