User:Boredom Ramsay07/Marxist literary criticism

Examining The Marxist Criteria (Lead)
The viewpoint of Marxists toward literary works is that they are not works created according to a perpetual artistic standard, but as 'consequences' of economic and ideological factors that are specific to that time period" . Critiquing literary work in the perspective of a Marxist involves asking these questions: Ultimately, the core foundation of Marxist critique is established on these questions since Marx once said that the writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it''.
 * What is the role of class in the said literary work?
 * How do the protagonists/characters fight against oppression?
 * Does the work advocate for Marxist values (whether implicitly or explicitly) or does the work oppose them?
 * How is oppression discussed by the work; are impeding issues in society brushed aside or are they condemned elsewhere?
 * Are there any proposed idealistic answers to the issues faced in the literary work?

Application Of Criteria (body)
Critiquing Cat Pictures Please based on the previously mentioned criteria, one could point out that the literary work implies that the issue of materialism and greed has consumed society (impeding issues). That problem is embodied within the character of Bethany who ignores using the financial help offered to her by the AI protagonist to improve her financial wellbeing, rather she brushes aside that and uses the funds provided to her to feed into her shopping habit (consumed by materialistic tendencies and greed). The AI protagonist in the story could be viewed as a Marxist revolutionary fighting against the capitalist system, by trying to help people like Bethany to face and overcome the problem of greed and materialistic tendencies that was brought upon by that system.

"Karl Marx's sociological explanation of social conflict is one of the most powerful explanations, he has put forward that the notion of a class struggle between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie, is inevitable within a capitalist system . The brewing social conflict amongst classes is well represented within Lu Xun's An Incident, where Xun describes his  ill tempered  experience within the capital  Peking  (modern day Beijing) during the winter of 1917; he begins by talking about how an old woman who is dressed in  ragged clothing  got caught in the shaft due to the strong winds  fluttering  her  unbuttoned and tattered jacket  . Xun describes how he felt  disgusted  and in disbelief that the old woman who was laying on the ground was helped by the rickshaw man; he believed that the old woman was  acting injured  to gain sympathy and help from the rickshaw man. Towards the end of the incident, in an attempt to quench his feelings of shame and guilt, he gives the policeman a  handful of coppers  to be given to the rickshaw man as a form of  reward  for his Samaritan behavior. Xun's attitude towards the old woman and the rickshaw man is representative of the classist bourgeois view towards the proletariat who are the  old woman and the rickshaw man  in this case; an apathetic and selfish attitude towards people in distress.