The text "Glossary of Literary Theory" describes the main goal of Marxism being, “The set of beliefs, values, attitudes, and ideas that constitutes the consciousness of this class forms an ideological superstructure, and this ideological superstructure is shaped and determined by the material infrastructure or economic base.” Referring that marxism comes from the beliefs, values and attitudes that class is formed and why social classes exist.When presenting marxism in Gossip Girl in season 1 episode 3 “Poison Ivy” it is Ivy League week as the teens on the Upper East Side at the school that is for girls, Constance Billard, and the opposing school for boys named St. Jude, prepare for a visit from the Ivy League representatives. Dan the average Brooklyn boy has his heart and future set on the important usher position for the Dartmouth rep, but he is upset to find out he was beat by Nate Archibald one of Manhattan's Elite who did not really care about school even with all the pressure from his discipline father, The Captain. Dan is upset because he realizes that the upper-class students get things way easier than he does because he is not as high in class as they …show more content…
Marxist Criticism is the way people live their lives in and with social institutions, wealth, power, social status, economy, and culture .The writers introduces marxism by showing the differences between the upper class and the lower class. Also by showing how power comes from money and class and that some people just do not fit in the life of the upper class. When the average characters live their life in the upper-class they realize not everyone is fit for the higher class unless they were born in it. Marxist shows how class affects these characters behavior throughout the whole