Select any exhibit and analyze it with 300+ words. Use the "Critical Lenses 101" flexbook. Look in the EXACT way the "Critical Lenses 101" flexbook tells you to as a critic. Ask the EXACT questions the "Critical Lenses 101" flexbook tells you to ask. Have the "Critical Lenses 101" flexbook with you as you study your exhibit and as you write this blog task. You must use at least four vocabulary words from the flexbook to earn maximum credit. Remember: grade = your effort to improve your intellect.
“EXHIBIT” = novel, play, song, job, sculpture, film, poem, concert, painting, myth, sketch, poster, artwork, photograph, t-shirt, television show, biography, board game, military situation, college visit, speech, advertisement, event, place/building (school, office), game, brochure, practice, rehearsal, ritual, haircut/style, website, routine, suit coat, celebrity...JERSEY SHORE is much more interesting when viewed under the lenses! This is a picture of four ids, is it not?
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Most people just listen to songs for the beat and rhymes. I was no exception until about a year ago when I started to analyze the lyrics while listening. The song “Words I Never Said” by Lupe Fiasco is more than just a song. It is supposed to open our eyes to problems in our society and with the government. He expresses his belief on the war on terror in the first couple lines. He expresses how it is krap that we even do this and he says, “ How much money does it really take to make a full clip.” And this spoke to me because we have spent so much on this war. It is understandable that we are concerned but we have sky rocketed our debt with this war. He then goes on to talk about poor budget cuts. The Government is completely burned with his statements that the schools were garbage in the first place and our childs futute were the first things to be cut. He then goes on to burn the news with his statements about how they always talk about who’s dating who and all their other blabber mouth comments that are “supposedly” true.
Drugs are brought into the next verse about the ghetto is full of kush and people “complaining about the liquor store but what you drinking liquor for?” Pills and how we take them when the pain is felt, washing them down with soda which is killing off our brain cells. His final verse is what society as a whole should worry about though. He talks about how we fear so much that we are afraid to stand up for what we believe. We are afraid to tell the truth because we’re afraid about what others think of us. We need to release the jail cells of our minds and let everything out because society will benefit if people cared about others and didn’t judge them for what they think needs to be done. This is completely burning our society and government and I thank Lupe Fiasco for bringing this song to the surface and warning us of our lacks in society.
Clark2
This is my room. It may seem either neat or tidy to you, in respect to your own room. To me, it’s just perfect. Not a complete mess but it’s definitely got “character,” as my mom says. I’ll start with the door. On my door is a bag of dresses. There are prom dresses, formal dresses, and sundresses inside. Sometimes I’ll just peek in and look at them. I figure this is one part of my room to analyze with a feminist lens. I look at the dresses because they are pretty and they make me feel pretty. Society has taught me that dresses are what I’m supposed to wear. All women wore dresses even since slave times, Laura Ingalls Wilder times, and through the ‘50’s housewife theme. It’s the “girly” thing to do. Boys want girly girls, not butch chicks, as wives. In wearing dresses, women satisfy their own stereotypes as well as the stereotypes that men want us to fall into. Probably the main reason that girls feel pretty in dresses is because we know that boys like to see us in dresses. They like the tight, fitted, and short aspects of dresses. They also like seeing the effort we put into our appearance. Also behind my door I have a jewelry organizer. That also has to do with the fact that we make an effort to look nice to attract males. The role women play is wearing heels, makeup, jewelry, dresses, and having long flowing hair. I have symbols of all of those things openly displayed in my room. On my bed I have extra clothes that I’ve decided against every morning. That is the messiest part of my room. I’ll analyze that with a Freudian lens. I have a completely organized way of doing things in my life and my bed is no exception. I have pants on one side, sweatshirts on the other, and shirts in between. Some outfits get thrown out because I don’t think they’d satisfy either myself, my classmates, or my family. There really is always a battle of id versus superego going on in my head every morning in my head. On my big dresser I have my corsages, calendar, pictures of friends, family and the boyfriend, and my makeup. My corsages should show that I’m well off financially, or at least the guy who gave them to me is. Flowers are special to every girl but they cost money. I hold on to mine maybe to remind me that I am worth money, not just time. The pictures show that I am in friendship circles. I have pictures of my sisters and friends who are important or who remind me of good memories I have had with them. They associate me with the rest of my solid middle-class standing. My makeup is again a sign of my femininity and maybe also my class. I have enough money to buy the things that I like and think are important to me. My closet doors are mirrors. Maybe a sign on id. It’s easy to look at myself when a mirror is the size of my wall. I can see easily how good, or bad, I look every morning before I walk out of my room and leave. If I don’t like it, I turn back to the pile of clothes on my bed and try once more to get just the perfect look. My room itself is very childish. The walls are a sea green and light blue. There are hundreds of fish that were once hand-stenciled on by my mother. This is probably a Freudian symbol of me holding onto my childhood in my everyday life. There are stuffed animals, coloring books, colored pictures, and sheep all about my room. This does not seem like the room of a 17-year-old girl because of so many childish things I’m savoring, whether subconsciously or consciously. Everything in my room is here for a reason, whether it be to show off, hold on to, or symbolize something.
Oleson pd. 2
I chose highschool to analyze through the critical lens textbook. Through the Feminist lens gender plays a role in many things associated with a high school environment. In sports, women definitely get the short end of the stick. It’s not uncommon for a men to play volleyball or even dance but there are very few women, if any who wrestle or play football. Majority of teachers in schools are women because they’re still expected to take care of kids. If you go through the lunch line you will notice that there are only females who make the food, like traditional gender roles.
Through the Freudian lens you can take a look at the seniors at how they choose classes. Some seniors follow their ids and take simple classes slacking off their senior year, while others fill their schedules with challenging classes and will later excel. Also students who follow their id, never study for classes and cheat even though their superego is most likely telling them not to.
Through the Marxist lens you can analyze anything from student clothing to administrative positions. At the low end of the ladder are janitors, and the lunch ladies, teachers and secretaries occupy the middle while the principal and superintendent are at the top. Although the lunch ladies and janitors get the lowest salary, they are still some of the happiest people in the building. Through the Marxist lens you can clearly see how power and money both function through what people wear in a social setting such as highschool. When people where elaborate clothing they appear to be wealthy and on the high end of the social ladder while poorly dressed people appear poor and on the low end of the social ladder.
In conclusion, any exhibit can be analyzed with critical lenses, even high school. You can see gender rolls in job positions as well as the economic ladder. You can see an evident social ladder as well as superegos and ids in the students.
^A. Nelson
Many people don’t see much in my pair of ARIAT lace up work boots, but to me I can see through the lenses at them. My boots are full of scratches, scuffs, dust, and a tear here and there. All those things didn’t happen overnight, it took me a couple of months of hard work just to break them in so they would fit my foot correctly. People can ask how can view a pair of work boots with lenses? Well here is how I see my boots through them. Through the Marxist lens I see money when looking at my boots, without my boots I can’t work and without work I have no money to live off of. A person can also see which class I belong to also just by looking at how worked my boots are. A person doesn’t see a rich person that lives on the golf course out working in worn down work boots. The boots also symbolize how I climb the social ladder with all the scratches, scuffs, tears, and dust are symbols of how I have been kicked down the social ladder and started climbing back up again. Looking through a Freudian lens a person could tell that I like to satisfy my ID when I buy work boots. The boots I buy are usually the most expensive, good looking, and safest boot they make. The most expensive and best looking boot because you have to impress people at everything these days it seems like, even at work! My boots also symbolize how the man of the family plays the gender role and is supposed to be the money maker and care taker of the family, ARIAT shows this by offering many different styles to men but only a set few for the ladies. After seeing my boots through the lenses I see there not just a leather boot, they are a tool, that is to be used to help succeed in life.
Sundvold, pd.2
When I look at my cabin in the Black hills I see my favorite place in the world! My get away from all my worries. When I analysis my cabin it becomes more then what I really think. As you walk up the steps there is gate waiting for you to unlock because we have had predictors such as porcupines and many dogs. If you analysis this the porcupines and dogs you see we are trying to protect our land just as much as we do to keep it looking the best, keeping up with our ladder status. In the hills that we are not afraid to show we have money because it is a competition out there on who has the best looking cabin or the biggest deck space. As you get into the enclosed porch you will see all the deer heads and a elk heads. Theses heads are a symbol of my grandpas id being satisfied and showing he is a male and he can get a nice elk or deer and wants to show it off. This also helps my grandpa realize that he can provide for his family and be a macho hunter. As you come into the cabin to the living room off the addition you see the television, yeah it is from the 1950s but we really don't watch it besides the news at night I think it is a symbol to my grandma that it still works at she doesn't have to replace it. In the living room there is also three chairs and one pull out sofa. The seating arrangement was done by my grandma but it is set up so my grandpa has the best view of the television. I think this is because in the years proceeding the male has always got to pick the channel and to have the best view and my grandma lets him because that is the feminist thing to do that is what all women were taught from society to do. In the kitchen everyone has a specific spots at the table and my grandma, mom, and I always do the cooking because as my grandpa says it he went out all day to catch the fish we can cook it. This is were my grandma mom and I full to the oppression of being the the feminist category because we were taught to cook and clean up the mess if grandpa or my dad bring in supper. This is the analysis of my cabin in the black hills and I will still call my sanctuary even looking at in a new way.
Dede 2
As a fan of country music I choose to analyze the song Bait a Hook by Justin Moore. The song is heavy with feminism. He talks about how the guy is very much like a city boy. He can't bait a hook, skin a buck, and he hasn't ever driven a truck. Culture has a big influence on our roles in society. This is shown by the line "I heard he's got a Prius, 'cause he's into bein' green". Saying that if your a male and driving an eco-friendly car your not manly. The limitations put on people are caused by society. The creaters gender affects the exhibit in the way he views things. Justin Moore may be saying that he's offended that he has been replaced with a city boy, who can't do anything that he can. The social expectations of men in this song are that if you can't bait a hook, skin a buck, or can drink a lot of alcohol then your not manly. Today in society men are valued by the things they can do, such as knowing where they are going. This is expressed by the line "Does he drive the interstate, or take them old back roads?" This song expresses many different things under the Feminist lens.
Grimmius 1
When I watch one of my favorite shows, “Awkward”, I see many lenses. First, Marxist lens, Matty Mckibben is a very popular upperclassmen who has won both genetic and environmental lotteries. He is looked up to and a role model to the entire school. People are blinded by others’ outlook rather then what’s the truth about them. The popular kids like Sadie, Jake, and Matty rule the school only because of power, status, money and winning environmental and genetic lotteries. Others are just little specks of dust who get in the popular kids way and try to conform, turning some popular people to attack them.
Secondly, Freudian lens, Jenna is a girl who blends into a crowd. She “attempted” suicide and failed. She now is treated like a disease and is attacked when she gets a chance to conform by having relations with Matty. People reject it and try to destroy her completely so she can’t wiggle her way in because of Matty. Jenna’s past and people’s superego’s get the best of them and they reject those who are not what they consider “okay” to be in the same label as them.
Lastly, Feminist lens, this show has stereotypes, gender roles, and sexist content. They always show the popular kids as good-looking jocks who have a lot of money. They have the band geeks who are wearing glasses and are rejected by other groups. Guys are show to be the manly man and cheating on someone. There is no stable, healthy relationship with two people who aren’t perfect and popular. The only way to keep a relation or relationship with someone is by doing something that’s sexual and has no emotional meaning.
Before analyzing and studying The Lion King and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest I never noticed any of this. I just thought it was an interesting show that reflects what high school students have to go through on a daily basis. After learning about the lenses this show was revealing many, many lenses and examples of them. It’s a good show that can get you hooked, just like the directs and creators want us to.
Fontenille7
The exhibit that i used for this blog task, using the three lenses to interpret was a song by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, The song is 40 Day Dream.
The first lens i used was a Freudian lens i think this song using this lens is probably one of the best ways to interpret it it definetly has a huge amount of narcissistic bliss in it and that is more then obvious, by saying things like "'im sleeping cause this dream's too amazing'" wich is filling his satisfaction and acheiving narcissitic bliss also he expresses how its so much of a"'magical mystery... it must be a lie.'" so its basically to unbealivable to be true to him once a gain showing narcissitic bliss. Theres also some sexual motivation he described how a women has jumper cable lips which is a desire to keep kissing her becaus when you are shocked (with love) you dong want to let go of it wich is how i interpreted it with the Freudian lens.
This is also a very good exhibit to use a marxist lens on. There are plenty of suttle hints at that lean towards fighting the man and capitalism. Hes kind of a free spirited man and if hes going to sleep for 40 days as described in his song he is probably against capitalism as he is feeding his id it could fall under a Freudian lens but i can also see it as a revolt against it and he is lower on the economic pyrimad and he knows it be he can imbrass it while others sometimes can not. He could also be in some kind of dream world that the government has created for him and everything is just a dream and he goes threw the phases of life just like a robot. so he could all so be (contridicting myself) succesful in this dream world and be on top of the pyrimid instead of on the bottom off it but he is still just going threw life sleeping in a dream.
I struggled more with the feminist lens more then with the other two, but then I saw how mesmerized he was by this women that he talks about and it could easily be a love song too. He describes how its to good to be true and that it must be a lie. The women is satisfying him in ways he never thought were imaginable by a women and it almost shows an owner ship over her she is a drug and he has no intention on stopping if she likes it or not that is not up to her he says things like if if i come out of this dream "' I swear I'll go crazy'" demonstrating that he really does not want it (the relating ship) to end and he will do anything to stop that from happening.
I chose to analyze Nike because you can use all three lenses while analyzing it. The first lens you can analyze it with is the marxist lens. Nike doesn’t make their products here in the U.S. they go to other countries such as China, Taiwan, India, Thailand, and Vietnam. They do this because they don’t have to pay the people as much as they do here. They are greedy and just want to make as much money as possible so they pay them very little to make them then they sell them for a ridiculous amount of money here in the U.S. because people will pay for it. The people who make these products for them are probably paid very poorly and they probably don’t have very much money to begin with so they have to do this job for little pay because they aren’t able to get a different job. Another lens you could use is the feminist lens. One way you can use this is by seeing that the people who run Nike are all men and no women. Another thing is if you go on the Nike store there are a lot more products for men then there is for women. Also when you go on Nike they have pictures of people wearing their products and usually there are only men on their. They might have a woman on there but if they do it isn’t a big picture. You can also look at it with the freudian lens. We buy all these products to make us look more appealing to each other. A lot of people will pay ridiculous amounts of money for a pair of Nike shoes when they could just go to walmart and get like twenty dollar shoes but since its not name brand they usually wouldn’t.
Zens 1
I choose to analyze modified cars and how people react to these cars, I see the Marxist, feminist and Freudian Lenses. When you have a nice car that looks fast and can run 10 seconds on a quarter mile, you’d see the Marxist lenses it shows that you have the money to make is quick. When I recently went to Autocross, I saw a guy racing a skyline that’s roughly 80,000 dollars. When I first saw him I thought he had to be loaded with money, won most of the “lotteries” and was probably higher class then the rest of the “kids” racing Honda CRX and Mazda Miata. Freudian lenses can also come into play when you have a modified car, since I was little I saw my dad working on 1969 camaros with a 350, I wanted to have a car like that. Not only that but you began to get arrogant. You start to think your car is going to be faster and nicer then the others. Most importantly I see the feminist lenses, when you are a girl into cars you either get “stereotyped” as being a tomboy, or underestimated. Not knowing that I can modify my car to be nicer and faster then theirs. Even when I just drive on a daily bases I pull up to a red light, and my car beings to roll back a little, I’ll always have that one person look at me like I shouldn’t be driving a manual, Or when I’d drive my thunderbird and the whistle of my turbo goes off, you get someone to make a smart comment. Also when you see an old Malibu or any old “boat” sitting on 20” rims you automatically think, that is an African American. Even when you see a “Ricey” Honda civic you automatically think that is an Asian. There is Marxist, Freudian, and feminist Lenses everywhere.
Knudtson7
I’m choosing to analyze the United States Military, and specifically the Air Force. It’s very easy to analyze the Air Force through a feminist lens, simply because anything military affiliated isn’t considered a natural women’s role in society. The military has always been seen as a mans job and something manly to do. If you’re in the military, you’re strong and brave and everything that’s cracked up to be “manly.” Now, women on the other hand, are expected to be in the kitchen cooking dinner and goodies and watching the children. I have a strong interest in joining the Air Force and would like to break that barrier.
A little harder to see through would be the Marxist lens. If you are a person that doesn’t know a lot about the military or has never been exposed to the military this might be a little harder to understand. There are some unseen battles or differences seen by the different branches of the military. The Marines are more of the upper class “B-A” type of soldiers, the bullet catchers so to speak. Next would probably be the Navy, which I don’t know a whole lot about. After that would definitely be the Army. My dad is in the Army and it’s very evident that the Army is the grungy, dirty, bottom feeders of the military. They are kind of treated not the best and don’t get all the finer living arrangements. On the lower end of the “B-A” scale is most definitely the Air Force. People in different branches joke and call them the “Chair Force” meaning they just sit on chairs to do their job. The Air Force does get treated a little better, but it’s all in the way of life. If that’s what you want and how you decided you want to live your life, then go for it. What I’m trying to get at, is that through a Marxist ideology, the military has classes and the Air Force is probably at the bottom, although in my eyes, I find it to be at the top.
The hardest way to analyze the Air Force is through the Freudian lens. One way it might fit is that my dad is in the military, and that’s initially how I got interested in joining. This could go under the fact that I’m trying to be like my opposite gender parent. Also, maybe in the after fact of being in the military and going to war you might suffer from PTSD, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, which is a type of anxiety disorder. It can occur after you've seen or experienced a traumatic event that involved the threat of injury or death. With having this disorder, you might experience feelings of guilt and denial, or have dreams that can be interpreted.
Over all it’s kind of difficult to see the Air Force or Military through all the lenses, but if you look hard enough, it can be done.
