cool hand luke part II

From the class presentations we've had, each reading the work in their own way, i feel that cool hand luke can be done in the same fashion.
Marxist is this a story of the opression of the working class (prisoners) by the bourgeoisie (warden) and is luke's struggle representative of that revolt that Marx speaks of. For through his revolt we see the only change, the only way the man with the glasses can be defeated is through the fight against him.
psycho-analytical It is hard to see this as an entirely sexual piece but i am familiar that many psycho analysts could view God as this father figure thats clearly played out through the movie.
Reader-Response- Or is the whole religious view simply a readers response to the work?

What i think is even more interesting is to resort back to some of what Frye and Dante said about the different levels. You know, this could simply be viewed as a collections of words that are a collection of letters. Is it a series of images such as rebellion, death, that type of thing. Or is it on this mythic level, certainly it can be viewed as so. For the story of Jesus is found in all sorts of literature whether it be intentional or not it appears.
In Dante's Three levels the story can be viewed, the literal: A man named Luke was imprisoned, escaped, all these things happened to him and so on.
it can be seen as alegorical: that it is not simply the story of luke, but of man's struggle against oppression, perhaps it is the civil rights movement, perhaps it can be seen as the feminist movement and so on.
or as i have outlined it can be the moral level: on which it is a story about jesus, his deeds, his life all of these type of things.

I realized that when we broke off and began focusing on our assigned schools of criticism, I and it would appear that many of us sort of forgot, or at least didn't relate any of our schools to the theory of symbols or the theory of myth, or any of the things that we learned earlier this semester, in retrospect i now see a deep connectivity that i had previous overlooked...