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MARXIST CRITICISM

EAPP GROUP 3
WHAT IS MARXISM?
• Marxist focuses on power struggles of the characters.
This concerns class differences, economic as well as the
implications and complications of the capitalist system.
Moreover, it is interested in answering the overarching
question, whom does it the work benefit? The elite? The
middle class?
• Marxist critics are also interested in how the lower or
working classes are oppressed-in everyday life in
literature.
KEY CONCEPTS
• Class Struggles
- Literature reflects the conflict between different social
classes and their interests.

a) Proletariat
- Workers who do not own businesses.
b) Bourgeoisie
- Business owners who exploit workers for profit.
KEY CONCEPTS
• Ideology
- refers to cultural works reinforce or challenge
dominant ideologies, masking or revealing power relations.

• Economic base and superstructure


- Literary works are influenced by the economic
conditions and social relations of their time.
EXAMPLES
• Analysis of Dickens’ “Oliver Twist”
- Exposes the harsh conditions of the working class and
critiques capitalist exploitation.

• Reading of Shakespeare’s “Henry V”


- Reveals the ideological manipulation of power and
nationalism.

• Critique of Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice”


- Examines the reinforcement of bourgeois values and
patriarchal norms.

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