Critical Lenses

In the fairytale Snow White, a prince is needed in order to wake up Snow White by giving her a “true love’s kiss.” This is demonstrating that women need, and have to rely on men to survive, when in reality women have every capability of surviving on their own.

• Gender Criticism

• Marxist Criticism

• Archetypal Criticism

• Historical Criticism

Living amongst royalty does not always mean that one is happy and content with their life; for example, in the novel, Snow White, the princess chooses to leave the Kingdom and to live in the woods with the working class dwarves rather than be a part of the oppressive ruling class.

• Gender Criticism

• Marxist Criticism

• Historical Criticism

• Archetypal

In the movie “Beauty and the Beast," the women who follow Gaston around act as a stereotype on how women are dependent on men and metaphorically follow them through life.

• Marxist Criticism

• Historical Criticism

• Gender Criticism

• Archetypal Criticism

The Beast, a wealthy prince, is able to steal an innocent, young poor girl and drag her away to his castle, never to return to her working class family, just because he is lonely and wants company.

• Gender Criticism
• Marxist Criticism
• Archetypal Criticism
• Historical Criticism

Throughout the Lord of the Rings trilogy the fellowship doesn’t contain a single strong female character, and while there are some female side characters none of them really come to the forefront of importance.

• Gender Criticism

• Marxist Criticism

• Historical Criticism

• Archetypal Criticism

What is one of the questions that the Marxist Lens asks?

• Who is Karl Marx?

• What social class has the power?

• Who has the weapons?

• Where is Russia?

Using the Marxist Lens, who seems to have most social power in The Odyssey?

• Male gods

• Female gods

• Nymphs

• Odysseus

The stereotypical characters seen in works of literature, movies, television, etc. are important from a...

• Marxist Perspective

• Archetypal Perspective

• Historical Perspective

• Gender Perspective

From a Historical Perspective, does the author's personal history matter?

• Yes

• No

To Kill a Mockingbird offers a view of American culture during the Great Depression and is a statement on how everyone during this time period was poor and oppressed. Whose perspective is this MOST likely from?

• Marxist

• Historical

• Archetypal

• Gender