Day+6--Who+has+the+Power?

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 * =__Journal Topic__=

 What methods are used to maintain order and power in Feed? What politics, if any, are presented thus far in the text?


 * =__Sharing of Poems__=

Today, we all (including myself) will be sharing the poems that we created. Please stand and share your poems with your classmates. After, pass them into me.
 * =__Who has the Power?__=

The Marxist lens is a tool that literary readers use to analyze a text. Marxism uses the idea of the class struggle as a way of decoding the text. An ideology is a view of the world; a prevailing set of beliefs. Marxist criticism pays a lot of attention to the social structures that allocate power to different groups in the society. Marxist theory uses a sociological approach and looking at literature as a product of history and the material world that the texts exist in. Marxism focuses on the clash between those that have the power and those that are oppressed. It is by using these techniques and lens that a reader is able to analyze the text.

The following questions and statements will frame our discussion and understanding of the Marxist lens in critical theory. What are some ideologies that you have experienced? What is the prevailing ideology that is present in our world today? Is there more than one? If so, do they fight with each other? How?

We will apply the Marxist lens to both //Feed // and //V for Vendetta //. Complete the first sheet for both texts. Complete the file titled, Marx_lens_for_texts.docx., in class in your groups of three. After you complete this assignment, we will discuss as a class. First, fill out this worksheet in regards to //Feed//. After watching //V for Vendetta//, we will revisit this worksheet to fill out with this text in mind.



Next, for homework tonight, complete the following worksheet. Again, the first time in regards to Feed and we will revisit this worksheet after we have watched V for Vendetta.



