critical lenses

Question 1

psychoanalytical lense

Answer 1

analyses literature through the lens of a psychoanalytical motivations. It includes characters, authors and can consider the roles of the ‘unconscious’ , ‘repression’.

Question 2

feminist lense

Answer 2

examines how literature challenges gender roles and expectations and how it reinforces or undermines the oppression of women

Question 3

marxist lense

Answer 3

relationship between literature and social and economic conditions in which it was created , stemming from the concept of class struggle, the intersection of power and culture, the author’s values and relevant historical context

Question 4

new historicism

Answer 4

a literary critical approach that focuses on the cultural, historical, and political context in which a text was produced
emphasises that literature is the product of a cultural moment