Swanson 1
The exhibit I chose to use for this blog task is a song by Ciara called Like a Boy . I am going to use the Feminist lens to analyze this song. In this song, it talks a lot about gender roles and gender expectations. Ciara is practically calling out the guys on the way they treat girls and just over all the way that they act. The hook of the song is: “Wish we could switch up the roles, and I could be that. Tell you I love you but when you call I never get back. Would you ask them questions like me, like where you be at? Cause I'm out 4 in the morning, on the corner rolling, doing my own thing.” I interpreted this as her saying that guys tell girls that they are doing one thing when they are really doing something completely different. She is also saying how guys tell girls that they love them and they end up not really meaning it, they are only saying it because they want something from the girl. At another point in the song it goes: “Security codes on everything. Vibrate so your phone don't ever ring. Joint Account, and another one he don't know about.” I think that this part means that this guy is pretty much playing the girl. Why would you have a joint account then have one that your girl doesn’t know about? Clearly you are hiding something if you are hiding an account from them. Also, fwhy would you have your phone on vibrate so it never rings? Do you do that so your girl doesn’t hear your phone go off, so she doesn’t think you are doing stuff behind her back? Another part of the song says: “Keep a straight face when ya tell a lie. Always keep an air-tight alibi.” This part is saying that you have to have a close buddy to be your alibi so when you tell a lie your girl will still believe you. My one favorite parts would have to be, “what he don’t know won’t break his heart” because, it’s kind of like the saying, “what you don’t know won’t hurt you” but yet, sometimes the things you don’t know are the ones that hurt the worst, and I think that is what this song is trying to get at. Another favorite part is: “If I act like you, walk a mile off in yo shoes. Would Ya Like That? I'm messing with your head again, dose of your own medicine.” I like this because it is straight out saying that some of the things guys do really hurts girls and they don’t like it and they are sure that the guy wouldn’t like it if it happened to them either. This part stood out most to me because Ciara said she was going to give the guy a dose of his own medicine, and I liked it because not many girls have the courage to stand up and do that for themselves. I chose this song because Ciara tries to flip the roles around and get the guys to see that some of the ways that they treat girls, and the things that they do, can really hurt a girl. No one wants to be with someone that is constantly lying and playing games with their minds, and that is kind of what happens in this song.
Bennett 7
Watching the film _Finding Nemo_ countless times grew more boring each time. It was the happy ending and a solid story line, but some things weren't as clear as I thought the first few times I viewed this film. I used the feminist lense to examine Marlin. He's a selfish fish desiring to recreate another one of him. As he says "...how about we name them Marlin Jr." for simplicity. Well why not just George or Gina? If he hadn't lost all of his children but one, would he have gone looking for the three or four of the tens of fish? No, because enough of his genes were still out and about swimming. The setting of their home is on the reef, such as the life of Beverly Hills. As you can see in the film, the home is above everyone else. The Marxist lense shows me the critical view point that shows me that the sweet, innocent, and good looking clown fish are the rich families in society in contrast to the burglar, the dirty shark that comes to eat his family. All of that says having a nice home, looking good, and having a hot wife makes you above others and if you're dirty and homeless you're a thief in society stealing tax payer's money. Freudian lenses show me that through out the movie Dori had been deserted by her pack due to stupidity. Yes Dori loses the pack, but why would the director make it so she is the one of the many of her kind to get lost? Well I find through out the movie that Dori faces an advantage in nature with Darwinism. She may lack the memorization skills and common sense, but her quiet nature protects her through out. The silver fish help her find the way, but not Marlin, because she approaches them with a timid nature. Her sympath for others is what finds Nemo in the end, and the daring nature, although stupid, gets Marlin and herself farther in the adventure.
Franklin 1
Magazines are a form of not only informing the public on current events and conflicts but also to entertain the minds of its readers. The subject of magazines is easy to analyze with all three of the critical lenses. This form of media has turned humble people, consciously or subconsciously, into narcissistic beings. The use of the Freudian lens will reveal that magazines intentionally advertise certain products to make readers envious of the models within the ad and ultimately convince the public to buy the product. People are so easily persuaded by the success of others even if it only is a hired model posing to look the part. They want to satisfy their id and be someone they’re not just to be socially accepted. People want to perfect themselves to act and appear as models in the media even though this isn’t who they are. Again, society is more concerned about how others view them than how they actually view themselves. This can relate to One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest in that the staff wants the patients to act according to their standards and don’t want to acknowledge who these individuals actually are.
The Marxist lens can easily be applied to magazines as well. Product advertising is a huge market in our time. Buying and selling is the most important thing it seems to most humans. Companies hire models to look successful and happy in their ads to intrigue the public. Dingy, generic models in advertisements don’t usually draw attention. Money and power are equally connected to happiness according to these ads. For example an athletic shoe ad. The company chooses models with strong features and physiques and convinces consumers that if they buy this product, they too can look like these models…we all know this is highly unlikely. Money, power, and happiness should not and cannot be achieved through advertisements.
The Feminist lens is the most obvious lens used to analyze magazines. Young girls are a huge target for teen magazines. This companies know how vulnerable young girls are and they wrongly take advantage of that. Magazines distort the minds of these girls into thinking they need to strive for a certain appearance, when in reality they should embrace the beauty they naturally obtain. Magazines supposedly embody the feminine world and help women to become more beautiful with tips and articles to doing so, but these ads can have a negative affect on some. All together, the media can be used not only for positive things but for negative as well. They convince people to be who they aren’t to achieve happiness. Viewing this through the critical lenses helped me to realize this.
Donovan 7
I analyzed MTV’s reality TV show, Jersey Shore with mostly a Marxist view. This show is filled with narcissistic adults that act more like teenagers than adults. They have very few job responsibilities and party every night. Mike, “The Situation”, says he’s the leader of the house, but in reality he keeps viewers tuned in by creating drama and engaging in fights. One might say that Mike is greedy for attention. Jenny portrays herself to be an amazing girlfriend, yet she goes out on the shore dressed much like a stripper. This makes me question her motives, what message is she giving off if she is in a relationship? I viewed Sammy with a feminist view. Ron treats her as his possession, more of an item than a woman. She has been molded into “wife material” by Ron. She is always on his side and even pampers him. I think the reason they fight so much is because Sammy is always in a constant internal battle with who she truly is and who Ron wants her to be. These characters represent the bourgeoisie, however, they don’t really work for the privileges given to them. For example, in one episode, Snookie clocks in for work drunk, and then continues to drink. In most jobs, one would get fired for doing something as absurd as this. However, she merely gets a slap on the wrist. This is proof they have more freedom than the lower class, or proletariat. This also shows us the meritocracy because they create their own rules, with nobody else in mind, and in a sense they are governed themselves. It was easy for the cast of Jersey Shore to gain class mobility. They used to be nobodies until this show aired. Once they gained notoriety they completely forgot about the classes below them. Ronny, Sam, Snookie, Deena, Vinny, Pauly D, and Mike are all examples of superstructures. Their idols that dominate the era are sex and alcohol, and they have successfully managed to satisfy their ID’s
Merkel, 2
Seventeen magazines. Through the feminist lens Seventeen is telling women how they should look. If they don’t have “the look” then you aren’t what people want to look at. Whether you want to believe it or not you try to impress people. By looking like the girls in the magazines you think you can impress everyone. Even if it means hurting yourself or doing things you wouldn’t normally do. Girls were raised to impress men. We were raised to look like women that men like to look at. In today’s society it’s a constant battle with who looks the best and who is the skinniest and who is the prettiest and who has the nicest clothes and who has all the money. These magazines put images in our heads and we try to be that girl. It is not showing girls that they are perfect the way they are, and they don’t have to be anyone but themselves. They shouldn’t have to think they have to be “that girl” in the magazine that all the boys want and all the girls want to be. Women are socially constructed to impress men as stated above. Throughout the years women have been stereotyped to be the ones that have to put all the work into looking just right to be accepted by a man. We have to wear the dresses, have the long beautiful hair, wear the make-up, all to impress. This has never stopped and it most likely will never stop because of the image that keeps getting put into females’ heads from the very beginning. Gender expectations are set out right in front of us so we know, and in this case it’s shown through Seventeen magazine. You should be able to be called beautiful all the time.
Corcoran 5
I am going to analyze the song “Still Cleaning this Gun” by Rodney Atkins with the feminist lens and how society keeps the gender roles working. This is a great song and really shows that dads care and worry for there daughter’s and can teach males the quality of hegemony; but why do only the females get “protected” and why do only the males get “interviews”? First, the male has to get the courage to ask a female out and have the pressure and stress of doing this act and the female either can deny them or agree. Second, the male has to tip off his tank and have enough money for the date and deal with exploitation so they know where to go and look like they have class; because in society that’s the right thing to do. The female has to put her best outfit on and have her make up and hair done perfect while the male could show up looking like a slob. Sense when was appearance a competition on a date? Third, the male has to show up on time and wait a while for the female to finish getting ready. During this time period the parents get to interrogate the poor male. The male has to meet the parents on the first date and the protective parents can be kind of oppression; more particular the father especially when they have a gun out or tell the male he has a gun; “…I'll see you when you get back. Bet I'll be up all night. Still cleaning this gun” –Rodney Atkins. While the female gets to meet the male’s parents whenever he feels like it or if she demands to meet them, so it could be years before the female meets the male’s parents. It’s also surprising that the parents, particularly the father, believe that the male has one thing on his mind. “Who seems to have just one thing on his mind” –Rodney Atkins. Maybe the male has good intents and really wants to respect her and just get to know the female for who she is and what she believes. Do parents always have to assume just because, they are wanting to protect her? Finally the two can go out and enjoy the evening together but he better have her home on time!
-Schroeder, 5th
For this blog task, I have chosen to analyze my immediate family. First, looking through the feminist lens it is apparent why certain tasks are done by certain family members. My mom, being the head woman of the household has the responsibility of cooking, cleaning, and caring for us. She also works as a nurse taking care of patients all day which is also very female stereotypical. My dad, however, is the only male in the house living with five other females. Therefore, he naturally holds the responsibility of doing yard work, fixing things and being the “boss”. His career is also very expected of a male. He is a mechanic and fixes cars, like a guy is supposed to. Growing up my three sisters and I have watched this and been taught to cook and clean like my mom. However, we do not always play the feminist role exactly as expected by society. Although I could never fix a car or build a shed, my dad has influenced us to be athletic, and enjoy “boy” experiences such as fishing and hunting. The reason for this may possibly be that he didn’t have any sons to play catch with or go fishing, so therefore we were able to enjoy those none feminine activities.
Using the Marxist lens to analyze my family it is interesting to look at how we compete as siblings with one another subconsciously. My parents do well at not choosing a favorite daughter or at least not revealing it helping us to realize we are all better at different things. However, this has not stopped society from judging and comparing which is the smartest, prettiest, nicest, or most athletic. This has caused us to strive to climb the “social ladder” although we don’t even necessarily realize we’re doing so.
Analyzing through the Freudian lens it is interesting to look at how my two oldest sisters that are both married both have similarities to the life we had growing up creating the narcissistic bliss. Both sisters went into the medical field, like my mother, and both married men that like to hunt, fish, play sports, and are more laid back like my father.
Hoff 5
“Your tribe has spoken” is not what a Survivor player wants to hear as their fire on their torch is put out. Survivor is a television game and reality show on CBS. Overtly viewers only see people competing to win the grand prize of money. By examining this exhibit I began to realize there is much more going on than what appears on the surface. A Marxist critic would note that many people from all different social classes are put on an island to work together to survive. Some of the wealthy players will hide their true identity to “save” themselves from the greed of the other players. The more attractive and strong players are accepted very quickly opposed to the weak. The accepted did not earn the power; they won the genetic lottery. To survive in this game, the lower class typically follows what the more powerful players set as a plan. Another way to analyze Survivor is through a Feminist approach. Gender plays an enormous role in the television show. The males do a majority of the fishing, hunting, and labor on the island. To fulfill what is expected of the females, they cook, wash clothes, and occasionally build the fire. Some of the women will go against the gender norms and go fishing or hunting. Some males view this as a threat and vote them off which shows they do not want to be equal to a woman. The women are the ones who dominate in puzzle challenges though, while the men flourish in the physical challenges. It could be because of biological limitations that are set in stone. Each gender has specific roles and expectations to fill, and if they do not the tribe members will eliminate them. Studying Survivor as a Freudian critic is very intriguing. Many of the players for a short period of time are following their id. They all leave their families, jobs, and routine lifestyle to go to an island with limited supplies. Unconsciously, the players may want to get away from the standard society. All the players consciously are thinking about the prize at the end of the game though, which is $1,000,000. The players ignore their superego and favor their id out in the wild. An honest person may come into the game and change to win it, but after analyzing them, they are actually subconsciously following their ids. Survivor is a unique television show that can be analyzed through the three lenses.
Pollema 2
I chose to analyze sports. In sports the feminist lens comes into play. If you watch ESPN or any channel with sports on it, what do you usually see them talking about or showing? “Men sports.” You very rarely ever see women sports or hear them talking about women athletes or teams, you also very rarely see a woman host talking on a show. Men have a channel all devoted to football, NFL network, why don’t the women have a WNBA network channel? Are they not good enough to support? But then why again do so many women enjoy watching football or baseball? Do they like to watch them and just ignore the fact that there is rarely women sports on? They are always talking about football or the NBA or MLB. Women college sports are also shown very rarely. Do men think that playing these sports are gender roles that only men can do and not women? The Freudian lens also comes into play. All those baseball players who take steroids are listening to their id. Professional players sometimes skip high school and go straight to the pros with no schooling, or they go to a college but only get into a big college because of their athletic talents, if they were to go with their superego they would go to college to get an education and playing sports would be a bonus. I think that many men who don’t make it to a professional sport also envy the players so they want to try to live their football or baseball or any sport through the people who did make it to that stage. You could also use the Marxist lens. Many professional sport players are at the top of the social ladder. They also usually make a lot of money for playing sports.
-Paul5
I volunteer at the Sioux Falls Humane Society because I love animals. While volunteering there, people in orange and tan uniforms are also there. They are inmates from the state penitentiary. I am choosing to analyze these inmates working at the Humane Society by looking through the three different lenses. A Marxist critic would notice how they are conforming to society. The inmates did something to end up in the prison and now because society tells them they can’t be ‘free’ yet, they have the option to work someplace or sit in their cell all day. Most of these inmates are part of the proletariat; everyday they interact with the bourgeoisie. The inmates aren’t allowed to talk to other people first because that is what the people in charge of them tell them. The authorities with power over the inmates make sure they do exactly as they are told. As I walk through the animal shelter it is interesting to see which ones look at me and which ones don’t because they seem like they are scared to. The Feminist lens plays a major role when analyzing the inmates. Every single inmate I have seen is a male. Males occupy majority of prison cells. In a lot of people’s eyes a male figure represents a criminal. Society views men as more dangerous than women. So it is only logical that when in a facility with inmates they would all be males. When it comes to being a law-abiding citizen, the gender expectation is that of a female. I find looking through the Freudian lens most intriguing. The inmates obviously did something bad to end of in the state penitentiary. Whatever crime they committed they were listening to their id. They were acting on impulse, not really thinking through the outcome of their decision. The inmates also achieved narcissistic bliss because they weren’t thinking about anyone but themselves. I have talked to a few of the inmates before and they are just like everyone else. They happened to make one mistake and listen to their ‘icky demon’. The inmates at the Humane Society are very nice and can be analyzed through all three lenses we have studied.
Christensen 2
I chose Grand Theft Auto 4 to analyze through critical lens. This game if you analyze is a much better game to play. Though it may be racist and sexist game it can be still fun to play. A Marxist lens in this game is Niko Bellic wanting to have power and to basically survive. He is hired from different mob bosses and drug dealers. He moves up the rank in the city to be on a higher level of society. Another example is the men he works for; they want to have the jobs that Niko does. They try to assassinate him many different times but never succeed. Those trying to kill him show how they want him out of the picture. A Freudian lens is the missions or jobs that Niko has to do. Niko on some missions has to decide who to kill. For example there are two characters that are brothers in this game and you (Niko) have to decide who lives and who dies. So who you decide to kill in the game changes his mental and physical way he lives. A feminist lens would be Kate. She is a sister of three criminals. She the whole game tries to fit in with her whole family. The brothers treat her like a 50’s era women. She is supposed to clean and do everything for them, while they go party and commit crimes.
This game has many different ways of showing all of the lens. All of these lenses are in perfect view of the gamer. They help gamers analyze the game and get them thinking, to help the gamers analyze the exhibit as well. It also gets the game industry all lot of money because they create stories that we are interested in.
Sam Keller Pd. 5
The dance world is what I know so, it’s only natural to say I chose to analyze dance through the three critical lenses. When an average person thinks about dance I’m sure the first thought is a “pretty ballerina” going through their mind. Dancers on the other hand would think about the hours spent training or taking classes, the physical pain that is endured through repetitive practice, and the joy of overcoming boundaries. As dancers, we learn that practice doesn’t mean anything unless we give it our all and practice like we are performing. This could be looked at through a Marxist lens because in order to be on top and win we have to train like we want it. The best teams in world have the want to win. They give it their all no matter the circumstances. Just like the society, the dance world wouldn’t be anything without the fight to win or the fight to be on top. We strive for perfection within the routines and the perfect image. This is where the Freudian lens would take place. Dancers have the image of being strong, fit, and poised. This is drilled into our heads whether we realize it or not. We are told to put meaning and power behind our movement from our peers, coaches, and judges. We work towards just that. In the same way that women are pressured to have the perfect image in society, dancers are pressured to have the perfect bodies. They are always being compared to other dancers. So, in order to get jobs, dancers have to constantly compete against each other to be the best. The Feminist lens could be used because the females in the dance world are portrayed as being extremely powerful. Some of the most famous dancers and dance teams demand the crowd’s attention by expressing the feeling of the routine through their movement and they happen to be women. The women are dominant in this industry and it shows. An average person wouldn’t think of a male being the “pretty ballerina” we are raised to believe that only a female would fit that criteria.
