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Today in class we broke into groups and discussed the book as a whole. We also took a little time to read outside reading books. Your homework is to take notes--and create statements, when indicated--on the following:

Feminist Criticism
There exist cultural and economic disabilities in a “patriarchal” society that prevent women from realizing their potential
Women’s cultural identification is as a negative object, or “other”
The concept of gender is a cultural construct
Examine the patterns of thought, behavior, values, enfranchisement, and power in relation between the sexes
Lear Example: All of the problems in the play exist because women couldn’t have power to begin with!

Using this theory, please write down 3 statements about Little Red Riding Hood.

Marxist Criticism
Based on economic/cultural theories of Marx and Engels
The evolving history of humanity is dependent on its changing mode of economic organization
Explain literature by revealing economic, class, and ideological determinants of the way an author writes
Examines the relation of the text to the social reality of the time and place
This theory focuses on power and money in works of literature: who has the power? Who has the money?
Lear Example: Kent and the fool are not friends with Lear because Lear has the power to banish them.

Using this theory, please write down 3 statements about Little Red Riding Hood.


**DON'T FORGET VOCAB(SEE PREVIOUS POST) DUE NEXT WEDNESDAY. ALSO, DON'T FORGET TO BLOG ON YOUR OUTSIDE READING BOOK BLOG.