The Marxist lens of analysis is used to understand the dynamics of power in a media artifact. It uses the same techniques of semiotic analysis only focusing them on the group structures and how rigid or fluid they are as well as the how the dominant group exerts control over or alienate those who do not share the same Ideologies. Rather than placing character into Propp's dramatis personae we instead figure out how their lifestyles and group boundaries are dived and the difficulty of crossing from one group to another using what is called Group-Grid Theory. Those who go against the dominant group face the most resistance, those who adhere to it maintain the status quo and some become distraught and alienate themselves entirely. The dynamics of power groups can examined in all the ways that there is a dependency in power be it, sexual, economic, social or physical all of these conflicts can be examined through a Marxist thus create an understanding of how these groups interact with each other deepening the understanding of them.
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