Tofteland Pd. 2
I choose to analyze the New York Yankee baseball franchise. All the critical lens can relate to the game in many different ways. Starting with the Marxist critical lens, money factors in a great deal. It costs money to play baseball, to watch baseball and to buy authentic sports memorabilia. The Yankees are easily the wealthiest franchise in all of baseball and for this they are hated or looked down upon by other teams or by non Yankee fans. This is an easy target when talking about salary caps in baseball, which do not and have never existed in the baseball world. The Yankees have a lot of power in the American League because of their money and because of the strong lineup they have created for themselves. Through a Marxist lens, the New York Yankees have a very strong reputation. The Yankees are a powerhouse team when it comes to the social ladder and on the money, power and class system. When looking through the feminist critical lens, it is obvious that there are no females in the Major League Baseball Association. That’s simply what it comes down to, there is no discussion needed, no girls allowed. I understand that it’s strictly a professional men’s league, but why isn’t there a professional women’s league to compensate for the girls who dream of becoming a “professional” softball player? What do those girls shoot for, they can’t fantasize about being a professional softball player, that’s for sure. When looking through a Freudian Psychoanalytic critical lens, the men in the Major League Baseball Association can let out their id’s and not get in trouble for it. They can go up to the plate and crush the ball to relieve stress or just to feel good about themselves. That also serves the purpose of showing off for their female friends watching in the stands, watching them contribute to their male gender role expectations of being tough and showing their masculinity. Narcissistic bliss comes into play as well, grown men can continue to play the favorite childhood game of baseball, but now as a job and get paid good money for it. Now that I managed to watch the game and analyze my views on Yankee baseball, I can return my full attention to the current baseball game at hand!
McDonald.2
I chose to analyze two songs about being oppressed by society. The first song (which I am a fan of) is Outsider by The Daylights. This song, to me, is about an individual who is on the "outside" and looking down on society from the "87th floor of a high rise in New York". As the individual is watching the city he realizes he is an outsider and can't fit into society. He goes on to explain "I know since I was young and I feel it in my bones, this is how it's always meant to go". I think he is saying that everyone knows from early on in life that society has different classes and we can't always decide what class we belong to, that's just how it is. Like in Cuckoo's Nest when Chief explains how the patients in the ward are who they are and that's just how it is.
The other song is Invisible by Skylar Grey. In this song we can use the Feminist lens to understand how society is making her feel depressed and "invisible". The role that soceity pushes upon women is to look sexy for men and to be perfect and pretty. In the song the individual says she cuts her skin and tries everything "to make them see me, but all they see is someone that's not me". This explains how people try to break out of society's oppression but others don't see the real them. This is also similar to the situation in Cuckoo's Nest where society sees the patients as just broken machinery and doesn't see them as who they really are. The song goes on to say "every day I try to look my best, even though inside I'm such a mess". This reinforces the fact that society has broken us to think that every day we have to look pretty or handsome when some people are actually dying inside and we don't even know. Last, the song explains how some people try to cry out for help but no one hears them; again making them try to do anything (like cutting themselves) just so people will hear them. Do not let society/the Combine get to you!
-Huntimer 2
I would like to analyze for this blog assignment my room. To most people their room is their safe haven and feels like no one can hurt them there. And that is how I feel every time I am in my room. Everything in my room is in its place. All neat and organized just the way I like. Pictures of my friends and boyfriend everywhere. Every time I walk into my room I get a big feeling of relief. Having my nice warm bed ready for me after a long day of school and soccer. Most people if they were to walk into my room they would probably never knew a girl lived in that room. I have a few dresses from prom and formal in my closet. But that is about it. I guess you could say I am just a tom boy and my room reflects that. I use to try and hide that from my friends because I didn’t want to be judge for not acting like a girl. But then I it occurred to me that I shouldn’t care what people think. Because every ones room should reflect who they really are. When you walk into my room you will see soccer sweatshirts hanging all over my room. I'm sure that most girls have closets full of clothes and shoes because that is “what women are suppose to have”. According to the feminist lens women are suppose to have all the clothes and shoes. Which I think is crazy. I have this window seat in my room that I sit at and look out the window thinking about everything that happened in my day and everything that I have to do the next few days. It always surprises me how if a girl dresses a certain way boys go crazy and if they don’t dress that way they really don’t see us. It’s interesting how feminist boys can really be.
Jones pd. 1
I've chosen to examine one of my favorite shows, The Office. Starting off viewing it with a Marxist lens, there are several distinct social classes in the show. Throughout the show, you're almost forced into liking the characters Jim and Pam because they seem like the only normal ones. As the show progressed I started to notice distinct social groups among the different types of workers. The 'sales team' for the most part is the most likable and the most competent. At one point in the show, a character named Ryan progressed up the company 'ladder' to a relatively high executive position. Later we find out that he had cheated his way up and was sent straight back down. The company as a whole can be very oppressive and greedy towards its employees, as most any company in a capitalist society needs to be. At several points in the show, we're shown the 'rulers' of the company, and most of the time they're simply relaxing and reaping profits. Overall however, the working class of the show seems to be fairly happy with their arrangement.
The Office isn't particularly oppressive or condescending towards women. The women in the show seem to have quite generic working jobs – they do their work as well as the men. Throughout the show's history, there was only one woman with any sort of position of power. In the end, she failed miserably. This is the only hint towards anti-feminism in the show that I've picked up.
The show can very vividly be analyzed through a Freudian lens. Most dominantly in manager, Michael. He is extremely narcissistic and almost always chooses what his id wants. The character Jim works as sort of his superego at times, representing control over your instincts. Michael is almost always extremely selfish and often will ridicule other people to satisfy himself.
Geurts 2
The gym can be looked at in all three lenses pretty easily if you really sit back and think about it. The first thing that I notice when I walk through the doors of the gym is the guys with the sucked tight shirts to show off their muscles. They’re hoping the occasional good looking woman that walks through the door will be attracted to them. Through a Marxist lens it could also be seen that all the guys in the gym with the tight shirts, and cut offs are trying to show they’re the alpha male because they got the bigger looking muscles and lifting more wait. They’re showing off how powerful they are, by looking intimidating and stacked. On another lens something else could be analyzed, like what goes through the persons mind while going to the gym, and actually working out in the gym. I have a pretty good idea what’s going through their minds using a Freudian lens. They think they have to go to the gym to look good and be good looking to fit into society. So in their minds they feel that the more they lift the better looking they will be, every rep for them is another step closer to fitting in to society. Their superego tells them you have to do this last rep so you can look better. Society tells us that you got to look good to be socially accepted in today’s world. The feminist lens fits in to the gym also, because you don’t really see women lifting hard core weights. You see the women lifting little dumbbells and doing more flexibility things, and also working their abdominals. Why can’t women lift big and do heavy weights, because it’s not the normal thing to do. Sexy in today’s society for women isn’t ripped and bulging with muscle. Society tells them to be lean, thin, and curvy; because that’s what the men like.
Eigenberg 5
The exhibit I chose to analyze through the lenses is The Buckle. You could analyze The Buckle through all three lenses, but the one that can be used the most is the Feminist lens. First of all, women feel the pressure of looking good for men. The gender expectations tell us that woman should spend 100 dollars on a pair of jeans just to make their butt look more attractive to get the attention from the men. Many of the clothes are tight fitting jeans, short shorts, and low-cut shirts. This is very stereotypical, but very true. Another example of a feminist lens is how the clothes for woman have way more abundance than the men’s clothing. Most men don’t feel it’s necessary to buy that expensive of clothing because they don’t have the pressure to make sure they always look good. Too many women worry about impressing the opposite sex or even the same sex. One of the good things about The Buckle is that woman subjugate the men. More women work there than men. Even though the women help the men customers, they have power and more control. The Marxist lens can also be used to analyze The Buckle. Wearing brands of clothing from the buckle shows that you are in the upper class and not a proletariat. It makes you feel better about yourself. The lower classes who are unable to afford those brands feel inadequate. Also, it shows you have money, power and status. And lastly, the Freudian lens. The lower classes who can’t afford to shop at the Buckle most likely envy the people who wear those clothes. They may be in denial, feeling that people who wear clothes like that are fake and/or plastic, but I’m sure it’s really hidden envy. I’m not saying The Buckle is horrible and I don’t approve of people shopping there, because I own clothing from there myself, but it is hard to live up to the expectations the gender roles expect of woman.
Kruger.2
For this blog I thought it would be a cool idea to do it on the outdoors. I can look at the outdoors as well as the wilderness and see all sorts of things that can relate the three lenses. All three lenses can be looked through easily at the outdoors. It can also be viewed differently through every person’s eyes. Some people look at the outdoors and think it’s just a place full of bugs and that it’s not clean. I on the other hand think it is one of the greatest things in the world weather it would be in a jungle, on the top of a mountain, in the scorching heat of the desert, or just in your back yard. The lenses can easily be fitted into the outdoors. For one the Marxist lens can be shown in the wilderness because it has to do with power. Power is very prevalent in the wilderness. You have the boom of thunder, the force of strength distributed through two big horn sheep slamming into each other, or the swift mighty flow of the river plowing its way down the mountain and over the cliff. The Freudian lens comes to me in a somewhat different way. When I think of the Freudian lens and the wilderness I think of hunting. For example, when a person is out in the middle of know were with just a rifle, there is a lot going through his mind. When the big chance comes to take down the animal a person would think should I take the shot, is this the one I want? After the shot is made the person subconsciously acts like a kid in a way. You get excited and giddy with excitement that you can’t control. The last lens to look at is the Feminist lens. This lens is a little harder to see when it comes to the outdoors because it’s more of an opinion. My opinion is that men are more into the outdoors than women, because it has always been that way. I think it is that way because some women just don’t like to get dirty. Men have always been more open to the outdoors because it is what guys had to do way back when. They had to be outside working the fields and providing venison for the family. The girls on the other hand were inside the house most times cooking and cleaning. I hope that one day even more girls than now start to enjoy the outdoors as much as I do.
^^^Dede 1
An exhibit I will be analyzing for this assignment is my pickup in which I know quite well. I drive a 1995 Ford F-150 with a 300 cubic inch, inline, six cylinder engine. When someone views this pickup, it appears to look pretty nice. Viewing through a Freudian lens, it is possible I am supplying my narcissistic bliss by taking time to wash and wax it from time to time, and also displaying a large John Deere sign on the back window, also merely for my enjoyment. Owning a cheaper vehicle shows that I used my ego, saving money for wiser things such as school, over my id, getting a super expensive, and less economical v-8 engine type of pickup. When an individual looks closer, one can notice a cracked windshield, many scratches and several dents around this 17 year old machine. This can be viewed by a Marxist critic as me not having a lot of money to go and buy a new BIG pickup with lots more power and fewer flaws. This older pickup does however do more than get me to school and several of my more "blue-collar" type jobs, it works hard just like me doing hard work such as pulling larger loads than it should. A Marxist critic may question why I work more manual intensive jobs, I would answer by I was taught that hard work is how you get things in life, not just getting things handed to you like some do. The manual transmission and manual lockout axle hubs (get out to lock in the 4-wheel drive) symbolizes that my pickup isn't the fanciest or most convenient vehicle around and probably wouldn't be chosen by individuals hovering over me on the social class ladder. This old farm pickup as many would call it is, and will continue to help me climb up the social ladder (often referred to as class mobility) so one day I will have a bigger, more powerful pickup. As you are reading this, it is quite evident to find some feminist critic views from this exhibit. In our society, gender roles of men seem to be the big pickup, hard working type in which me and my pickup fall under. My pickup proves to be anything but "girlie." Hitch pins, ratcheting straps, tools, fencing supplies, and an occasional gun rides around in that pickup. In our society, men have been taught to like this sort of thing, whereas most women would not. No matter how anyone views my pickup, I am proud to drive it!
Austin Carlson PD: 1
I chose to analyze a tennis match. You can analyze a tennis match using all three lenses. By using a Marxist lens, you can see that there is a definite power system. A power system exists in both high school, collegiate, and professional tennis. The power system in college and high school would be how the top teams compare to the lower teams. For example, O’Gorman High School has always had an amazing tennis team, and they are usually the team to beat in state because you can always expect them to have high quality team, as if you were to look at the Vermillion tennis team, they do not compare anywhere near what O’Gorman can do. Gender plays a HUGE factor in the game of tennis. People who like to view different exhibits with the Feminist lenses would see the dramatic gender differences. It is a proven fact that male tennis players make at least three times the amount that a female tennis player in total tournament earnings. Reasoning for this is because society view male athletes as more superior to watch for entertainment, therefore, they have a higher maximum purse they can win compared to women. Tennis is obviously a mental game, which is perfect for the Freudian lens! Tennis is all about your mental game, and anticipation of what your opponent is going to do. You have to somehow find away into your opponents head in order to figure out what type of shot they are going to use next, and how you can counter it and win the point. All in all, you can take any exhibit that the world throws at you, and you can analyze it in whatever way makes the most sense to you in order to help you understand it further.
Johnston 5
Competition of knowledge, lust and the operating room--the life factors of Grey's Anatomy residents and interns. Each of the seven seasons of Grey's Anatomy can each be examined through the three lenses almost equally. The show has a strong Freudian view to it and writer, Shonda Rhimes, makes a clear point of it. It's not the rare diagnostics of the patients or the procedures in the operating room that are hard to remember from the previous episode, but who's been sleeping with who? It's a constant battle between everyone in the hospital, and it's never a secret. The writer makes the viewers analyze this as a resident's or intern's "in" for a surgery.
The TV show can also be easily analyzed through the marxist lenses. All surgeons in the hospital are continuously competing for chief when Richard announces his termination at the hospital. It is also a continuous competition of which doctors get the best surgeries, for Christina, it's cardio. They all want to be a part of every important surgery to impress chief and to impress Bailey, their adviser. The entire show is a climb up the social ladder.
Lastly, Grey's Anatomy from a feminist view. The main adviser of the interns is Dr. Bailey, a woman. She makes it clear to everyone in the hospital that things will be run her way, and her way only, kind of like Nurse Ratched in Cuckoo's Nest. She has the respect of everyone in the hospital as well as chief's. She is a clear leader, and she excels at what she does. Also, when chief quits, it's Calley that earns the position as chief, also a woman. Even though she is not well respected, she is a good surgeon and she was still selected to be the top. Then, there's the name of the show, Grey's Anatomy. Taken from Meredith Grey's name. Her mom, also a top surgeon like Meredith, was intimate with chief, earning her name in the hospital's title. The TV show is viewed in many ways, through many different watchers and through many different lenses.
Hoffman 5
I would really love to examine the recent protest (9/27/2011) at the University of California Berkeley. The controversial protest was a bake sale organized by the Berkeley College Republicans to stop the passing of the California Senate Bill 185, which would allow state universities to consider race, gender, ethnicity, and notional origin into choosing and deciding scholarships for admissions. The race-based prices were $2.00 for Whites, $1.50 for Asians, $1.00 for Latinos, $0.75 for Blacks and $0.25 for Native Americans with a $0.25 discount for all woman.
This protest is strongly Marxist. The protest reveals an oppressive system of the United States, and tries to debunk it. The event organizers want equality in the choosing of their college colleagues, and they want everything to be fair for all classes of society. The event is also aimed to prevent the unfair “angling” of the socioeconomic ladder so the people at the bottom aren’t given “free passes” up to the top of which the current residents have worked hard for. Race should have nothing to do with the ladder, and this bill is challenging that and how the ladder works.
Anti-femininity is also part of this event. It’s not in a way that says women deserve less, but it’s saying “Hey, throttle back a bit and don’t give women more than they’ve worked for.” If women have worked harder, then they will get more. They shouldn’t get more if they haven’t worked harder, which is what the bill is all about. The sale is saying that women deserve every bit of what men deserve, but no more without reason.
If you use a Freudian lens to examine the bake sale, you can see some envy showing. The Republicans are envious of the free money that is being given to minorities, and quite frankly they should be! You may think their ids are prevailing by “complaining” about this issue but I think their superegos are doing their job and they are doing what is best for them and for society in general.
Hosman 5
For my blog I decided to analyze my jeans! Its very easy to look at my jeans through the three different lenses. The first lens I'll start with is the marxist lens. The marxist lens would say that since my jeans are expensive, which means money. Also it could be considered then that they cost so much that it could classify them as in the upper class of jeans. I can also classify them under the feminist lens. My jeans that i'm wearing now, have big stitching and a LOT of sparkles/jewels on them. This definatly plays a gender as a female because i've NEVER seen a guy with be dazzeled jeans. I also will admit I tend to stereotype people who where these types of jeans as a little rude. And for the last lens, the Freudian Lens, I believe it has alot to do with symbols. These jeans are a symbol of money. Also dealing with your ego, if you wear the jeans you might feel cooler, because you know they cost alot. It could also play into your subconcious. Maybe since their is so much design on the back, I subconciously want people looking at my butt? I never really looked into why I wear these jeans, I like them and I think they look nice, maybe my subconcious thinks otherwise.
Seydel 7
I chose to analyze the film Limitless. It is about a man named Eddie. Eddie is an author who cannot finish is novel. He spends his days serving his id by doing nothing and is becoming very poor. He is envious of all the wealthy and upper class people. Then he runs into his ex-wife’s brother whom is a former drug dealer. He gives Eddie a pill that is supposed to enhance brain activity and allow you to be smarter and access all of your brain. After taking the pill, Eddie instantly sees the world through clearer eyes. The world around him seems completely different. His novel is finished in just for days and he can learn new languages instantly. Now that he has raised his IQ and brain power, he begins climbing the social ladder. He starts investing in the stock market and quickly starts making money. Money gives him power and happiness, and his new abilities give him endless job opportunities. Males complete dominate this film. There are no women CEOs or bosses that he talks to. Everyone in the film that is rich and powerful is a man. The males are expected to make the money, while the females are expected to live a normal life and take care of the house and family. Even though Eddie is earning mad cash and living his dream, the pill eventually starts giving him physical side effects. Evil also follows him. With all the power, people are going to be out to get you. He eventually gets into a major pickle with other people that use the pill, have used the pill, or want to get their hands on it. It is a thrilling film and I would encourage you to study it with your lenses and discover the outcome for yourself.
