Literary criticism provides different perspectives to understand a text through things like formalism, dramatic form analysis, new criticism, reader response theory, historicism, and feminist criticism. Formalism maintains a work contains intrinsic features and Aristotle's theories of dramatic construction can be applied. Historicism places a text in its historical context to understand how it reflects or criticizes the events and culture of its time. Feminist criticism centers women's experiences and how patriarchal ideology oppresses women economically, politically, socially and psychologically within a text.