ENGLISH REFLECTION

From the 4th module of the 3rd quarter in English, I learned about critiquing a
literary selection based on different approaches. Last module, I learned about the critique but
now it's a new lesson that I need to study more about approaches. I try to answer the what I
know base on the words in the box without reading the lesson from the discussion. In what's in,
I answered well the two questions as I learned them last week. In what's new, I simply write the
word hidden in every picture because there are clues to answered them easily.

From the discussion, I learned about different approaches you can use in writing
a critique. And these are Structuralist/Formalist, Moralist, Marxist, Feminist, Historical and
Reader-response. Structuralist school of thought stems from linguistic theories of structure
which posit that there is an underlying structure that organizes language and the way language
expresses our thoughts. While a Formalism appears to follow from classical principles of literary
design including Plato and Aristotle's notion of organic. Under moralist criticism, a literary text
is expected to reinforce traditionally held moral values.

Marxist literary criticism, for its part examines how the text represent and treats
the power dynamics between social classes based on the theories and social examination of
Karl Marx. Unlike Marxist literary criticism, the focus of Feminist literary criticism is a dynamics
between gender in a text. It follows the broader perspective feminism which identifies and
challenges the ways in which women are marginalized. Historical, which text is thus viewed as a
sort of 'time capsule' that captures some aspect of the text's historical roots. And the last one is
the Reader-response which leverages your own experiences, principles and beliefs in deciding
what a text is saying. I learned a lot of this in this module and still hoping to know more about
critiquing a literary selection.