It concerns itself with the class struggle between the workers who produce capital and those who control capital. It looks at the economic status of characters in a story and what happens to them as a result of that status. Cultural criticism also is interested in the economic and political aspects of a work and why a certain aesthetic product is more valued than others. Such critics might examine why Shakespeare s Henry V started off as a play enjoyed by working class people, later became a highbrow play enjoyed only by the educated, and still later during World War II became popular again as a patriotic statement about embattled Englishmen. Girls suffer from penis envy.
Childhood traumas shape adult life.
The interpretation of dreams is necessary. Reader-response holds that the reader is the third party in a relationship with text and author. The reader makes a transaction with the work, assimilating and actualizing it in light of the reader s knowledge and experience. Religious and political beliefs, gender, life experiences all shape how a reader responds to a work. A Protestant and a Catholic in Northern Ireland might each react differently to a story about an IRA bombing.