Wickett pd 5
I chose to analyze the Walt Disney sensation Cinderella. In this movie there is a huge example of Marxist lens. Basically, Cinderella is a poor girl wanting to have a better life. The Prince is living in a giant, gorgeous castle with servants and chefs! Of course he is living the high life. Cinderella ends up being able to go to the ball thanks to her fairy godmother, we all wish to have a fairy godmother. The Prince instantly falls in love with her! What we don't see is that the Prince thinks Cinderella is rich, just look at her gown. Prince is a much higher class than her, but they still fall in love and live happily ever after! Which is good, unless you look at it from a Freudian lens. Cinderella does seem to have that good superego going for her, but maybe her id is coming out. Quite possibly she could be just "faking" her love for the Prince to get the riches. She's tired of being kicked around by her step-sisters and step-mother. Another point is about Cinderella's Father. Did the step-mother marry him for his money? She might have gotten rid of him to have it all to her and her two daughters! Since Cinderella is there just use her as a slave, she has no where else to go! Cinderella I think didn't have the guts to stand up to all of them. If it were me I'd tell them how it is and go find a job somewhere else. I'm all about standing up for what I think is right. Which brings me to the Feminist lens. Cinderella is afraid to stand up to her step-siblings and step-mother. Is this saying that women are weak and don't know how to defend themselves? Possibly, from the side of the step-mother and sisters all women are cruel. They treat other women badly when they see something they don't have. The step-sisters and mother are jealous of Cinderella's beauty so they are going to treat her like nothing. so then Cinderella will start thinking she is nothing. The whole gender role also shows in this exhibit. Cinderella is a women in the film that is shown always cleaning and cooking. This is basically saying look what women are suppose to be doing. Also when you watch shows like The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, you see women mooching off their husbands money hiring cleaning people. They have their glits and glam while you have the people working for them have nothing. They have to deal with seeing the rich people's way of living! Just like how Cinderella has to watch her step-sisters dress up nice for the ball. Even though they aren't all that attractive, but still they get all the fancy clothes to try. Then again, we all know the ending to this movie where Cinderella gets the Prince and all the riches. The old saying of, "good triumphs evil."
Olson2
Sexism may be one of the ugliest words in society. The movie “Anchorman” is a prime example of sexism in our country, and around the world. The movie is based around the character Ron Burgundy. He is the lead anchor on San Diego’s best news show KVWN-TV Channel 4 Evening News. Life is normal with weatherman Brick Tamland, field reporter Brian Fantana and sportscaster Champ Kind. That is, until a foxy new ambitious woman takes part in the fun. Veronica Corningstone begins working at KVWN-TV, much to the outrage of the four. The men soon find out, however, that they can take advantage of Corningstone. They all try and miserably fail at winning her over, except for Ron. Ron takes her on a date and they soon start dating. After an unfortunate accident with Ron’s dog, Baxter, Corningstone is forced into the anchor role when Ron does not show up. She does the broadcast and, to the anger of the men, is named co-anchor with Ron. The two split, Ron is fired as Corningstone becomes a country success as the lone anchor, until Ron miraculously gets his job back. Just by reading what I have but above, the sexism in this movie would make a feminist explode with rage, even if it is all in good fun. The four didn’t understand that this was not a bad thing, but another great step in the culture of America. The men thought that a woman did not have the mental capacity to be an anchor. What they didn’t realize is that they barely have the capacity to have a job at all. Equality between women and men is still not here, but a movie like this helped me open my eyes to see just how rediculous some people in this world still may think.
Rokeh 7
I chose to analyze the show Spongebob Squarepants. When not watching it through any lens you’d think it was a cute, random child show. When examining it through all of the lens’s you can see much more. Through the Marxist Lens the different classes are apparent. Mr. Krabs is very high on the social ladder because he has the best business in town and is one of the richest of Bikini Bottom. Plankton on the other hand is clearly the farthest down on the social ladder because no one wants to eat at his restaurant, no one likes him, and he has no money. Mr. Krabs and Plankton continually have social tensions, and are constantly battling to have the best food. Plankton can never climb the social ladder even though he is clearly smarter than Mr. Krabs, because of all of his plans and schemes he creates.
The Freudian lens is very easy to look through, as well. First of all, Bikini Bottom is an extremely sexual name for a city, but you’d never think that because it’s a kid’s show. Spongebob and Patrick could represent two homosexual males. They have urges for each other, which is why they’re best friends and get jealous when they make new friends. Even in one of the episodes Patrick dresses up like a woman. I do think that Spongebob does not serve his id, and represents his superego. He always is on time for work, and works the hardest at The Krusty Krab, and can take care of his pet snail. Mr. Krab’s serves his id though, by never giving any money to charity, or buying his daughter, Pearl, any gifts on her birthday.
Through the feminist lens you notice how most of the main characters are males, and Sandy gets little recognition. Sandy is the smartest one out of all of Bikini Bottom, but no one gives her notice. She’s shown as moody, like guys typically think girls are, and when she doesn’t wear her underwater suit she just has a swimsuit on, which should draw guys attention to her although she still doesn’t get much notice. Pearl is a very girly girl, who is all about materialistic things, which I find very stereotypical. She loves pink, and make up, and clothes, and continually worries about her status with her friends. It’s a typical idea that girl’s in high school are like that.
Speiser7
I decided to analyze Eminem's song "White America". When viewed under a Marxist lens, it talks about the social flaws in America today. America gives immigrants the thought that America is an even chance for Capitalistic ventures, which is not always the case. Eminem also contradicts in the song that America is not always fair to everyone. If looked at under a Freudian lens it could be stated that he wrote this song because his childhood was very hard for him. He lived with his mother, his dad leaving when he was very young, having to move around a lot he did not make many friends. In "White America" Eminem is expressing that America and life in general was not good to him in the past. Then at the end he says "I'm just playing America, you know I love you", you could look at this and think that since he "made it big", he has adapted to America's way of life after all those years and has taking advantage of America’s Capitalism. Eminem is going against the social normality of America by writing this song and using his right to Freedom of Speech. He got highly ridiculed for this song.
MPeterson Pd.2
I chose to analyze my favorite show every Grays Anatomy. Starting with the Marxist Lens, there are a few social classes in the show. As you watch you would see the doctors or surgeons as more of the rich class with more money than most people. Also the doctors or surgeons have more power than everyone else in the show. the nurses as the middle who get paid a little less then the surgeons or doctors do and are one step down in power. The patients as both the middle or the poor class. The patients are below both the surgeons or doctors and nurses who can be somewhat rich or poor.
For the Feminist Lens men do over power in some scenes because you would see most men doing all the hard work or the surgery or even run the hospital for that matter. The women would do all the easy work like as the nurse does by checking up on the patients. But women are surgeons in the show. For example Doctor Bailey is the one in charge of scheduling, making sure everyone is in the right spot for their job. Doctor Bailey is basically above everyone else but the chief.
For the Freudian Lens everyone in the hospital are fulfilling their dreams and goal by making sure the patients survive from either accidents or even surgery. If they do not fulfill; they get the sense of guilt like they could have saved them if only they would of done something else. They also envy each other because one person might get more surgery than one another. They feel like one is better and they themselves should be the ones performing the surgery. Brannan 7
For my blog I decided to analyze my Buckle jeans! It is very easy to look at my jeans through the three different lenses. The first lens I'll start with is the marxist lens. The marxist lens would say that my jeans are expensive, which means money. Also it could be considered then that they cost so much that it could classify them as in the upper class of jeans. Also saying that people who wear these types of jeans could also be classified in the upper class, since they cost so much it shows they have money. Also when you do see Buckle jeans, they are worn by the more "popular" people. This could play into the Freudian Lens, which I will talk about later in this paragraph, about people subconciously buying these types of jeans because they believe if they wear them, they will to be considered "popular". I can also classify them under the feminist lens. My jeans that i'm wearing now, have big stitching and a LOT of sparkles/jewels on them. This definatly plays a gender as a female because i've NEVER seen a guy with be-dazzeled jeans. I also will admit I tend to stereotype people who where these types of jeans as a little rude. Almost thinking they're better because they know that their jeans are expensive. As for the last lens, the Freudian Lens, I believe it has alot to do with symbols. These jeans are a symbol of money. Also dealing with your ego, if you wear the jeans you might feel cooler, because you know they cost alot. It could also play into your subconcious. Maybe since their is so much design on the back, I subconciously want people looking at my butt? I never really looked into why I wear these jeans, I like them and I think they look nice, maybe my subconcious thinks otherwise.
Seydel 7
The “exhibit” I am choosing to analyze is the small fish tank and fish in the corner of our living room. The whole reason behind getting the fish tank was so we had a place for the three gold fish we won at the fair. When looking through the Freudian lens we can see that we were fulfilling our ID’s by playing to win the fish. It has since continued to be an ID fulfiller for my father. My mom hates the fish tank because it takes up room and doesn’t go with her living room while my father insist that it stays because the fish add to the character of our house. While viewing the fish tank through this lens you also can see that the fish inside are in some ways fulfilling their ID’s as well. Frank the biggest fish in the tank will eat everything she sees therefore we limit the number of pellets of food she is given during the day. When we put other fish in the tank for Frank to eat she fulfills her ID by eating them all at once when she could make them last longer by only eating few at a time. Scum, the algae eater, however follows his superego by not cleaning the whole tank in one day. He takes his time because he knows that he will be hungry later and will want the rest of the algae that he didn’t clean before. Our tank also has rocks that are lying on the bottom to give the tank more of a river like environment. Frank is showing that she has a sexual drive by trying to make the rocks into a nest for her eggs. She does so by collecting a few rocks in her mouth then she puts them up against the glass and so there is a bigger pile in one corner of the tank than any of the other corners. Although she has nobody to mate with she still has sexual drive because all animals are born with the knowledge they need to reproduce.
The small tank can also be view and analyzed through the Marxist lens. We can see the power function through Frank. Frank is the biggest fish in the tank, she also happens to be the strongest therefore the other fish fear her. Scum shows that he knows he is not in control by constantly hiding under the plastic skull that lies along the bottom of the tank. When Scum does build up the courage to adventure out on the side of the glass to clean Frank shows that she is the boss by running herself into Scum in order to prove she is stronger and in charge. At first it was not this way however because Scum was in the tank first and had all the power when Frank first arrived. Much like we have to climb the social ladder to be seen as the higher power or to be respected more Frank had to gain respect from Scum first before she was the dominating force in the tank. Much like social classes of America the different classes in the tank clash. Frank happens to be very greedy in the fact she only wants Scum in the skull at the bottom and if Scum comes out then Frank is there to let him know that he is not welcome. In some ways we can see that Frank maybe doesn’t even want Scum there so she forces Scum to hide or be invisible. This shows Frank is greedy and wants there to be only one class, which happens to be his class of higher more powerful fish, and if this can’t happen the there shouldn’t be any other fish.
The feminist lens can also be seen when analyzing the tank. We see the tank is very feminist because the gender roles are very much reversed. Frank is a girl and is very much in control of what goes on. She is strong, powerful, in control and dominating which we see as more of a males job. Scum is stuck doing all the cleaning in the tank and happens to be the male, which would be more of a female’s job.
Beldin 1
I have chosen to analyze vehicles. Vehicles come in all sorts of sizes, shapes, colors, etc. Like cars, people are the same way; we come in different shapes and sizes, colors and appearances. Certain people desire certain cars, trucks, or motorcycles that suit their specific interests or personalities. The thing is though, is that not everyone can be fortunate enough to get what we want. Some people are less fortunate than others. They get the crappy, banged-up, old-timer cars; and the sad thing is that this can have a negative effect on the way other people view that person. Vehicles nowadays are structured through the way that our society as a whole wants these vehicles to look and feel and on how far we have progressed with our technology. It’s a Marxist view, the more technology we have and the smarter we get, the more features we need in and on our cars to give us that sense of security and power. For example, if someone you know owns a brand new 2011 Dodge Charger, you’ll say something like, “Wow, that’s a really nice new car”, or “The only reason he got that is because his parents bought it for him/her, they don’t know how to earn it themselves”. In this case, if you’re the person with the Charger, you probably bought it because it shows a sign of power and masculinity, whether it’s just because it fits your style and personality or if it is really a way of hiding you’re insecurity. For some, it is a way to say, “Hey, this is the car I got because I’ve always been fascinated with their craftsmanship and I’m now under the circumstances to get the car of my dreams”. It can also be a way to say, “Hey, I chose this car to purchase because in the inside, I really don’t feel that great about myself; I don’t like the way I look and I wish I could change who I was...”. This can show a Freudian lens because cars represent a certain symbol in your life, it can either bring out that superego of yours or it can show that disgusting id that we all have hiding inside, or even just a normal ego in between. Everyone wants a certain sense of power and masculinity, even for women. Some are more conservative than others, and so go all out and buy that 2011 BMW, or that big Hummer H2. Women are no different than men and should be view the same way. How can women be seen more attractive or more popular? Are there certain roles that just women should uphold? Women do the same as men, they want to feel more important, and they want that extra attention. Buying a new, nice car is one way that they can express themselves to others in a more dramatic way.
Kulzer-2
I decided to analyze gaiaonline, an online game thats just like facebook, but you make an avatar and can meet/talk to other ppl. Although im sure not a lot of people have heard of this game, there still is a lot of things you can analyze from here. While viewing this from the Marxist lens, you can see the different social classes entirely from how people act towards others and how they are dressed; the more fancier the outfit the more they criticize the lower class if they try to talk to them. Some may dress as like fairies or demons, some dress as foxes or wolves, etc. Some are in clans constantly going against other clans and for what just because they hate that one kind of animal? It dont seem a lot of sense to me but thats how it goes by sometimes.
When you view this in the Freudian lens, some things pop out right away. For example, "gaia" when you say "gaiaonline" you can make a mistake and say "gayonline" instead; you could assume that this game sounds gay right? As a matter of fact its quite an addicting game once you start to play it more, but most people dont have the time for that like most people do. Many times you may not know how or what these other people do, they maybe very oppressed to people and you will never know until you talk to them. Going back to talking about how people dress, some are very sexist just by the way they talk towards you or even ones who talk about denial, guilt or even envy in their lives.
There is a whole lot to other things in this game, but if you see it through how i do, you can say its pretty much like talking to everyone in real life but its on a game.
Hillman Pd.1
I decided to analyze the Brandon Valley High School parking lot or cars in general. While using the three lenses I can examine differently. Through the Marxist lens there is plenty involved with the money and social class aspect. As you walk through our parking lot you see a variety of vehicles. Some of the students’ cars are more expensive than others. Students with nicer cars are considered part of the upper class or maybe even the middle class. Other students have cars with not so nice cars that are either old, rusted, worn down or barely run. They are part of the lower class. Most of the kids at the higher end of the social ladder like to add different types of things to their cars like subs, a nice paintjob, tires or engines. This satisfies the id of the students. They do this to get attention and be a part of the rest. It is a form of conformity also. They put so much work into there cars to impress their former classmates and ones of the opposite sex. Now looking through the feminist lens you can tell what vehicle belongs to what gender. Females usually drive little, cute cars. On the inside of their cars they can be clean and have different kinds of accessories hanging from the rearview mirror or on the dashboard. Males tend to drive big, loud trucks or fancy cars. Boys cars are typically a mess and have their own interests inside. These stereotypical statements show how the gender roles are always followed. Boys are looked upon as tough with the trucks. If the have cars they just are not seen as tough. The same goes for girls; they are generally seen in cars and if they happen to have a truck they may be seen differently. This blog task shows how you can analyze anything with the three lenses. Almost everything involves gender roles, money and social classes and our id and superego.
Hovde 2
I chose to analyze my bedroom. I can see something through every lens throughout my room. For example, I still have a blanket I received from my grandma when I was two. My grandma made my blanket by hand and embroidered my name on the corner. This is one of my most prized possessions and I cherished it even more after she died. Holding on to this blanket may show that I am in denial about growing up. When looking at my blanket through a feminist lens, it's obvious that 18 year old boys aren't suppose to hold onto childish things. The male gender expectations tell men to be strong and to almost lack feelings.
When you look around my room, you also see a lot of New York Yankee memorabilia. The Yankees are one of the richest and most successful teams in sports. The Yankees are considered upper class, while a team like the Minnesota Twins are thought of as a proletariat team. This may be me subconsciously hoping that I will become successful and rich like the Yankees. This is a mislead view, because we all know that money cannot buy happiness.
I also have a Bob Marley lava lamp on my desk. Bob was a great artist, but is also known for smoking weed. Today's society makes being a stoner seem cool. Although I've never smoked before, maybe this is me trying to be cool by having a marijuana symbol in my room.
My room also has a lot of trophies and medals on display. Society embraces the athletic type, while intellectuals are pushed aside. I do have some academic awards also, but I like to emphasize and showcase my athletic awards over my academic. I definitely consider myself better at school rather than sports; I subconsciously show off my sports awards to gain acceptance.
The stuff in my room isn't all positive though. I have a television and a PS2 in my room. Sometimes I like to satisfy my Id by playing video games, rather than studying. This may be holding me back from my achieving at my full potential, but I think I've found a good balance. My room does a good job of expressing who I really am, but now that I've analyzed it I have learned a little bit about myself.
Klumpp 2
I decided to analyze soccer, both girls and boys. When analyzing through the feminist lens, with women’s soccer, most people would just say whatever to because it isn’t as popular as men’s soccer. And when someone wants to watch women’s soccer, the other people mostly make fun of them because they think girls aren’t as good at any sport. But when people want to watch men’s soccer they are all for it. But when the world cup came this year and the women got to finals against Japan, everyone wanted to watch, and in the men’s world cup people still watched but not as much.
In the past, men have seen women, when playing sports, as weak. Men looked and think that women should just be doing something else that suits them, and not do something that suits them. But now men see women as strong and independent, and have put women higher then they used to be. One woman who is respected is Mia Hamm. She played on the USA women’s soccer team. She has inspired many women to excel in what they do no matter what is that they do, whether it be sports or a job. As a woman she was the best-known player. Also, she was the youngest member to join the team at the age of 15. In 1999 she helped with the victory of the women’s world cup. Mia Hamm has helped show that women aren’t only for cooking, good, looks or stereotypes, they are good for many things that back then men didn’t think women could do. I would hope that men see women in a respectful manner when playing sports, because they would never have thought that the US women’s soccer team would have gotten to the finals when the men only got 7th place.
