Blog Entry #1: My Critical Lens

I chose to pick the feminist critical lens because I have always found it interesting to see how gender roles can have a major impact on the characters in a novel. This particular lens interested me more than the others because I have always enjoyed viewing the interactions and relationships between characters in a novel based on their gender roles. My previous experience with the topic of gender roles was when I read the play Othello. This play deals with many different and significant gender roles that cause conflict and regret for many of the characters. My personal beliefs on the topic of gender roles are that it is not always a good thing for one gender to dominate over another and for one gender to cause conflict for a character or two in a novel. Another lens I originally considered doing was the psychoanalytical lens. The reason I was originally going to do this lens was because it seemed interesting to determine the hidden desires and motivations of different characters. By the end of this blogging experience, I hope to have a better understanding of the feminist lens and how it can affect people in the world for either the better or the worse.