How might the work be seen as a critique of organized religion?How does religion function in the text to keep a character or characters from realizing and resisting socioeconomic oppression?

Social class

Some questions Marxist critics ask about literary texts

The following questions are offered to summarize Marxist approaches to literature.
1. Does the work reinforce (intentionally or not) capitalist, imperialist, or classist values? If so, then the work may be said to have a capitalist, imperialist, or classist agenda, and it is the critic’s job to expose and condemn this aspect of the work.

2. How might the work be seen as a critique of capitalism, imperialism, or classism? That is, in what ways does the text reveal, and invite us to condemn, oppressive socioeconomic forces (including repressive ideologies)? If a work criticizes or invites us to criticize oppressive socioeconomic forces,
then it may be said to have a Marxist agenda.

3. Does the work in some ways support a Marxist agenda but in other ways (perhaps unintentionally) support a capitalist, imperialist, or classist agenda? In other words, is the work ideologically conflicted?

4. How does the literary work reflect (intentionally or not) the socioeconomic conditions of the time in which it was written and/or the time in which it is set, and what do those conditions reveal about the history of class struggle?

5. How might the work be seen as a critique of organized religion? That is,how does religion function in the text to keep a character or characters from realizing and resisting socioeconomic oppression?