MNelson1
For my blog i decided to do the wrestling room. Looking at the wrestling room during a practice it is easy to analyze. You have a rank or class developed with the varsity and junior varsity. You also have people who serve their id and people who serve their superego by either being really lazy in practice or working really hard. Normally the ones who work harder in practice will be better which goes back to the Marxist lens. Now on the Feminist lens you see the stats and managers who are most of the times girls. Their job is to write down the stats and clean up after the blood mess and clean the mats after we are done which is demeaning to them and goes back to their job being to clean up after men. Thats how you can analyze a wrestling room with the lenses. Wible5
For my blog task I chose to analyze the United States government. The government is a very easy thing to critically analyze for several reasons; the first and most obvious is that government is all about power. When using a Marxist lens and you ask yourself two things; one being how does power play a role, and two how does a class play into the exhibit. If you look at the government you can start right at the top what kind of person wants the responsibility of millions of people under them, I think someone who deliberately puts themselves into that scenario is either power hungry or in a time of crisis. You can also look at what type of person generally serves in the government. Generally you don’t think of some immigrant from Africa or Europe that lives in the ghetto as the next leader of our generation, we think of someone who had parents that could buy their way into Harvard or Yale. Not only does this show our limited views on what makes someone fit to run us it shows our oppression of immigrants because one must be born in the United States to become the President anyway, to me it basically says that as a country we would rather have Snookie as President then someone from a foreign country. Looking at the government from a feminist point of view the government is extremely sexist. For example, we can look at how Hilary Clinton is portrayed in the media, she probably was a better candidate then Obama, but we chose to chose to vote someone in largely because of race, rather than looking at morals and what we stand to gain as a country from who we elect. Not only has their not been a female President if you look into the Senate and House of Representatives it is largely male. Lastly from a Freudian lens we can see how past Presidents and politician server their ids and if they listen to their ego. Looking at many politicians today we can see how they are all out to serve their ids albeit in a more civilized fashion; to use and infamous politician we can look at Bill Clinton, his affair was his failure to control his id, he would have been perfectly fine without it but he could not control himself and it lost him his presidency. We can also analyze other politician that get arrested for embezzlement or leaking information they only do this because of their own greed and because their only concern is to better their life even if it is at the expense of their citizens.
Zody 1
I chose to analyze our annual trip to my relatives lake cabin in Alexandria, MN. My family has been taking this trip since before I was born; it’s been my favorite place ever since I was little. I think that’s because my relatives Dwayne and Judy are very wealthy and have a gorgeous home with a variety of things to do there. I can use my Marxist lens to see why I enjoy going there. I think a part of it is I get a taste of how the “other half” lives and how money played a part in how their life turned out. They possess many things I wish I had and a dream house I desire when I’m older. Although they are wealthy, they are not rude or hubris like one might think. They too have raised their kids to appreciate money and not abuse it, which I think is important in our world today, filled with greed and carelessness. Using my Freudian lens is poignant when I think about why I enjoy being at their home so much. Maybe because it’s always been a place to fully enjoy the moment and leave worries behind. Our family would try our best not fight with each other and be civilized in someone else’s home. That was a big reason why I loved going; everyone was happy and not stressed or busy like usual. Still going up their today reminds me of being a child again, having no worries and being carefree. As humans, we all try to achieve that narcissistic bliss we once had; this is mine. I can even use the Freudian lens when observing the roles of everyone during the trip. The women mostly would do their stereotypical role of cooking, cleaning, and taking care of the children. The men would help too by grilling, which seems more of a manly duty, and they would go fishing and mess with the four wheelers. Both genders are capable of the same things, although the roles they execute are just different because that’s how society has taught us. Using the three lenses to deconstruct our vacation was poignant and simple when I thought about it and used what we learned through the “Critical Lenses 101” packet. -Baumann 7
While trying to think of something to analyze for this blog, I was listening to my iPod. Noticing other students analyzed songs; I thought how about the device its self? Then I realized the lenses could be used very easily. Starting with the Marxist lens, you can notice that money and social classes can be applied to a device that is used to play music. There are so many kinds: cheap, expensive, simple, complex, big, small, etc. If you have money and want to show that you are on the top of the social ladder, you would buy the most expensive and complex device. The more expensive popular brand would also be your choice even though it has the same features as a similar device half the price, just to show you have money on purpose or at least a subconscious level. Using the Feminist lens, I examined the color of my iPod- black and silver. This color scheme could be more attractive to men, but those colors could also be considered non gender specific. Some devices are offered in many different colors making it more attractive to potential buyers or genders. You can also get protective cases for them. For example: pink case for females and a black case with tire tracks on if for males. The Freudian lens can be applied by looking at the Id and Superego factors. The songs that you put on the device can either influence your Id or your Superego. Listening to songs that involve violence, drugs or anything of that nature, will most likely encourage you to listen to your Id. The device its self can influence your choice of what to listen to. If you use it to avoid your homework (sometimes I find myself doing this) you are listening to your Id. If you listen to your superego, you would possibly be listening to music that may help you concentrate and be more productive or even using it for homework.
-Grogan 5
It took me a long time to figure out what I was going to write about, if I was too obvious with my topic I would be the third or fourth person to analyze that topic but if I analyzed something to obscure no one would know what I’m talking about but then it hit me a class room. A classroom full of students is full of examples of Marxist, Feminist, and Freudian lenses. Let’s start off with the Marxist lenses, it’s clear from the second you walk in the room which students are swimming in there parents money and which are barely making the rent. There are the kids who have more name brands and logos on them then a billboard but then there are the students in the clothes that just look cheap. It’s also good to note that you don’t often see the two groups mixing. The power (popularity) of the student is also painfully clear. If you look you can see who is popular by the way they are sitting, is the student sitting up straight and confident like they are the smartest and best person in the room, are they leaning back in there chair like they are too cool for school and just allowing there id to run wild, or are they trying to sink into their chair and hide hoping they won’t get noticed. Now onto feminist you can see which students are better off depending on the teacher. If you go to a let’s say a cooking class as a boy you will be the first one blamed for any mistake often subjugated like a second class citizen but if you a girl in a cooking class you can do no wrong and the polar opposite applies for let’s say a shop class. Now let’s move on to Freudian. You can tell which students are super ego run and which are id driven. The ones who are id driven just seek out narcissistic bliss by doing as little work as possible and talking to other students whenever they can while there are students run completely by their superego that will work the whole fifty minutes of the class then go spend hours at home doing homework. So to finish there are many ways you can analize what looks to be a random gathering of teenagers
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Sivertson P5
I chose to do my analyzing on one of my favorite TV shows, and that is Jersey Shore. A lot of people say that only girls should watch it and it is a bunch of idiots partying. Isn't the point of watching something is to be entertained by this? For the first lens I would like to use the Freudian Theory. The biggest example I have of this is when Mike “the situation” which is always trying to start drama in the house, knocks himself unconscious. Mike and Ronny were about to get into a physical altercation over Ron and Sammi's relationship and Mike tried to scare Ron by running his head through the wall which he thought was sheet rock, which it turned out it was a solid cement wall. Clearly Mike let his id control him when he made this unwise choice. Next I would like to point a couple of points from the feminist lens. The first major one is the guy's motto- GTL, which means gym, tan, and laundry, now I believe this against the norm because how many guys tan and do their own laundry? Also the guys cook 'Sunday dinner' which cooking is what the females are expected to do. Another thing is that most of the time when they go out to the clubs, Snooki and Deena get so drunk that they can't even walk straight and Jenny and Sammi turn into their mothers and make sure they don't get puke in their hair which is expected of them being the females. For the Marxist lens I will talk about what they do with the money they “earn”. After doing some research I found out that these reality stars make $100,000 a episode! Thats not even to mention how much they make for other promotional things like commercials that most of them participate in. This is a huge raise from making $30,000 a episode for season 3. Their whole life is waking up after noon, drinking all day, and then partying until the very early hours in the morning. I would like to know when these people will wake up and say to themselves “I need to grow up, dang”.
For this blog task I would like to look deeper into people and there cars. I will be using the three lenses; Marxist, Freudian, and Feminist. When looking through a Marxist lens you can see the many social classes involved. When you see a rusty, beaten down vehicle you almost always assume it belongs to a poor member of society. When you see a newer suv, car, or truck you can assume it belongs to someone of the middle class. Also when you see a expensive vehicle like a BMW or a jacked up truck you automatically assume the owner is a member of the upper class. Not all of these are true but very stereotypical.
Looking through a Freudian lens you could ask why people buy expensive cars and why they put accessories into there vehicles. You could say these people do this to get attention. But in my opinion adding big tires and lifts are more of a functional piece of the car. I live out in the country and if I drove a car I wouldn't be able to travel my roads in the winter. But with those features I am able to travel my roads with ease. And for some working on there cars and adding more powerful engines and loud exhaust is a hobby. Some people get a sense of pride in saying they built that vehicle.
When looking through a Feminist lens you are able to see what gender is driving a car. Women are more acceptable being seen in a cute small car. If they were seen in a truck they would be seen as a women with more manly aspects. Also you can assume a male is driving a truck or a fast car. If they were seen in a small cutesy car, they would be looked down upon by the others of the male gender.
Thanks to the lenses and Mr. C for teaching me how to use lenses. I can now see deeper into almost everything I see.
Brown 2
On the football field there are many different ways you can interpret the players. Through a Marxist lens, you can pick apart the teams and specify certain players and people into a particular group. On offense the quarterback is the top dog. He is the one who controls the whole offense and makes sure everything is running smoothly. He tells the linemen which way to block and if they should run block or pass block. Then you have the big boys up front. I feel that most of them are full of envy towards the quarterback. All they do is get bossed around by other players and do what they are told. The linemen are the ones who do the most work without getting any recognition. Next you have the wide receivers and running backs. Although they get bossed around just like the linemen, they are the ones on the field scoring most of the points and make the acrobatic moves. If you look at the offense through a Marxist lens, then you realize that in the social class structure the quarterback is the king, the receivers and backs are the soldiers, and the linemen are the peasants.
On the other side of the ball you have the defense. The linemen on this side of the ball are almost the exact same as the other side; they do the dirty work without getting credit. This makes them the peasants as well. Instead of having receivers and running backs, the defense has safeties and cornerbacks who defend the acrobatic and agile opponents. These men are also like soldiers who will attack their opponents just like the receivers and backs. Instead of having a quarterback on defense, they have three or four of them. They are called linebackers. They are called this because they are behind the linemen and are expected to back them up. The middle linebacker is the “quarterback” of the defense. He tells the team what the play is and who is blitzing which gap. The middle linebacker is the King of the defense.
In football there are two different ways to interpret money. For the defense, money is the ball. The defense is supposed to be filled with bloodthirsty men who want the football more than anything in the world. They should drool at the thought of football. For the offense, money is the touchdown. They try and get there to put points on the board. The game of football is almost like a battle in war. The offense possesses the key to the game, which the defense wants. Each side has their leader, their soldiers and their men protecting the king. If you view a football game through a Marxist lens, you might be able to find a battle brewing.
McClanahan 1
For this blog task, I have chosen to write about Charlie Sheen and his new replacement, Ashton Kutcher. As the Freudian lens shows, Charlie Sheen is not only controlled, but dominated by his id in real life and in the show Two and a Half Men. Sheen has completely suppressed his superego. Therefore a guilt free conscience would be difficult to have. One other very important detail shown in the show is his place on the social ladder. The Marxist lens puts Charlie Sheen at the top of the social ladder. He has a Malibu beach house and more money than he knows what to do with. A very nice car is located in his garage and anything he wants, he gets. More aspects of the Freudian lens reveal how libido influenced many of Sheen’s actions and choices within the show. He would be seen drinking, flirting, partying, and having a seemingly never ending variety of girls over to his house. All of these actions are to satisfy the id. Every episode contains multiple ways in which Sheen is listening to his id. When Ashton Kutcher takes over the show, he is also placed at the top of the social ladder (possibly higher than Sheen). It will be very interesting to see if Kutcher chooses to listen to his id or his superego. Both men are set up in a similar position. If Kutcher chooses id, the show will be very similar to before. The show will only change if Kutcher finds the self discipline to suppress his id and listen to his superego. Characters representing the id make a much more interesting television show than morally sound characters. This can be proven by looking at the success of Two and a Half Men, Jersey Shore, and most reality type shows. Don’t get me wrong it is quite a good show, but in my opinion it is not a good example of how people should live their lives.
Murren 1
Well after reading what I had to write about for this blog, I chose to write about golf since that is what I spend most of my time playing. Well looking at golf through a Marxist lens its shows that golf is a very powerful sport. Golf is a very expensive sport so in order to play golf you must have money to buy equipment, get lessons, and to play. Also if you have more money, you are probably going to be a better golfer because you can pay for everything. If you looked at golf through a Feminist lens than you would probably notice that men are more superior to women. When you go to a golf course and play, you probably won’t see as many women as you will men. If you watch golf on TV, you would notice that most of the PGA Tour tournaments are televised and on the LPGA Tour only the majors or the most important tournaments are televised. When you look at golf through a Freudian lens, you would notice that most golfers have a very big ID. Most golfers think they are better than ever body else because most of them have lots of money and get to show it off by playing golf. This would include them showing off their golf carts, their clubs, smoking cigars, and playing for lots of money. Now before I thought of this topic to write about I really didn’t look through these lenses and study golf. After looking at it I finally realized how arrogant and self centered some golfers are. There are also some golfers like high school golfers that play golf that actually care about their score and don’t show off their wealth. This paragraph shows how you look at golf through the various critical lenses.
Thorson 5
An exhibit that I chose to analyze is the movie Titanic. I have watched this movie several times and it is one of my favorite movies, but I have never actually analyzed it. After analyzing it for this blog, though, I look at it in a whole new perspective. The first lens that I believe was the most obvious is the Marxist lens. While boarding the ship for the first time and being on the ship during the movie I could see all the different social classes clearly. The wealthy were arriving “fashionably late” and came with several luggages. They were also only one of many to have a car to take them to the ship. Once on the ship they are placed in the most fancy rooms with huge closets, above water, while the lower class, poor people were below water all sharing a tiny room with several bunk beds. It was hard for the poor to even get onto the ship. At the beginning of the movie it shows Jack and some of his friends gambling for a ticket to America. This shows how hard it was for them to have that privilege. Another scene that shows the wealthy had more power was when the ship was sinking. As they got down all the life boats they only allowed all the richer people to go first. Only after all of them were gone did they have the next class go. That class would be the women and children of the lower class. This shows who had more power and control in that time period. This also leads into the Feminist lens. Women and children were more important than men. The men were supposed to act as the stronger person in the family and protect them, so allowed the women and children to go first. Very few lower class men actually survived the sink, because they had to be last to board the life boats and there were none left. Another example of the Feminist lens is when Rose is controlled by Cal. Rose is a very powerful woman who is forced to marry Cal. Cal is controlling her and making her life miserable even if he doesn’t know it. Since Rose has no control she goes along with it until she meets Jack. At first she doesn’t like the idea of him being poor but as she spends more time with him, sees he is no different than anybody besides his social class. She falls for him and likes the lower class better because it isn’t as restricted as when she was living the wealthy lifestyle. Also, since she had that experience in the upper class it seems that she controls Jack more than Jack controls her. This is opposite of how it was with her relationship with Cal and in this era. These are just a couple of scenes and examples of how the Marxist and Feminist lens are shown in the movie Titanic.
Benz7
For my exhibit I chose to analyze the Brandon Valley football team. If you look at it through the Marxist lens you will see that “moving up on the ladder” is something everyone on the team tries to do. You start on the scout team where you are just a scrub. This is where you are on the bottom of the totem pole. They do oppressive work for the team and do not get any recognition or praise from fans. From the scout team you then compete with guys to try to move up on the ladder and get onto the second team. Once you are there you still try to beat other guys out for playing time and even the starting position. You keep wanting to climb up the ladder. You can also look at our football team through the Feminist lens. We have two managers who are girls and their job on the team is to take care of us boy players. They get water for us whenever we ask for it and even clean up after us once in awhile. These are stereotypical roles of a girl. All of our football coaches are also men which is supposedly the gender role for football coaches. There are also no girls on the football team even though there are many who enjoy the sport. Society has told them that it is not “natural” for them to play football and that is only what boys do. You can also look at our team through the Freudian lens. If you are a substitute for somebody playing, on the surface you look like you want them to do well so they can help the team. Subconsciously or maybe even consciously you are envious of them. You desperately want them to mess up make a mistake or possibly even get hurt. By them making a mistake or getting hurt it means you will have a chance to take there spot and play.
Petersen 7
I am choosing to analyze hockey. Starting with the Marxist Lens, money does matter in hockey. You have to be able to buy all of the gear, and you also have to be able to pay for gas, and hotel rooms when you travel, along with food to eat. As an example of interpellation, a few years ago, towards the end of the season, our coach decided to switch up the lines, which nobody wanted to do. He told us that if we did this, we might have a chance at coming back, and winning the game. He told us to do something we did not like, trying to make us believe something good might come out of it. Next for the Feminist Lens. In girls hockey, we are not allowed to check like the boys are, because they do not think we are as tough as them, but in all reality we have the same amount of padding so I think they are very feminist. We can also subjugate the puck just as good as they can. They are also feminist because we always come after the guys, at board meetings, or at practice, we get the late times, which might not be all that bad because we can get a few extra minutes of skating in. At hockey camps, the coaches will say “guys” and they will not say “gals” at all. They just assume that hockey is only for guys. And I really think it is feminist when people say, “Oh, you play hockey? I did not know girls could play hockey.” Last is the Freudian Lens. I think that if your parents, or someone in your family grew up playing hockey, you will most likely play it, if it is something you enjoy. Some people might use their Id in playing hockey when they think they did something good, but it did not really help the team out, but they are still looking for a sign that they did something good from the coaches or a player. A player might use their superego when they do something good, but they know they could make it even better by asking someone to give them suggestions. It is when they are aware of what they did. Hopefully now you can analyze hockey better through the three lens.
Drexler 5
For this assignment, I decided to examine the school lunchroom using the feminist and the marxist lenses. At the beginning of the lunch period, Dr. Talcott excuses the students by grade, then by gender. He excuses the juniors and seniors first, implying that the juniors and seniors are better than the sophomore and freshman classes. Using the Marxist lens, I realized that this is he is implying that the upper-classmen have more power and importance than the lower-classmen. Dr. Talcott also excuses the women of classes first. Using the feminist lens, you can see that he is showing favoritism toward the women by discriminating against the men. Using the Marxist lens again, you can definitely see the different social groups or “cliques” in the school. The popular kids are always seen in large groups of friends and are more outgoing, while the less popular kids are either in smaller groups or are sitting alone at their table.
