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    The Grinch is a Prude, Obnoxious character which is due to traumatic events while growing up, now has a intense grievance towards Christmas. After this experiences he decided to run away and live on Mt. Crumpit. The only times he would come out of his cave would to steal food from the Who’s or just to annoy everyone. In the movie, “How the Grinch Stole Christmas”, the plot of this movie is essentially is that there is more to Christmas than just decorations and presents. At the Beginning of “How

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    I will be using the Maximist school of criticism to analyze the poem, "how the Grinch stole Christmas". this school of maximise is based on the comparison of the higher and lower class of society by the theories of Karl Max . In analyzing the poem, readers can notice the many differences in the characters spot in society. The Grinch represents the lower class and symbolizes the struggles of being less fortunate and represents the lower class of society. The citizens of whoville, the rich isolated

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    Perspective of How the Grinch Stole Christmas The meaning Dr. Seuss implied was focused on the Grinch's materialism. As mentioned by you, the Grinch's "moralistic superego" was the reason for correcting the Grinch's actions (Wong). However, I propose the Grinch's hatred spanned from his focus on materialism, which ultimately distracted him from the true meaning of Christmas. To begin, his hatred of Christmas extends from his materialistic view of Christmas. Evidently, the Grinch explains his specific

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    selected was How the Grinch Stole Christmas because it was the first “big kid” book that I learned to read. My mom read it to me as a goodnight story. After I learned how to read it with my mom, I would read it every night with my brother and sister. This was the first book that I had always begged to read, no matter how many times I had read it, it was always very interesting, funny, and adventurous. The Dr. Seuss book How the Grinch Stole Christmas is the story of when The Grinch did not like

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    a character that depict a personality disorder and, “enduring patterns of experience and behavior that differ greatly from the norm and the expectations of the individual’s social group”, is Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas. The character’s behavior that I will be examining is the Grinch and the personality disorder that he acquires to exhibit is anti-social personality disorder. Anti-social personality disorder is one of the four disorders consider appearing dramatic, emotional, and unpredictable

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    How the Grinch Stole Christmas: Through the Eyes of Marxism Marxism is the most appropriate type of criticism when analysing the poem, “The Grinch Who Stole Christmas.” Marxism is based on the ideas of Karl Marx, who believed that for an ideal future, there were to be no social classes or inequality. Through the Marxist approach, you are able to understand why the Grinch is the way he is. In the poem, it is clear that the Grinch represents the lower class, and the Whos represent the Upper

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    at “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” by Dr. Seuss from a Marxist perspective. The Marxist school of criticism focuses on the clash between the dominant class and the lower class. This poem is about the Grinch, who is very different from everyone else in his society, making him an outcast that nobody wants to be around. The Grinch is the embodiment of the lower class because he does not get to make important decisions and he lives in isolation. The Whos are the complete opposite of the Grinch, as they

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    animated and non-animated versions of Dr. Suess’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas can be compared to identify the similarities and differences of both films. The animated movie was produced in the 1960’s and is approximately thirty minutes long, while the non-animated movie was produced in the 2000’s and is about an hour and a half long. They both include the Grinch, an angry man that hates Christmas. Because of his hate for the holiday season, the Grinch plans to dress as Santa Claus and steal all of

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    poem, “How the Grinch Stole Christmas,” Geisel provides a moral lesson by showing the realization of what is really important during the holiday season. The Grinch goes through a transformation which includes: a lack of morals, a realization of meanings, and the development of his morals. The Grinch demonstrated a lack of moral actions within the poem. The author showed a lack of moral judgment by stealing their Christmas and happiness to fulfil his own awful goals. During the poem, the Grinch is

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    2012 “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” Psychoanalysis by definition, “is a psychological and psycho therapeutic theory conceived in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud (McLeod 1). According to Freud, psychoanalysis deals with the concepts of death, sex, and violence. In dealing with psychoanalysis, he determines that there are three parts of the unconscious mind, the ego, the superego, and the id. In Dr. Seuss' “How the Grinch Stole Christmas

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