Which approach explores ethical and religious questions raised by a work and the author's ideas about how life should be lived?

Which approach explores ethical and religious questions raised by a work and the author's ideas about how life should be lived?

• A. Appositive
• B. Farce
• C. Philosophical Criticism
• D. Reader-Response Criticism

Answer: (C)

Philosophical criticism analyzes a work by looking at ethics, religion, and the author's view of how life should be lived. It asks what beliefs about right and wrong the text embodies, what it suggests about life’s meaning or purpose, and how these ideas are conveyed through characters, plot, and symbols. This approach focuses on the author’s worldview and the moral questions the work raises, making it the best fit for exploring what the work says about how life should be lived. Other angles would examine language or form (such as grammar or structure), a comic genre’s devices, or the reader’s own response, but they don’t center on the author’s ethical or religious ideas in the same way.

Philosophical criticism analyzes a work by looking at ethics, religion, and the author's view of how life should be lived. It asks what beliefs about right and wrong the text embodies, what it suggests about life’s meaning or purpose, and how these ideas are conveyed through characters, plot, and symbols. This approach focuses on the author’s worldview and the moral questions the work raises, making it the best fit for exploring what the work says about how life should be lived. Other angles would examine language or form (such as grammar or structure), a comic genre’s devices, or the reader’s own response, but they don’t center on the author’s ethical or religious ideas in the same way.