Practice in Literary Criticism

1. Althusser argues that the process of interpellation or “hailing” creates us as subjects within the ideological system. Where and how does interpellation function in the Kinks’ song “Lola”?
Link to the song lyrics:https://genius.com/The-kinks-lola-lyrics

2. As a materialist theory, Marxism sees the base as the material foundation of the superstructure, and the superstructure as providing ideological legitimacy for the base. Identify and discuss the workings of base and superstructure in Tennyson’s “Ulysses.”
Link to Ulysses:https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45392/ulysses

Both questions should be about a paragraph long (but NO more than two).
One quote per response
Thank you

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