In Jane Eyre, Jane describes her first sight of Bertha: "What it was, whether beast or human being, one could not, at first sight tell." Which claim does a feminist reading generate from that description?

In Heart of Darkness, Marlow describes dying African laborers only as "black shadows of disease and starvation, lying confusedly in the greenish gloom," denying them names or interiority. Which lens does a critique of this passage draw on?

In The Great Gatsby, Nick reflects that Tom and Daisy "smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness." Which claim does a Marxist reading generate?

In Frankenstein, Victor recalls that "breathless horror and disgust filled my heart." A student reads this first psychoanalytically and then through a Marxist lens. What changes in the claim about the creature?

In The Awakening, Edna feels she has 'descended in the social scale' but 'risen in the spiritual.' Which claim does a Marxist reading generate?

In Hamlet, Hamlet concludes that "conscience does make cowards of us all." A critic reads this line as revealing a mind divided against its own unacceptable desires and fears. Which lens is this?

Beloved opens: "124 was spiteful. Full of a baby's venom." Through a formalist lens, which detail in the novel becomes most central?

In Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie reaches the point where "she had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them." Which claim does a feminist reading generate?

In Macbeth, Banquo reflects, "Thou hast it now: king, Cawdor, Glamis, all, / As the weird women promised, and I fear / Thou play'dst most foully for't." Which lens reads this as anxiety about legitimate rule?

In The Tempest, Caliban tells Prospero, "You taught me language, and my profit on't / Is, I know how to curse." A postcolonial lens on the play would make which detail central?

In Mrs. Dalloway, Clarissa senses "this being Mrs. Dalloway; not even Clarissa any more; this being Mrs. Richard Dalloway." A student reads this first through a feminist lens and then through a formalist one. What changes in the claim about Clarissa?

Pride and Prejudice opens: "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." Which claim does a Marxist reading generate?

In King Lear, Gloucester says, "I stumbled when I saw." A critic argues that King Lear turns blindness into a repeated structural motif, not just a character's punishment. Which lens is this?

In Wuthering Heights, Catherine declares, "Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He's always, always in my mind." Through a psychoanalytic lens, which detail in the novel becomes most central?

In The Scarlet Letter, Hester's badge is described: "in fine red cloth, surrounded with an elaborate embroidery and fantastic flourishes of gold thread, appeared the letter A." Which claim does a feminist reading generate?

Invisible Man opens: "I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me." A critic argues this exposes how institutions make Black identity visible only through stereotypes and uses. Which lens is this?

In The Tempest, Caliban insists, "This island's mine, by Sycorax my mother, / Which thou tak'st from me." A student reads this first through a formalist lens and then through a postcolonial one. What changes in the claim about Caliban?

In The Metamorphosis, soon after waking transformed, Gregor thinks, "what a strenuous occupation I've chosen! Always on the road, day out, day in." Which claim does a Marxist reading generate?

In King Lear, Lear cries into the storm, "Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!" Through an ecocritical lens, which detail in the play becomes most central?

In Jane Eyre, Rochester confesses, "Bigamy is an ugly word! I meant, however, to be a bigamist." A student reads this first through a psychoanalytic lens and then through a feminist one. What changes in the claim about Bertha?