Summary of Your Task:
Watch the film The Fisher King and apply ONE of the suggested critical lenses (Marxist, Feminist, or Psychological) to The Fisher King. What would critics from your chosen school of thought say about this movie? What would they notice? Review your notes and handouts from our literary criticism classes and write an analysis of The Fisher King using your chosen form of literary criticism. You will create a detailed outline of your analysis. To accompany your outline, you will create a collage of images. This collage should artistically connect to the ideas in your outline. You are then to write a paragraph explaining how your collage represents the analysis in your outline.
Breakdown of Your Task:
Watch the Fisher King
Select an appropriate lens to use:
o Psychological
o Feminist
o Marxist
Make a detailed outline which applies your selected lens to the Fisher King. Based on the lens you have selected, you should answer the following question(s):
➢ Psychological:
o Jung: What is the hidden pain in the shadow? How does the shadow malfunction as a result of the pain not being dealt with? How does the animus encourage the individual to confront the buried pain? How does confronting the buried pain allow the shadow to stop malfunctioning.
➢ Feminist: How is the power inequality between men and women created? How is it maintained? How may it be overcome?
➢ Marxist: How does the materialism of American society prevent people from reaching real happiness?
Create a visual collage of one paragraph of your outline
Write a paragraph which explains how your collage represents the analysis in your chosen body paragraph.