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What is the primary goal of a Marxist literary critic?

  1. To evaluate the aesthetic quality of a poem's metrical patterns
  2. To expose how the text reflects or conceals social and economic conditions
  3. To catalogue and classify as many metaphors as possible in a short story
  4. To establish whether the author was an active member of the Communist Party
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Correct answer: To expose how the text reflects or conceals social and economic conditions

Marxist criticism is 'extrinsic'; it looks beyond the text to history and economics. The goal is to see how literature participates in the power dynamics of its time — either reinforcing the status quo or challenging it.

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