Critical theory cogitates pondering of social issues affecting power structure, discrimination and oppression as poignant themes affecting individuals as emancipatory gestures from the many forms of social maladies. While many societies have experienced material gains in capitalistic productions providing personal and institutional gains serving the upper echelons in society, critical theory espouses the need to ponder depth of human suffering in the face of advancement. In explicating such paradoxical truth, art as an ideology becomes a catalyst for change and a symbol of enlightenment because it mirrors the ills of its creator, the artist, as one views the society while providing artistic relief. However, while meanings intended by the artist can be definite, many forms of associations come about in a reader?s mind forming complex layers of meanings creating more meanings including destruction of meanings as celebrated acts of self-expression.

Keywords: critical communication; critical theory; feminism; postmodernism