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    This document provides instructions for composing a Marxist analysis of the short stories "Transients in Arcadia" or "A Pair of Silk Stockings." Students are asked to answer questions about ideological values, power structures, social narratives, the protagonist's beliefs, recognition of oppression, responses to oppression, and social objectification in the chosen story. They then must write a thesis statement analyzing the story from a Marxist perspective and support it with evidence over several paragraphs.

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    This document provides instructions for composing a Marxist analysis of the short stories "Transients in Arcadia" or "A Pair of Silk Stockings." Students are asked to answer questions about ideological values, power structures, social narratives, the protagonist's beliefs, recognition of oppression, responses to oppression, and social objectification in the chosen story. They then must write a thesis statement analyzing the story from a Marxist perspective and support it with evidence over several paragraphs.

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    This document provides instructions for composing a Marxist analysis of the short stories "Transients in Arcadia" or "A Pair of Silk Stockings." Students are asked to answer questions about ideological values, power structures, social narratives, the protagonist's beliefs, recognition of oppression, responses to oppression, and social objectification in the chosen story. They then must write a thesis statement analyzing the story from a Marxist perspective and support it with evidence over several paragraphs.

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    Marxist Analysis

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    Danika Barker
    This document provides instructions for composing a Marxist analysis of the short stories "Transients in Arcadia" or "A Pair of Silk Stockings." Students are asked to answer questions about ideological values, power structures, social narratives, the protagonist's beliefs, recognition of oppression, responses to oppression, and social objectification in the chosen story. They then must write a thesis statement analyzing the story from a Marxist perspective and support it with evidence over several paragraphs.

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    Marxist Analysis of “Transients in Arcadia” or “A Pair of Silk Stockings”

    Your task is to compose a Marxist analysis of either “Transients in Arcadia” or “A Pair of


    Silk Stockings.” If you prefer to use one of the other stories we’ve read, you can, but it
    will be more challenging.

    You will begin by answering the following questions for the story you’ve chosen:

    1)What or whose (not necessarily individuals here, think class) ideological values
    structure the text? How are these evident?
    2)Who has the power (and what sorts) in the text? How does this power operate
    and change as the text progresses?
    3)What “master” or dominant social narratives (eg/ The American Dream; or in
    Victorian times, the idea that role of women is to be a comfort to men; or that it is
    unpatriotic to criticize your government, etc.) are perpetuated or critiqued and
    disrupted in the text?
    4)To what degree does the protagonist or other characters believe in and live by
    the prevailing social order?
    5)At what point(s) do the characters recognize the oppressiveness of the
    prevailing social order?
    6)How do they respond? What affects their options for changing things?
    7)How is social objectification evident and how does it operate in the text?

    Then you need to create a thesis statement about how analyzing the text from a Marxist
    perspective provides the reader with specific insight:

    Eg/ When analyzing “Transients in Arcadia” from a Marxist perspective, we see that the
    story suggests …/ promotes the idea that…/ the main characters are…

    Support your thesis with evidence from the text. In a series of well developed
    paragraphs.

    Due Date:_______________________________

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