Ekeren, 5
For my blog assignment I decided to analyze the song “The Impossible” by Joe Nichols. You could analyze this song with two of the three critical lenses. With the Marxist lense you could see that the obstacles in the peoples way would be things that are “impossible.” The song tells us not to underestimate it because you never know when something you think is impossible will actually be a reachable goal. An example of this is when the kid in the song stood up at graduation to walk across the stage when everyone said he would never walk again, he got up and did something no one thought he could and the reason he could do it is because he didn’t underestimate his power of being able to recover from his accident and walk again. Under this lense you could also say that the writer of this song sympathizes with people who do things that seem impossible or things happen that people think are impossible, in part of this song it says “unsinkable ships sink”, I think this is a reference to the titanic and how everyone said it was the unsinkable ship when in the end when it hit the iceberg it ended up sinking, this shows that even when you guarantee something wont happen there is still a big chance that it will happen because you never know for sure. You can also analyze this song under the Feminist lense when you think about how its all guys who he says do the “impossible” things, why can’t there be any women who do amazing things? You could also see that when he talked about his dad he put him in the role of being tough and strong and able to lift him up with one arm and also able to scare away the monsters, why couldn’t a woman do this? If he had just a mom would he think the same way about men being the tough ones or would he see that women can do both roles at once. There is a part I liked though that kind of showed the soft side of his dad when he cried over the grandpa dying, that showed that men can break gender stereotypes and break down and don’t always have to be strong all the time. Overall I think this was a good moral song and is good at breaking some gender stereotypes.
Corliss 7
For the task to analyze an “exhibit” through the three critical lenses, I chose to analyze a championship ring. Ones similar to what football players would receive after winning the super bowl or a state-championship. A feminist critic would find it very interesting how men hate to be gay, but love to wear extremely flashy jewelry, particularly on their hands. First of all, it looks womanly with the bulky diamonds and jewels. Second of all, when did men find it okay to wear enormous rings with many designs on them? Men are not supposed to have soft, smooth, delicate hands on the contrary of rough, dirty, and hard working hands. These men, although, love to wear these rings. For what reason some may ask? To look masculine and important. From there is where the Marxist critic can rave on about why it is very masculine to wear these. Of course they would say that the ring show power, athleticism, money, and a higher social class. Tom Brady would be a perfect example of a man that demonstrates these rings to the fullest. He has not one, not two, but three super bowl rings that he loves to flaunt where ever he goes. But while wearing these rings, he isn’t being called gay or any other stereotypes. He is admired but males, young and old, all of the country. He has the best of all worlds. Brady is good looking, has a super hot wife, the best Quarterback in the NFL, popular, and super wealthy. Nobody cares about that fact that he has long hair and wears girly looking rings on a daily basis. That is what the feminist critics hate about him and his rings.
The Freudian lens is also used to look at these rings. Men with these rings have won major competitions in whatever sport they’re in. This boosts their ego to no boundary and makes their id go absolutely crazy. Men all of a sudden think they are better than everyone and show it completely when they do something successful. This also fills every little boy’s dreams of having a massive ring from achieving something they looked up to their entire lives. When they reach this, it’s like nothing in the world can touch them.
Cushing 5
I choose to analyze my favorite childhood show Dragon Ball Z. It’s a very action pact show which is basically about super human people fighting super human aliens who are trying to destroy the earth or universe. In this show you can easily used both the Feminist and Marxist lens. When using the Feminist lens, it shows that the women in the show are inferior to the men, because of the little strength they have. In the show there are three main women characters and two of them have no super powers or strength at all, while one of them has only a little strength and power. Even though there is one female character in the show that does have more strength than the average human, she still gets tossed around by all the evil villains and it’s always the guys who have to come save the day. It also shows in a lot of the episodes that the woman are in that they are always doing the work like taking care of the house, family, or making the food. Another thing that you can see with the Feminist lens is that a lot of the women in the show are very naggy and are always yelling at the men. This also brings on the Marxist lens as it shows whenever the women are yelling at the men that the men always seem to be afraid of them and obey them even though they are way beyond stronger than them. This is a way is showing that the women are more powerful than the men even though they have no powers at all. This show is mainly biased on who is stronger than the other. It doesn’t matter how smart you are or how witty you are in battle, as long as you have more strength than the other person you will surly win the battle and will gain so much more respect and honor from other people. There are three great examples of this. One is the character Hercules. He is supposedly the strongest man in the world, because he owns the belt for being champion of the World Fighting Tournament. Even though he’s whines about everything and is always so afraid to fight, he is the most respected and richest man in the world, because people still think he’s the strongest and will protect them. Another example is that the main character’s wife, Chi-Chi, is always trying to get her son to study so that he can get into a great collage and become a very rich and successful. Instead all he ever wants to do is to train hard and become stronger like his father and his father actually supports his training instead of him doing his homework. The last example is the main character himself. His name is Goku and all he ever does is train, eat, and fight. He has absolutely no education what so ever and yet all of his enemy’s fear him and all his friends want to be like him because he is so strong and powerful. In a way this show is saying to the young kids and teens who watch this is that no one will truly respect or fear you in society unless you are much stronger than them or have stronger weapons than they do and not because of your intelligent.
Stoltenburg 5
For my blog, I decided to do the analyzing on my racing. In my opinion you can look at racing with all three lenses, however, some make more sense than others. First lens I would like to look at is the Marxist lens, because if you think of the point of racing it’s all about the struggle for power, or in my case, whoever is the fastest. I’m constantly competing with my opponents and you can also see a difference in social classes. Races are usually divided up by size of motor and style of snowmobile, and as most would guess, the bigger the motor the more expensive the racing which kind of puts people in different wealth categories sort of speak. Now racing is mainly a male dominant sport with very few exceptions. This is where the feminist lens comes to play, showing the division between males and females. Males are typically shown to be more masculine motor-heads and stronger giving them an “advantage” in racing. This can be a little demeaning to women because they are seen as inferior to men in racing and much less of a threat because most are, as you could say, smarter, or less risky or gutsy. This leads to the last lens, Freudian lens, and it is a little more difficult to analyze. The best way I could analyze racing with this lens is to think of the reason a person would put them in harm’s way like this and what their thought is on it and what it does for them. Such as, for me, the adrenaline rush is very addicting and without it I feel almost bored all the time, which drives me to think that I need this in order to have fun and be happy whether or not I really do.
Powell2
I chose to analyze a cheer team with the three analytical lenses from our flexbook. Many people think of a cheerleader as a ditzy girl who doesn't know much. What does that make male cheerleaders? You can analyze this through the Feminist lens. In our high school it would be unacceptable if males cheered for our competitive cheer team. It's like the gender roles are switched if a male would like to enjoy cheerleading. Males don't get to subjugate--bring under complete control--the females. Females rule the cheer team. They get to be the stars for once without the male team taking all of the attention away. The social norms are different for males and females on a cheer team because if a male does it they are considered gay and if a female does it they are considered ditsy. Why does society stereotype gender so much?
Under the Freudian lens, one would notice that the flyer of the cheer team would be experiencing narcissistic bliss while they are being tossed in the air. They are experiencing a time when they are being carefree and not a worry in the world. It's sort of like a roller coaster when you get the thrill of butterflies in your stomach. Are there any sexual symbols? Well, the uniforms we wear are sometimes considered to be sexual. People say that the only reason we wear such short skirts is to attract the male attention while we are performing and that is a symbol of sexuality. In a cheer uniform we are modest in the upper section but less modest in the lower section. Does that mean we are always thinking sexually?
If we look through the Marxist lens, the seniors would be like the upper class in society, whereas, the middle class are the juniors and sophomores and the lower class are the freshmen. The whole cheer team is ruled by a coach who is like the president in our country. The coach tells the whole team the rules and enforces them and controls the team. The captain of the cheer team is an example of meritocracy. Meritocracy is leadership by able and talented persons. The captain has to be able to do every position on the team, she has to be the most experienced. She has to be the best. Every cheer team is competing to be the best of the best but what people don't get is how the roles of a cheer team are split and how the society interacts with each other. This is why we use the three lenses to analyze everything from day to day.
Sorensen 7
When looking at hunting many people just see egotistical men killing poor innocent animals but to me it is much more than that. To me it is a privilege to sit in a tree stand waiting for a deer to walk by while enjoying the great outdoors. Hunting symbolizes freedom because without freedom we would not be allowed to have the time to wait for a deer, walk a field for a pheasant, or call in a flock of geese. The animals that are hunted also symbolize freedom because the field is their home and they can decide when and where they want to come out. Hunting also resembles choice. If a hunter chooses to use a gun instead of a bow and arrow he may be satisfying his id more because with guns you don’t have to wait for a close shot. Another choice hunters have is which animal to hunt. Hunting smaller game, such as rabbits or squirrels, can be looked at in a feminist way. Rabbits or squirrels aren’t looked as masculine game to hunt because you don’t have the chance to take a trophy class animal. Hunting deer in highly populated areas also can be looked at as satisfying your superego. By taking a deer out of a highly populated area you make it less likely for a car vs. deer accident to happen, therefore saving someone else’s car or possibly even life. Hunting also symbolizes middle to upper class living. Hunting is an expensive sport because of all of the supplies you need to be able to make it successful. The meat from the animals symbolizes life because without food no one would be able to live. Looking at hunting in a feminist perspective also shows that there are stereotypes about hunters only being men. Men look at hunting as a time to get out of the house and away from their wives in some cases. The men should be encouraging women to get involved in hunting. There are many women hunters that can actually shoot better and kill bigger and better game than some men. Hunting can be looked at by all three lenses because like all sports there is a home team, the hunted, and an away team, the hunter.
Kuck 5
I chose to analyze the movie series Harry Potter. Using the Freudian lens, you could interpret Harry’s subconscious need for attention and to be liked along with compulsive need to be right. Even though Harry’s parents died, he still tries to impress them and do what he believes they would want him to do. Harry Tries to restore peace to the world like it was before Voldemort. Voldemort could be an example of Stalin, or Hitler, killing his competition and being ruthless for power; he is a perfect example of ID although some of the students in Hogwarts follow their super ego, some of the other students follow their ID for a narcissistic bliss or sense of approval. If looking through Marxist lens it is easy to see that the Weasley family is the one we’re supposed to love and appreciate. The Malfoy’s are the evil family that run on greed and only want to climb the social ladder to have more power. They oppress others for personal gain whereas the Weasley’s help others, and care about everybody rather than be purely selfish. Of the four classes in Hogwarts they each represent different economical classes: Slytherin is the rich class, people that have all the money, and use others for personal gain. Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw are the Middle classes that aren’t appreciated, but blend in together and just want to be appreciated, and raise their social standing. Gryffindor is the poorer class that we are supposed to love; they are the morally ‘good’. With the Feminist lens it is possible to discover how Hermione like Nala from The Lion King, is much smarter than her male friends but put off more because she is a female. In This series all of the main leaders are male, although females could do a better job. Females in this movie are oppressed and not treated the same as males.
Like Period 7
I chose to analyze the Song "Photograph" by Nickelback. In a way money is vocally implied but they never are really saying anything about money. The power system in this song at the begin is the criminal system, and towards the end its the wanting to go back in time to fix things. I think in away that there are social tensions, but in a different way then the regular middle and lower class being unhappy and the upper being really happy. Its that the kids in the past were getting in trouble and no one had a clue what to do with them but to get the police involved with it so I think that the social tension, with parents. That's for the Marxist Lens. Now for the Feminist Lens in this song they are talking about how nervous he is to kiss this girl, and I most other people think that more men do time for crimes then women. Other wise there isn't much for the Feminist Lens. Last Freudian the "boys" or "men" tried to act cool. The men always try re-achieve narcissistic bliss by that I that mean is they are going back to the photograph time and time again to remember what happened and remember what times were like to get a laugh and also to relive those days. So I think is what they are saying in this song is don't get to involved with your life to remember your past. That's your conscious saying to you but no one is listening to it.
Merkel.1
The exhibit that I choose to do was with computers. Over the years computers have been evolving rapidly, usually when you think of computers you believe that a man has invented it. There are a plethora of women that have done things to help make computers into the machines that you see before you today. The reasons why many people believe that men do all the work with computers is because; majority of the people who do the biggest things with computers are in fact men. A few examples are Bill Gates, Will Wright, as well as tons of other people. Everyone is guilty of thinking all computers relate mainly to men.
Computers can be viewed through a Marxist lens as well. When computers where first invented, it was a sign of you being rich; if you owned one. Not many people did own a computer back then. Now everyone has a computer whether it be a nice one with 16 gigs of ram or a crappy one with 2 megabits of ram. Most economics use computers to their advantage in the stock market. Still today you can tell how much money you have and what class you belong in depending on what kind of computer you have. Rich people usually have very nice computers that range from $2,000 - $5,000, where people who are poor usually have a crappy gateway computer that runs at 2 megabits and still use windows98 on it. I myself am even a victim of this I went out and spent over $800 on a laptop for the reason of a crappy computer. This could possibly be I wanted to seem better in the eyes of my peers or I could have just wanted to get a better computer so as I don’t get laughed at for having a very slow computer.
If you look through computers through the Freud lens is a little more difficult. Perhaps people made computers so that they can seem smarter or they are subconsciously jealous of computers for being so smart that they want to be able to control something with such power to make them more powerful. There are many ways obviously that you can see through this the most obvious thing though is it’s a material thing that someone wants so as to show off to their friends. When we see a powerful computer our id will tell us to go out and buy that so you can be the dominate person. Where our super ego will tell us, “no don’t go buy that you do not have the money to spend on something like this.” In the end you can see computers through many different lenses some more than others. Some will be clear to see through almost as if the lens makes everyone see 20/20 vision.
Ryan Carnes 8th
When Mr. Christensen told us we can analyze anything, I wanted to see if you really could analyze anything. So I decide to analyze a fish tank. When peering into any fish tank, what do you see? Obviously you will see fish, the rocks, the fake plastic plants, and maybe a funny decoration or two. But what I see is actually a whole new world; when I use a Marxist lens. This other world inside our own has their social classes; there are bottom feeders, mid-range feeders, and top level feeders. They all live in their classes, the top feeder gets the food first, and as much as they want. Then what is left falls down to the mid-ranged feeders and they eat what they can and last the remaining bits of food falls into the rocks on the bottom with the algae and waste. The bottom feeders get the leftovers and bits and pieces like the lower class people in our country. Also the bigger fish, the ones who win the environmental lotteries, get as much food as they can and leave the rest for the smaller fish. From a feminist lens view point, in my tank I only have males; to keep from having babies. Many people only keep males, or only keep females to keep them from letting nature take its course. Also with a Freudian lens you can also see that the physiological aspect of the fish, maybe they were born knowing to avoid the big fish, or stay in their sections of the tank. Though some fish are not violent, many will attack other fish for being in there “area” and will eventually kill them if they don’t stop. Maybe the fish will learn to not go there and will not get the right amount of food and eventually die.
Zangara 2
I chose to analyze all different types of houses. In the Marxist critic lens if a house is made of brick it’s considered to be more upper class, since brick is more expensive. If a house is made out of wood it’s considered to be a middle class house, it’s not expensive but it’s also not cheap. There is also a trailer house, a house that is moveable, which is cheap and considered low class. Someone can tell a lot about a person or family by the house they live in. Walking into the house you can tell if a male or female lives there. In the feminist lens a women is more likely to have color and flowers in the house. Men are most likely to have leather and neutral colors. A critic can analyze someone’s house in the Freudian lens. Someone is more proud to walk out of a house that is clean cut, big, and made out of brick. A family that has a nice house would most likely have hard working parents that have a superego rather than and id personality. These parents work hard for there money and worked for their dreams. While other people with more of and id personality didn’t care how they did in high school, college or over all their life. The children of the successful parents are treated way different than a child of a parent who is only getting by. They are treated as if they are spoiled and are lucky because there parents can afford nice things for them, and yes I do agree that those kids are lucky, but that doesn’t mean they should be judged any different. The same idea goes for the average children, they might not drive the nicest car but they do have one. Freudian lens is all about brains, every child should learn from their parents. If you want more you have to work hard for it, nothing is ever given in our society.
Grimmius 2
Why do people hate Tim Tebow? People’s emotions can range from complete hatred to undying love for one of sports greatest and most controversial figures but the question is why?
He's an excellent leader and a great teammate. He's tough and hard working. He's a proven winner and a devout Christian who isn’t afraid to speak up for what he believes. So why has this perfect role model become such a target of hate?
There’s no question that Tim Tebow is a polarizing personality. Florida fans adore him, because of the success he had when he played for the Gators. Many other football fans love him; because they respect his values and the way he plays the game. On the flip side, thousands of people hate and despise Tim Tebow. In fact, most of these people will say, “he sucks”. He sucks because he’s an All-American? He sucks because he’s won two national championships at Florida? He sucks because he won the Hiesman Trophy? No one can seem to back up that statement, but believe it or not some people just want to see him fail. Consciously or sub-consciously some people are sick of hearing about or seeing anything that Tebow does. That’s it. They’re tired of watching someone who constantly wins and never loses. To them he’s just too perfect. Many people are uncomfortable with the fact that Tebow is a devout Christian, they claim that he talks about God and his faith to make himself look good, not because he has a strong faith.
A Marxist critic would say Tim Tebow won the environmental and genetic lotteries. He’s athletic, intelligent, white, rich, good looking and at the top of the food chain. He gets paid millions of dollars to play a game that he loves.
When examining Tebow through a Freudian lens, I would say he listens to his superego over his ID more often then not. He is always doing things for the greater good of society instead of living in narcissistic bliss. You never hear about Tim Tebow getting into a bar fight at 2:30 in the morning or getting pulled over for drunken driving do you? Instead he is on mission trips to the Philippines and volunteering for charities. Yet people continue to doubt his abilities and question his true character. Are people just envious of Tim Tebow’s success? Is it human nature to want to see those that seem to have everything ultimately fail?
Klumpp 5
Why do people hate Tim Tebow? People’s emotions can range from complete hatred to undying love for one of sports greatest and most controversial figures but the question is why?
He's an excellent leader and a great teammate. He's tough and hard working. He's a proven winner and a devout Christian who isn’t afraid to speak up for what he believes. So why has this perfect role model become such a target of hate?
There’s no question that Tim Tebow is a polarizing personality. Florida fans adore him, because of the success he had when he played for the Gators. Many other football fans love him; because they respect his values and the way he plays the game. On the flip side, thousands of people hate and despise Tim Tebow. In fact, most of these people will say, “he sucks”. He sucks because he’s an All-American? He sucks because he’s won two national championships at Florida? He sucks because he won the Hiesman Trophy? No one can seem to back up that statement, but believe it or not some people just want to see him fail. Consciously or sub-consciously some people are sick of hearing about or seeing anything that Tebow does. That’s it. They’re tired of watching someone who constantly wins and never loses. To them he’s just too perfect. Many people are uncomfortable with the fact that Tebow is a devout Christian, they claim that he talks about God and his faith to make himself look good, not because he has a strong faith.
A Marxist critic would say Tim Tebow won the environmental and genetic lotteries. He’s athletic, intelligent, white, rich, good looking and at the top of the food chain. He gets paid millions of dollars to play a game that he loves.
