AO5

Feminist

Butler - gender performativity: gender is a social construction of repeated behaviours that conform to social norms

Millet - male characters as denigrating + repressive + exploitative in relations with women

Psychoanalytic - Madonna-Whore complex

Freud - women in literature either submissive housewives or disobedient prostitutes

Freud - psychodynamic approach

Oedipus complex: Biff + Happy idolise Linda as a wife, Biff hates Willy for cheating

Inadequate superego: failure to identify with same sex parent results in instable identities/naivety

Marxist

Literature reflects + reinforces class ideologies and structures

Marx - social consciousness determined by existence