Structuralists Theory

Analyzing a story through the use of studying text and the structure of language, sometimes referred to as langue, to find the hidden meanings is called Structuralist Theorist. The types of plots and characters, an author uses can help these theorists by being compared and contrasted to not only things they’ve seen but popular culture they’ve written as well. Signifiers are symbols that mean something, while signifieds are what the symbols mean, a certain depiction of what is implied in the story. These symbols of course, are arbitrary, meaning they don’t represent what they usually mean in modern belief, they still allow a reader to determine these meanings by connecting them together. discovering a story’s genre and the culture and similar interests of the author can be done be done by not seeing the text as just words on a page but as hidden meanings found by analyzing stories and breaking them down to get a better understanding of our literature and why we love reading it through the asking of whether we’ve seen something like it before, where and why it’s important, how to tell when a symbol changes its meanings and why and how it relates to life in not just the author’s life but the reader as well. Structuralists theorist, Roland Barthes, believed many of the meanings that caused authors to create their pieces of literature are considered semiotics, due to authors who come from different cultures or are into different forms of media widely viewed in society, which can help them relate to readers with similar interests. Ferdinand de Saussure, another theorist of Structuralism, believes a story’s meaning is shown through a pattern of words easily tracked by the reader and that stories have signifiers and signifieds, which can be used by readers to interpret the messages of any author.