When examining Tebow through a Freudian lens, I would say he listens to his superego over his ID more often then not. He is always doing things for the greater good of society instead of living in narcissistic bliss. You never hear about Tim Tebow getting into a bar fight at 2:30 in the morning or getting pulled over for drunken driving do you? Instead he is on mission trips to the Philippines and volunteering for charities. Yet people continue to doubt his abilities and question his true character. Are people just envious of Tim Tebow’s success? Is it human nature to want to see those that seem to have everything ultimately fail?
Klumpp 5
For my assignment, I'm going to analyze the school hallways. Specifically, the hallways between classes. I'm going to use the Marxist, and Freudian lenses primarily. When examining the hallways between class periods through a Marxist lens you notice several things about who's who on the social ladder. You have the people who are high on the ladder, (most likely winners of the genetic-lottery, and the environmental-lottery, or both) then you have the people who are lower on the ladder who maybe won either won just one or the other (lotteries), and you have the lowest people on the ladder who probably lost both lotteries. While there are exceptions, this is primarily how it goes. You can see that, for the most part, people stick to talking to the people who are in their social class, but there are exceptions to that too. None of this is just cut-and-dry. There are certainly social tensions between social classes. You have people at the base of the system who are sometimes intimidated by the people at the top of the system, you also have the people at the top of the system who don't care for the people at the base because they see them as untouchables. When you look at the school hallways through the Freudian lens, you see a lot of examples of people following their ids or their superegos. You see the kids that are so overweight that you can tell that they aren't even trying at all to get into shape, they follow their ids. They (most likely) just sit playing video games, watching TV, or chill on the couch and eat junk food. Then you have the people who are overweight but trying to become more fit. While in some cases, being overweight is because of some medical condition or something, that's usually not the case. Anyway, the people who are trying to get in shape are struggling between listening to their ids and their superegos. Then you have people who are completely in-shape. These people (at least when it comes to fitness, listen to their superegos. That's some of the conclusions you can come to when analyzing the hallways of school through the Marxist and Freudian lenses.
Hair 5
Money does not incorporate itself into a fishes life, but power shows through the Marxist lens. I breed Fancy-Tail Guppies as a hobby. Male and female guppies have very distinct characteristics, such as color and size. These fish pose opposite stereotypes when compared to humans. Male Guppies have slim, curvy bodies with large, colorful fins. While female guppies have larger, bulky bodies and small, dull fins. When looking at human stereotypes, males are bulky and aren't trying to be pretty. Females have continuous pressures to stay skinny and beautiful. Male guppies with the largest, most beautiful tails get the most attention from the female guppies. Therefore, power is shown in tail size and color. Guppies eat their new born fry minutes after they are born. The guppies do not want competition with breeding or food supply, even if it is their own children. The females experience the opression, because they do not get to be beautiful and they can not control the males from impregnating them. They do not have any power or influence because they are set up to fail. The base of the guppie's system is located with the males. The males dominate and make all of the decisions. The ideology for males is to be as big-tailed and colorful as possible. The superstructure of the females is to be as large as possible to be able to birth as many fry as possible. Greed is shown when the baby guppies are eaten. The males are the high social class, while the females are the low social class. The only way for male guppies to access the social ladder is by winning the genetic lottery. Only males with large tails win the genetic lottery. I believe that neither female nor male is miserable because of their class and they are both happy as long as they are fed. The system exploits the baby guppies when they are born because they are so vunerable. I feel that I set up my guppies to be mechanized or roboticized because their lives consist of eating, sex, and having babies. The feminist lens is also very prominent in guppies' lives. Female guppies are boring and are only used to have baby guppies and eat. If that were the case in a human setting, it would be horrible for the female. Females also can show power through birthing babies; they continue the population of the guppies. Guppies show opposite sterotypes when compared to humans, but they continue to keep their same gender filled roles. Nate Boscaljon Period 2
I have chosen to analyze the show Desperate Housewives. This show can be analyzed with every lens. For example, all of the characters live in the suburbs. They live in big houses with nice yards only to impress their neighbors. I see this through a Marxist lens. They care about what each neighbor thinks. They believe by having the bigger house or a nicer yard they have more power. Also, with the marxist lens, it is shown that the women's husbands are also trying to prove themselves by having the highest paying job. Unlike most of neighbors, the couple Lynette and Tom's roles in the household are switched. Lynette has a high paying job where she makes BUKOO money and works outside of the home, where as Tom is a stay at home dad who cooks, cleans, and cares for the kids. This can be seen through the Feminist lens. Each of the characters experience their own conflicts within themselves/family. For example, another housewife, Gabrielle, struggles with letting go with her past of being molested by her stepfather. She deals with this by living a fantasy world that includes non stop shopping and a passionate affair with her gardener. This can be seen with a Freudian lens as well as a Feminist lens. While Gabrielle is having this affair, she is forgetting her duties of being a wife and a mother. Her husband works hard to provide for his family and support her lavish lifestyle. They are frowned upon because this is definitely not how a household works, especially in the suburbs. On the surface they look like a happy couple with no cares, but society doesn't want to accept that this is not how a married couple should behave. With all of the conflicts and problems within each household, all of the characters find peace within hiding behind a big house and a nice yard to fool their neighbors/society.
Vivens 5
I decided to analyze the exhibit dance. It is mainly part of the feminist lens. We can go on and on arguing about if it is a sport or not. Guys usually say no it’s not while majority of girls will say that it is. Most people think it’s a feminine type of sport to do. Yes, there are a lot of more girlie types of dancing than masculine. Even though the types of dance are mostly for girls, there are a lot of guys that are also in those types of dances and unfortunately they get judged by guys who are sitting in the bleachers watching them. I on the other hand along with many other girls think that guys should be able to do those types of dances without being judged and put down. If guys don’t want to be involved in those girlie dances than there’s always other choices such as hip hop or break dancing. As a bonus we girls think that guys who dance are extremely attractive also, so maybe guys should think about joining other activities such as dance instead of just doing football, basketball, track, etc. The Marxist lens can also be used to analyze dance. While dancing, you show lots of power, strength, and emotion in your movements. You want to impress the judges/audience with your talent that you’ve been working so hard on for years. I honestly think that dance is one of the most competitive sports. You watch all the other teams perform and see how exciting and talented they were and then you end up getting butterflies in your stomach and have a huge adrenaline rush right before you go out to perform. Honestly just standing there waiting to go on stage is one of the best feelings I have. You have to be so confident in yourself and prove to everyone that you are able to express yourself on stage and show your passion for dance. Finally also with the Marxist lens, dance is extremely expensive I can hardly afford it, but as long as you are dedicated and that’s something that you love to do outside of school or in school than you should definitely stay in it and try not to worry so much about the cost.
Meyer 2
Some magazines may be good for a human to read and others are out right just ridiculous. Why should we listen to people telling us how to dress, do our hair, or how to fall in love? “Cosmopolitan” being one of the leading magazines trying to tell and show females there gender expectations. The first thing I notice when I look at this cover is the way the woman is positioned. Looking at it through a Feminist lens she is portraying herself with her hands by her hips, pressed against a wall, with a very seductive look on her face. She has the perfect long blonde hair, which every female dreams of, with the beach waves lying just past her shoulders attracting attention to her breasts. Not only all this, but also her breasts are plummeting out of her dress, and the dress if just barely long enough to cover up all the essential body parts. This magazine is also portraying that women have a certain role in society, and that role is that woman are supposed to look as sexy as they possibly can and are supposed to dress and look a certain way. This poses the question if there are “natural” roles men and women fill? Are women supposed to be trying as hard as they can to look as sexy as they can for males, or is that just what society is telling us? This magazine cover also has the Freudian lens screaming at us. In bold, all capital black letters are the words, “THE SEVEN BEST ORGASM TRICKS IN THE WORLD!” This is teaching anyone who looks at this magazine to follow their id and not even listen to their superego the slightest bit. Also, on the right hand side of the page in blue lettering are the words, “His Burning Sex Need”. With both of these statements on the page, it is showing and brainwashing any human who looks at this magazine cover to listen to their id and not there superego. It shows no feeling of guilt or shame but instead pride. We need to consider the magazines we are buying and if they are morally right for us, or if we could spend our money somewhere else in a better, much for effective way.
Van Hemert, 5
For my exhibit I decided to analyze my job. While using two of the critical lenses, the Marxist and Feminist lens, I could notice many more things then I could without the lenses. First off, the Marxist lens. The Marxist lens showed me that the new employees are considered to be the lower class, the employees that have been there for three or more years are considered to be the middle class, and the owner/manager is considered to be the upper class. The lower class will get paid the least and then the middle class will get paid more than the lower class because of their experience and the owner will obviously make the most. The lower class want to try and climb up the social ladder by working their hardest and showing the manager that they can become part of the middle class. Once the years have passed and they have gained more experience they become part of the middle class. The middle class wants to get paid more but will not be able to climb the ladder to the upper class. While looking through the Feminist lens, I could tell that a hardware store is not meant for women to work at. There are only three women working there out of thirteen employees. The three women have been there for ten or more years so they have the same experience that a man would have for working there for ten or more years. I have also noticed that when someone comes in looking for help, I see them pass the women, if they don’t know them, and come to one of the men working. The customers don’t expect that the women will know what they are looking for or will not be able to help them resolve their problem. Burkman pd5
For my blog task I chose to analyze the art of Tae Kwan Do. If using the Marxist lens you will see there are classes in this sport. The black belts or instructors are at the top while the white belts are at the bottom of this class ranking. Class mobility is used a lot in this sport as students test for a higher belt to gain more respect. In tournaments they try to match up students of the same class as opposed to completely different classes. To achieve a higher status one must first have achieved meritocracy. When testing for a higher rank one must know terminology, pattern, and how to do their break. After achieving a higher ranking comes more responsibility. As an over all “social ladder” everyone is mostly on the same page to help everyone succeed. In Tae Kwon Do the upper class is usually the more happier one because they call the shots in what happens in the gym. In this sport men and women are treated more as equals than separates. It is more common to see two people of the same gender sparing than it is opposite, but it does occur. Using the Feminist lens shows that the guys should work harder than the girls because fighting is typically a more male dominate sport. Women are expected to do as much as men. When sparing both genders are given the same type of equipment to use for their protection. This sport is for everyone to try. It helps teach self defense and discipline. Going from a Feminist point of view it seems there appear to be more guys in this sport than girls. The gender roles and expectations in Tae Kwon Do are relatively the same for both genders since this is taught for more of a self defense.
McConniel period 2
The exhibit I choose to analyze was the movie "Monty Python and the Holy Grail". Using the Marxist lens it can obviously be seen that the knights and King Arthur are at the top of the social ladder while the pheasants are at the bottom. The knights are given a sacred quest by god to find the holy grail. The peasants are seen as the workers who are troubled by sickness and are given no help from King Arthur. You can tell the movie has an anti-intelligent feeling to it. The knight who is supposed to be smart has theories that are completely wrong. Also the man who was going to tell about what the knights did was killed. Looking at the movie through a feminist lens you can see an interesting thing. The woman accused of being a witch was subjected not because she was a witch but because the men said she was. Also the women in the castle anthrax are seen as sexual objects. And the Freudian lens shows how some characters are very id based. Turning once again to the women at castle anthrax, they can be seen as using a fake image of a grail to get Sir Galahad into their castle to make sexual advances on him. Sir Lancelot can be seen as the most id based character. He only goes to save women because there the people who he wants to and thinks it will benefit himself. Also when he goes to save Herbert he lets his rage take over and kills innocent civilians. You can see the id in Herbert's father taking over. He wants his son to marry someone because it will give himself access to more land. The Knights who say Ni can be seen as using the power to say the sacred words to get people to do tasks for them.
Ladwig pd.5
Watching "The Star Wars" saga really made me think of how I could interpret or analyze the story. I looked at it in a Marxist lens. George Lucus said he didn't make the films to represent religion or communism but if he tried to or not, he did. All through the story the group called the Jedi believe in the force that if you believe in it strong enough it will reward you. The force is shown or represented aswhat could say is a god or religious figure. Throughout the whole series the Empire is the all ruling side trying to control everything. If you look closely the Empire consist of all white male humans that speak English and the Rebeliun is a mixed party that has all different races, species, and sexs. Also the Empire wants to destroy any planet that won't do what they want them to do. Those two things show the religious and communist symbolism. In the story both Anakin and Luke Skywalker start their lives as poor children living on the desert planet of Tatooine and they both have to fight their way up the social ladder. As being in the lower class they don't have any rights or powers and sold. Technically they are slaves treated with oppression. Not just Luke and Anakin start out as lower class once the Empire becomes in much power and controls many planets the poor seem to become poorer and lose everything as the the rich keep wealth and power if they do what the Empire wants them to like Jabaa the Hut. The whole story or meaning of the story seems to be who can get to the top of the superstructure and stay there the longest. You can look at "Star Wars" in other lenses also but I analyzed it with the Marxist and It made the movie just that much better then before.
Crow, 2
In the song “She Wolf” by Shakira she sings about the conflict between her superego and her id. Her superego is telling her she is more than a toy for a man to play with, while her id/libido is telling her to be extremely sexually active. In the line “There’s a she wolf in your closet” Shakira is not only talking to her husband but herself. Shakira’s superego is convincing her to hide her sexuality in her “closet.” “Open up and set it free” this line is Shakira’s id speaking telling her it’s okay to go sleep with as many men as she can, and that there won’t be any consequences. Another line that hints at her id trying to be released is “Darling it is no joke, this is lycanthropy.” Lycanthropy is a term used for a person who believes they are a wolf. Her id is telling her it’s fine to sleep around; after all she is just a mammal whose goal is to procreate. Throughout the video Shakira is trapped in a cage with a sign saying “do not feed the animal” this is highly metaphorical, symbolizing her superego trying to tell her to ignore her id.
The song is also about stereotypes of women and their place in the world. One of the lines “A domesticated girl that’s all you ask of me” Shakira is talking about the role her husband expects her to play. Shakira believes that in the modern world women are meant to be much more than a homemaker. If you were to phrase the line differently it could be a question “A domesticated girl? That’s all you ask of me?” Not only is her husband asking her to do the chores around the house but also abandon her other goals. Throughout the music video we see Shakira wearing outfits that are meant to look as if they have been ripped to shreds or as if she were not wearing clothes at all. We can assume that Shakira didn’t rip them herself but lustful men looking to gain something from her. Also in many short clips during the scene when Shakira is dancing in the cage it has a hard wood floor, like a stage, and the bars on the cage look very similar to stripper poles. Shakira is being trapped by all of these different ideas of how men think women should look and behave, instead of trying to escape though she goes along with it and dances anyway.
Minihan 1
Really any individual could be examined through the three lenses; I chose our U.S. presidents. It is a constant competition of who can get their word out to the public most. The men and women who run for president try to make themselves sound more intelligent than their competitor, they try to say intelligent things, and they try to sound like they will do absolutely anything to solve our country's biggest concerns. It's a constant battle of who can climb the social ladder quickest and be best known. The president usually comes from a wealthy family, a family who has won the environmental lottery. This is possible the only time people from the upper class try to relate and appear they are like the middle class. They try to manipulate the people into believing they have the same views as you while in reality they just want your vote.When viewing our U.S. presidents through the freudian lenses, I find it interesting how our view of the president has changed. Before the media took over our lives, the president’s personal life was kept from the public. One great example of this is President Kennedy. Kennedy’s affairs were hidden by the secret service and the media doesn’t learn about this till after he’s out of politics? While following their id was frowned upon, they still were able explore their ids and keep it from the people. The most recent example of our president following his id is President Clinton. He was caught having an affair with a twenty one year old inter. This was one of the bigger scandals during a president’s term.
An obvious object I see through the feminine lenses, that everyone should, is the fact that America has never had a female president. We are taught women are supposed to stay home with the children, cook and clean, while the men work daily and provide for his family. Men are supposed to be more reliable and stronger. We have not even had a female vice president, because have viewed women as being weak and incapable of handling the pressure.
Krege 1
As a soccer player and huge fan of the game I am choosing to analyze the game of soccer through the three lenses. Soccer isn't just a another sport like it is to most Americans that don't know much about it. It's a game of brains and that's where the Freudian lense comes into soccer. You have to brain storm and know how to attack your opponents weaknesses. It's also Freudian because its about how you work during practice, are you mentally determined to play? An example of marxist lenses through soccer would be all the top professional club teams in Europe, such as Spain or England. Those two countrys are known to have the worlds best players play for club teams in their country: why? Because that is where all the money is for soccer, those club teams are in the top world most expensive franchises in all of sports. Meaning all those great players are getting paid alot of money for scoring goals. You also hear the up and coming young guns wanting to go to those teams because they know that is the best opportunity for them to become better than they are right now. Soccer isnt a very feminist sport, women are welcome to play soccer just a any other guy would be. They have just as big of an event for their world cup as the men do. The only feminist in soccer would be racsism, a good ten years ago soccer was still a very rascist sport. The black or hispanic players that would sign on a club team in England would just get ripped to peaces by what the fans would say to them at supposivly their home field. Those players would be scared and wouldnt wanna play there anymore. So finally FIFA said that this needs and will stop and soon enough it stopped for good. Now it's a beautiful game to watch and play, one day I hope soccer will be a very popular sport here in the United States. Reta 7
For my blog assignment I choose to analyze my dog, Mollie. First off I would like to say is that she is a girl. Since she’s a girl, I would like to analyze in the Freudian lens. I’m the only male in my household, so a Freudian critic would state that she is subconsciously, if not already, attracted to me. She listens to me the most out of anyone else in my household, and also sleeps with me during the night. I am also the one who successfully trained her, while my mom and sister failed. A Freudian critic would ask, “Is that her superego or her id?” I also analyze Mollie in a Marxist lens. A Marxist critic would say that Mollie has failed the genetic lottery because she’s approximately the size of my shoe. She’s also a girl, so yet again, she failed the genetic lottery. On the other hand, she won the environmental lottery because she has a great family that takes good care of her. She obviously has less power than a big dog, especially a male. The critic would say that a big dog could easily eat Mollie in one bite. Also she wouldn’t be able to be an outside dog because she’s so small and couldn’t resist the outside weather of South Dakota. A Marxist lens would ask something along the lines of, “How would this animal survive in the wild, because it greatly lost the genetic lottery?” I would also analyze that my dog could potentially of control over me. I realize this because when she needs to be let out, I have to stop what I’m doing and go let her out. Also we have a set schedule of when and how much to feed her. She may or may not have control over me, superego or ego she could. That’s how I view my dog as the lenses we’ve learn in College Bound.
