The A level English lit specification demands that you do "independent study" of a book among other books we are told to read. we have been told that as usual, we will be analyzing the literary works, the criteria for analysis before has often been mundane, along the lines of "How does X represent love or a change in society" mundane and neutral.
Now we are forced to analyze at least two of these topics
narrative construction and how the texts work (Narrative theory)
gender (Feminist theory)
economics and social organisation (Marxist theory)
nature and the survival of the planet (Eco-critical theory)
nationality, identity and power (Post-colonial theory)
aesthetics and value (Literary value and the Canon)
these topics all seem very politically biased (bar the first and last topics) and this upsets me greatly as a person who does not identify with the left nor enjoy my """""""""""independent""""""""""" studies to be ruined by such biased and lackluster topics, even if you think that Feminism is not biased I assure you this will not be just first and second wave feminism but involving the uselss modern interpretation of feminism with "toxic masculinity" and other such nonsense
these questions are horribly biased and should have been made more politically neutral or at least give some other options bar the two very uninteresting bottom and top ones.
It is also not like I am able to argue against these as someone coming to a book from a marxist perspective would not be talking about how bad or morally corrupt marxism