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How I Met Your Mother Marxist Criticism
How Literary Criticism Met Your Mother Writing Assignment From the pilot episode of an American comedy TV show called How I Met Your Mother, I find that both Marxist criticism and Feminist criticism exist in this episode due to the roles of the characters, the ways they act and speak, the things they own, etc. In terms of the Marxism, it is easy to find out that there is a relationship between class and power in this episode. As Barney who always wears a suit while his friends are all wearing casual clothes, he seems to be the one that represents the upper class and the rest of the characters might be the lower class because they do not own as much capital as Barney does, and this shows that the lower class is suffering the low level

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