J.Nelson 7
As an avid fan of Lady Gaga, I just had to dive into her works. Gaga being the pop culture oddball of the century, idolized, criticized, even terrorized, she accomplished her ultimate desire. Fame. At first I planned to simply analyze Lady Gaga herself, but as I went through my play list on Itunes, I knew what had to be done. I decided that of all her mind-blowing glamorized and horrifically spectacular music videos, I had to choose “Telephone” by Lady Gaga, which features Beyonce. My first thoughts on this subject revolve around the breakdown of the prison as an institution, much like that in Cuckoo's nest. Are prisoners supposed to have identity and personal expression in prison? No. But in Gaga's video, the prisoners are the most vamped-out, gorgeous, fashion-star people present. To me this represents an culmination of heroic-outsider fascination. Plenty of exhibits (movies and books and songs and video games and TV shows) lionize loners, outsiders, and anti-heroes, and prisoners might be the most popular specific example. It's incredibly anti-Marxist. Instead of being rich, wealthy, and powerful men, they're instead social rejects that didn't conform to the Society's standards and "laws". Lady Gaga's continuing story clearly involves this game/dynamic, but it also highlights an interesting correlation with glamour that has also been present in such stories for a long time. Clint Eastwood? Bruce Lee? Johnny Depp? These guys all played multiple rough-and-tumble, lawless outsiders with mascara and top-notch hair-dressers. Viewing through the Feminist lens, I personally feel as if this video is pro-feminism, considering that most of what would be the "male" roles (such as prison guards, and behaviors in the prison courtyard) are all displayed through females. If they are gender roles, they're definitely reversed. And if audiences noticed, they certainly weren't complaining - beautiful heroes thinly disguised as dirty villains are meeting their ultimate expression in the "Telephone" video, where prisoners flash and pop with distinctive clothes, make-up, and hair like never before. To address this video with the Freudian Lens, I questioned, is this an example of how postmodern information-age super-saturation is corroding the walls between inside and outside, faceless prisoner and whole, healthy, legally-defined individual? Or is it an example of belligerent discourses of prison and punishment/treatment - instead of prisoners dangerous to society repaying a debt or at least being held at bay, we have patients - they incarcerated themselves as victims - who must be diagnosed and healed in order to rejoin society. The "healthy" individual expression to be found in buying clothes and following fashion trends must be installed, especially over and against more "socially-destructive" (and thus fractured, sick, mistaken) forms of self-assertion. This video certainly doesn’t just stop at entertainment, this video being a product of Lady Gaga’s alone means that it’s open to analysis and inner meaning since she’s clearly not your “average Joe”.
- Hauser period 1.
I chose to analyze my house for my exhibit. Through the marxist lens i thought about how the rooms were placed and realized that not only is the master bedroom generally the biggest room in the house, it also has the nicest view and is located at the end of the largest hallway. This symbolizes that is has the most power and the highest class in the household. The husband and wife usually live in this room which also shows that because they have got the biggest room they are showing there power to everyone that comes into the house. The view and distance from everything else shows to me that it is also the most peaceful and private room. The kitchen is also located on the same level as the master bedroom. Through the feminist lens that could symbolize the gender expectation of the mother to be there most often. It also has a living room next to it which symbolizes that even though the person in the kitchen may be working they also have an area to rest. When i walked downstairs i entered the living room and the first thing i noticed is a t.v. and a couch on the other side of the room from it. Through the freudian lens I interpret that as being the spot in the house to just let your id take over. There is also a fireplace in the living room which to me symbolizes the elegance and class of this room. When i enter the smaller room areas i noticed that the rooms looked the same and were around the same size. Through the marxist lens that could symbolize that the people living in these rooms have the same class. With those rooms they also share a bathroom as to the master bedroom getting its own and having an alternate down the hallway. That shows that the occupants of the master bedroom have more privileges that those of the smaller rooms. I now feel that i have a much better understanding of my house because i was able to see through the lenses into what things really meant.
-Harris 7th
I analyzed my room. I have a desk that makes me feel like I am organized. In a way it also makes me look organized to other people and it makes me look like I have everything together when I really don't. People like to think that I am though. I think it makes them feel like they can rely on me more and it makes me feel like I am someone that people can look up to. Which makes me feel good and I'm sure that if others were in a situation like that they would feel the same way. I also have an open closet all the time. Most of the time it is because I don't like closed doors. Also I think its because when its open I can see the dress that my mom and I made together my freshman year. You can also see all of the clothes that I have. I think that it makes me feel fortunet that I am able to have all of that and that I had the money to buy them. My room is also very bright with colors. I make it that way so that maybe I can change the mood of people who walk into it. Maybe they would be in a better mood if they saw all the bright greens, blues, purples, and yellows. Also I have a corner in my room that shows all of my art work that I have done. Mostly to show off the work in hope that someone would think that it was amazing and just absolutely love it. In a way that's selfish and a superego kind of thing to do but it is comforting to know that you are appreciated and just to know that you did a great job with something that you loved doing. In my room it pretty much looks like I have everything under control but mostly, in a way, I'm just trying to impress the people that walk into it.
Lush, pd.2
What I chose to analyze is the blockbuster hit Transformers. Transformers is a very popular film with a thrilling plot and stunning special effects. While watching this movie I saw that I could use the Feminist lens to analyze this movie deeper. In the movie I noticed that the autobots are all males. Then I thought to myself, this is highly sexist. Why would they only make male autobots? I think it’s because our society and culture today say that’s how it has to be. Females can’t be these huge, powerful heroes. That just wouldn’t appeal to the average movie goer. The directors’ goal is to sell tickets, and society tells us that you must have the heroes as males. Look at other action films, all of the main characters are men. I couldn’t tell you a blockbuster hit as the women with the lead roll in an action film. Also what I saw is, why do they have Megan Fox as a main character in this film? What purpose does she serve in this movie? The answer is to sell tickets to young adults who want to see a beautiful lady run around doing literally nothing for the film. In the movie Megan Fox just follows Shia LaBeouf around while he does all the work. Why do movies need to do this to sell tickets? Megan Fox is a terrible actor, but because she his this great looking girl. She gets all kinds of phrase for being a good actor. Look in other films she herself alone has stared in. All were movies with awful reviews. But I must admit, the director is very smart for casting Megan Fox in the movie. The movie probably made more money because of it, and I think that is what is wrong with our country today. Everything these days is based on sex.
-Ben Schultz 1
The exhibit I would like to analyze is about the United States Marine Corps Delayed Entry Program. This is where I am as of right now until I graduate and receive my High School diploma. Training over at the Armed Force Center every Wednesday and every second Saturday of each month, I have viewed some interesting things I saw through each of the three lenses.
Marxist Lens: Like high schools, there are clichés/groups of the people being trained before being shipped off, on whatever date, to boot camp. We have the people who (stereo-typically) joining just because their parents force them to join just to get out of the house and are usually the ones who are known as the “bad kids” or “slackers” who were not very successful in school. We have the people who are seeking to build up their confidents, becoming more leader-like in their society and to taste the sweet taste of adventure. Then we have the people who (seriously) are joining, “to kill. I mean, I wanna, I wanna kill. Kill. I wanna, I wanna see, I wanna see blood and gore and guts and veins in my teeth. Eat dead burnt bodies. I mean kill, kill, KILL, KILL," quoted by the song and movie, Alice’s Restaurant. During PT sessions, there are competitions against the strongest and fastest. The Gunnery Sergeant gives high praises to those who are the athletes and giving out their best effort to be awarded Highest IST or Poolee of the Month. The non-athletic people are usually ignored but are being yelled at to push harder and put in more effort. There are some tensions between the ones who have muscles to those who do not. But being Marines, we act as a family. If one falls, we all fall.
Feminist Lens: There not a whole lot of females in the Marines. We have two females who are currently in the Delayed Program but being the minority at the PT, it seems a little uncomfortable for them having to workout with 10+ men. Not being sexist, but they are viewed “weak” and not being able to do the tasks/requirements men have to do in order to go to boot camp. They have to do fewer sit-ups and are given a longer time for the 1 mile and a half run. Instead of doing pull ups, they are to do flexed arm hang for at least 15 seconds.
Freudian Lens: Gunnery Sergeant tells us these words just about every PT sessions, “Doesn’t matter how physically ready you are, you will never be mentally fit for boot camp.” He also added on there will always be a point where we will be missing mommy and daddy taking care of us. The fact we will miss anything that pertains about home. We will be train to fight under pressure, lack of food, and lack of sleep to what Gunnery Sergeant likes to call, “three months of Hell” in boot camp.
I dislike being asked, “Mike, why did you join the Marines?” (Mainly because if I had a dollar every time I was asked this question, I would quit my job at Dairy Queen.) My reason is for the sense of adventure, to become more of leader than a follower, to have more confidents in myself, and to become a better citizen.
Marines: The Few. The Proud.
~Semper Fidelis,
Mike Frazer pd. 1
I am analyzing the Disney film “The Little Mermaid”. When analyzing this film through the feminist lens you see that women are put down on the social ladder. The king rules the sea and has authority over all the creatures of the sea including his daughter. His daughter is sixteen years old and is bored with the sea and fascinated with the surface world. This implies that she has her head in the clouds and that she needs to heed her father’s warnings and take his advice. The girls in the movie are also the ones who usually cause trouble which is suggesting that girls cause a lot of problems. The Freudian lens also plays an important role in analyzing the movie. Ariel’s desire to understand and be a part of the surface world represents our want for information about things that we do not understand. Ariel’s deal with the sea witch represents our want for self-gratification rather than thinking about the consequences our actions might have in the future. This film is also very pro family. Parents make mistakes too and this film shows that through the king when he is too rough on Ariel, and he will not let her explore the world and see what is outside of the kingdom. It is very heavy on the topic of revenge as well. Ursula is very upset about being banned from the kingdom, and she wants to get back at the king for banishing her which she tries doing by draining life essence from his subjects, and she tries to do that with his daughter as well. The film shows how revenge is not worth it and should not be pursued when Ursula is killed for pursuing revenge on the king. This film also shows that parents must eventually be willing to let their children go into the real world and grow up.
Waller 7
One of the most fascinating exhibits to look through with the feminist lens is the topic of the start women’s involvement in the Second World War. All the men that worked and made the money were off to war, which caused a problem in production of goods in the United States. Most of the women were stay-at-home mothers and cleaned house and cooked supper for the family. There were no more materials being produced or war supplies being made. So the women of the early forties broke out an asked why are there limitations on genders? Why do men not allow women to work? There are no “natural” gender roles for making fridges at a factory or sewing military uniforms. It is all cultural difference. The women took over the cultural boundaries of “Nature vs. Nurture” and applied for jobs in factories and military services throughout the United States. There was an uprising in women’s morale due to their new found dignity. They had crashed down the “gender expectations” that the world had held for the last century and a half. The relative meaning of what women could do was completely transformed to a whole new world and life. The Feminist in me says that gender roles could be completely flipped upside down. Being a male, I see that men became more powerful due to their power and strength. Women and men are created amazingly different for being the same class of mammals. It is extraordinary how the compositions of the two are drastically different. No matter the brute strength and double standards created by them men, the women looked past the binary oppositions and helped greatly with the war effort. I completely believe the women of the forties that contrasted culture in such ways were the underlined cause for the victory of World War II.
Weisenbach. 1.
I chose to analyze my truck. It represents many different lenses and is a personal representation. Through a Freudian lens my truck is similar to people, it has 337,000+ miles on it and still runs good even though it has had some repairs, such as a new transmission, tie-rods, and tires. People are very much the same way and our society shows its preference, people want to look young and feel or act young by buying makeup products, Viagra, cosmetic surgery, and many other things that dominate today’s market, even though they may not need the products, the media has brainwashed us into thinking that we are never perfect, but perfect can be possible. It also represents a catalyst to my Id, I love to hunt and a truck only makes it easier for me to go, by providing transportation through snow, mud and sand. A truck can also be seen to show a person’s libido or masculinity through a feminist lens. A truck represents everything a man is supposed to be and do. It is rugged and does work similar to the way we think men are supposed to do the work and be the main provider, where a car would represent a woman’s vehicle, it is cute and more susceptible to damage. A Marxist critic may see a truck as a tool used to do work and represents an upper working class person. Some may see it unnecessary to have big tires, but I like to think of them as a torsion wrench instead of a little socket wrench, which gives me an advantage to climb the socioeconomic ladder by being the best, and fastest at the job, not to mention they look cool. In theory a truck can be seen differently by many people, depending on their background.
Heidbrink pd.1
The school
looking thought the Marxist lens a school is a perfect example of social ladders. At the top we have the sport people, in the middle we have the rich and snotty and at the bottom we have the sweet and quiet kids. If you are at the top everyone knows who you are you get a lot of attention you get your name in the school paper. If you are in the middle most people know you and you are one the student counsel. If you are at the bottom only your friends know you, you get pushed around in the hall and made fun of. Some people may say there is a chance to climb the school social ladder but you have to climb it the way the people at the top want you to climb it. The people at the top are happy for the most part because in a way they run the school, but I think the people at the bottom are happier because they have lest to worry about. Yes, I am sure there are days where they wish they were at the top but for the most part they are happy. Looking thought the Freudian lens the football boys represent the “id” behavior because they become animals when playing football, they don’t care if they hurt the other person they just want to get the ball in the end zone and score. The “A” students and the students who work hard for everyone around them represent the superego because they care about their work and they also care about others. The most people seeking narcissistic bliss would be the sophomores because they don’t give are care they have made it thought freshmen year and now it should get easier; they just want to take one day at a time and plan last minute fun. (podhradksy7)
Over this last weekend, I went to the movie Warrior. While watching the movie, I analyzed it through a variety of lenses. The movie is about two brothers, one an ex-marine, the other a school teacher, and their struggles to deal with their father. In the beginning of the movie I started to psycho analyze Tommy. Tommy is an ex war hero, who left the marines due to a tragic accident that occurred during his tour of duty. However, I wondered what could possibly drive Tommy to join the marines. As the movie went on, I realized that his dad was a very abusive alcoholic that was very mean to Tommy, his brother, and their mom. Tommy, in the movie, served both his superego and Id. He served his superego due to the fact that he went into “Sparta” (a UFC fighting tournament where the winner was granted a lot of money) only to support his dead friends family. He wanted to make sure that they were okay and could live fairly well. However, he also serves his ID when it came to his father. Because Tommy’s father was very abusive and an alcoholic, Tommy blamed him for his mother’s death. Therefore, even after Tommy’s dad quit drinking Tommy refused to forgive his father. In my opinion, this shows that Tommy is serving his ID because he’s only looking out for himself, and serving what he wants to do rather than what he should do. While Tommy’s brother Brendan is a lot like Tommy. He serves his superego because he joins “Sparta” so that he can keep his house. However, with his dad he serves his ID just like Tommy.
This movie also has a strong feminist lens. The strongest evidence I have for a feminist lens is that because Tommy is trying to support this woman, it’s trying to show that a woman can’t support herself. This is shown again with Brendan with his wife. The wife could’ve tried to do something to help pay for the mortgage, but only Brendan stepped up. The movie Warrior showed a strong evidence of Freudian and Feminist lenses.
Beukelman, 2
Roisin Murphy’s outfit in her Music Video “Overpowered” features a large, puffy, wintery-looking jacket of which is made of a very glossy black and white checkerboard patterned fabric. The puffiness and pattern of which the jacket is comprised represents the deep level of trickery put into play by her boyfriend in that it psychologically immersed her in a cloud of feigned romance. She keeps the jacket/ costume on the whole time during the music video of which, the most choreography that was present was nothing more than a sashayed, model-like walking form that carried on throughout the video. Even then, when she finally arrives at her house after walking past several rather public interpersonal, relationship-based conflicts, of which they were essentially replaying small portions of her life.
In the unusual yet, eye-opening view of a feminist viewer/listener/reader, Roisin has succumbed herself to being nothing more than a clingy, man-pleasing robot of whom prefers to express her thoughts and emotions through choreographed song and dance while wearing her boyfriend’s façade (fluffy, shiny, checker-boarded jacket) to keep her psyche comfortable in the real world. Women should always have the upper, deciding/controlling hand in a relationship. Women are the more intelligent of sex of the hominid species and as such should be the ones ‘calling the shots’ in a relationship. The common gender roles of women in society is a great partner in this façaded statement that this music video has made Roisin has convinced herself that the relationship has ended (according to her boyfriend) is still an ongoing pursuit. If she believes that the relationship is still ongoing then, she should be able to have her spouse with her. She needs to realize that her spouse is fooling her. No man, in any good right or condition should be allowed to trick/play a woman. Such oppressive acts should be outlawed. It’s rather apparent to me as a feminist critic that Roisin has drowned her self in the great Egyptian river of Denial.
Morrison 7
Beavis and Butthead, what a perfect example of two ids. These highschool "morons" do things on impulse, on feelings and urges that strike them. I can definitely analyze these two characters through a Freudian lens. These two pubescent boys go to school at Highland High School and are known as the dumb, entertaining, cartoon characters on MTV's Beavis and Butthead. In the movie Beavis and Butthead do America, the two boys travel across the country with a lethal device sewn into his pants just for hopes of getting to "score" at the end of the road. A man in the movie hires two guys that are mistaken to "do" his wife. Beavis and Butthead came along following their need to watch television since theirs had been stolen. They wanted to watch TV and it's sort of caveman-ish that they are following their want and urge for entertainment. Anyway, they make it place to place meeting this guys wife to have sex with her because they are virgins and have a manly urge and instinct to fulfill. They make it past federal agents and end up close to dead in the desert. Butthead lies there and Beavis eats a cactus to get water to survive but instead the cactus is Peyote. Peyote is a psychedelic cactus that will, in the words of my mother, “MESS YOU UP”. Peyote causes hallucinations, vomiting, and awkward feelings in the body. This trip that Beavis goes on gives his id a face pretty much and Beavis loves it. The trip is made up of dancing demon women, bugs, and zombie looking creatures. A walk through Beavis’s mind. These two boys do everything on impulse, I admire them for it and I think Beavis and Butthead are very entertaining. I admire them so much so that I have a tattoo of Beavis on my back.
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