Here is my analysis of Structuralism

                         Structuralism and literary criticism this essay is given by Gerard Genette, who was french literary theory. he was highly concern with Narrative technique.There are many structuralist critics like, Ferdinand Saussure, Gerard Genette, Claude – Levi – Strauss, Roland Barthea etc.

                     We find basic common structure in every work. And literary work has also common structure like, Birth    – Marriage – Death. Here we find marriage is a climax. To understand structuralism we must understand the tree word sign, signifier and signified. ign, signifier and signified.

Sing – sound, Word 

Signifier – through sign meaning comes & image pop up in mind 

Signified - something already there

There are three fundamental assumptions are:
               
            1. Arbitrary

            2. Relational 

            3. Convent

 Here we find Gerard Genets Narratology includes many sub parts like,

                      1.      Order

                     2.       Duration

                     3.       Voice

                    4.        Mood

                    5.        Frequency

                     In film, any literary texts we find the basic structure, like any Gujarati, Hindi or English movie structure of movie we find love story is center.

Other Example:

                                                                                                                                                                                                       we find any literary text have same structure. As like, Gujarati novel ‘Malela Jiv’ and English as like, ‘Hamlet’

T.V. serial like, Crime patrol, CID, all have same structure in their every episode but they just do changes in representing the events.  

                   Another point Saussure discovered is that the meaning of a sign is arbitrary.  The same flower, say rose, has different names in different languages, but its qualities remain the same.  Saussure points out that a word assumes different meanings according to the particular structure in which it is a part.  When Yeats sings “Whenever green is found,” it means the Irish flag which is green in colour.  So the word ‘’green” represents patriotism.  .
 

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