schools of literary criticism + gatsby

1. “marxists“, “feminists“ its marxism + feminist theory

2. psychoanalytic concepts, freud, psychological analysis of a text, madonna whore complex, oedipus complex, electra complex

psychoanalytic concepts

• oedipus complex - boy is born. wants attention from mum (sexual - sexual act of breastfeeding), attraction to breasts from source of sustenance. duality of experience, competing with father as both want attention from mum. also shows wife is subservient of husband. sexual competition - example of how attention and power works in family dynamics.

• electra complex - little girl wants dads attention

• castration complex - when infantile male becomes aware of differences between male and female genitalia he assumes that the female's penis has been removed and becomes anxious that his penis will be cut off by his rival, the father figure, as punishment for desiring the mother figure

• penis envy - female children experience profound distress upon realizing they do not have a penis. about male power.

• death drive - death instinct/thanatos leads person to seek activities that eventually cause its demise. theory of death drive was developed by Freud, later in life to explain why people engage in aggressive + harmful behaviors

• freudian slip - verbal error that may make while speaking or writing. It's commonly known as a slip of the tongue. when unintentionally blurt out something different from what you originally intended to say

no diff between writing gatsby ao1 and ao5, don’t overcomplicate dont need to make up crazy ao5. just think about smth in diff way or diff detail.

analysis of moment in gg

a … critic might suggest …..

a marxist critic might suggest that the valley of ashes is representative of the confinements of the economic system and the inescapable nature of the class system with the line “ash grey men“ showing how the men blend into their dead surroundings with no chance of social mobility and existing beyond the bleak environment + economy.