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Marxist Criticism Theory In The Use Of Force

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According to Marxist Criticism Theory it’s a theory in which it is listed into different principles and practices. These principles allows readers to analyze actions done within the reading and it’s characters personality. An outside source “Introduction to Literature” by Michael Delahoyde, Delahoyde states “Marxists generally view literature "not as works created in accordance with timeless artistic criteria, but as 'products' of the economic and ideological determinants specific to that era" (Abrams 149). Literature reflects an author's own class or analysis of class relations, however piercing or shallow that analysis may be” (Delahoyde). In other words, Marxists view class struggle, wealth defines the characters and view literature as products of the economic. I will be writing and approaching the Marxist Criticism Theory and it’s ideologies about the characters belief, it’s economical influence and comparing the characters and how their wealth defines them. I decided the short story “ The Use of Force” by William Carlos Williams was the appropriate story to approach. In the …show more content…

They wanted answers and even though they tried to find out what Mathilda had she refused therefor her parents believed calling a doctor would help them out. As mentioned earlier they would be considered lower class and they paid three dollars to a doctor in order to examine their daughter. The doctor (Olson) believed he was capable to find out what Mathilda could possibly have because she wouldn't let herself he became curious and anxious to know what she could be hiding. Mathilda believed hiding away what she had was the best for her and her parents because she didn't want to scare or hurt her parents with the news that she did have diphtheria. As a Marxist point of view I could understand the characters belief in helping one another and their own

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