Applying Critical Lenses to Literary Texts

What this note covers

1. What Is a Critical Framework?
2. Feminist Criticism: Power, Gender, and the Silenced Voice
3. Postcolonial Criticism: Empire, Identity, and the Colonised Voice
4. Marxist Criticism: Class, Ideology, and Material Conditions
5. Psychoanalytic Criticism: The Unconscious, Desire, and the Self
6. Reader-Response Criticism: Meaning Made in Reading
7. Applying Multiple Frameworks: Synthesis in HSC Responses

7 sections · 14 key terms & formulas · 6 common mistakes