(1) Marxism is about social, economic, political ideas, and about changing and understanding the world. ... Women define themselves while in the process they also free themselves. ... Linda does not define her self in the play because she was depended by her husband. ... Marxism helps me understand the play better because the main idea is about Willy's economic failing in his life. While Marxism blames Willy's death on society, it fails to examine how Willy is responsible for his predicament. ...

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Literary theories are some ideas which try to define what literature is and how it needs to be studied. ... Marxist Criticism Marxism is a way of seeing the world around us through the economic terms. ... Marxism is concerned with economy, social class and the implications and complications of the capitalist system: "Marxism attempts to reveal the ways in which our socioeconomic system is the ultimate source of our experience" (Tyson 277). The English literary critic and cultural theorist Terry Eagleton defines Marxist criticism this way: "Marxist criticism is not merely a 'sociology of l...

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In order to understand him, there are two keys "realism and Marxism. As a socially and historically confined cultural concept, realism offers a window view on the world while Marxism springs from communism ideals of equality between all people and the non-existence of social stratification that proves to be a major difficulty in this play. ... Firstly, there is the notion of employment which defines the rule that a male must have a job and the females are also workers supporting the family. Working class men are defined by their occupation and respected according to their degree of milit...

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