Critical Lenses Review

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 Lens

• Marxist Lens

• Archetypal Lens

• Formalist Lens

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/ Feminist Lens

• Social/ Marxis Lens

• Psychoanalytic Lens

• Formalist Lens

In every family with step-parents, there is always a competition between the new spouse and the children, as shown in Snow White, where the evil-stepmother is jealous of Snow White’s beauty.

• Gender Lens

• Social/ Marxist Lens

• Psychoanalytic Lens

• Critical Race Lens

In order to distinguish between all of the dwarves, the author chose names according to their personalities and characteristics, making it easier for the reader to distinguish them.

• Psychoanalytic Lens

• Gender/ Feminist Lens

• Formalist Lens

• Archetypal Lens

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 Lens

• Formalist Lens

• Gender Lens

• Archetypal/ Mythological Lens

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

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
• Formalist Criticism
• New American Criticism