Analysis Of Barthe Five Codes Theory

A View Based on a Character’s Development in Pride and Prejudice Novel; An Analysis Based on Barthes’ Five Codes Theory

In accordance to our assignment we have read the novel Pride and Prejudice and came up with a theme that is suitable for it as well as analyzed it using one of Barthes’ codes. We aim to have a theme that could be easily understood and be able to describe what is contained in the novel even to the people who has not read the novel and for that we will be using M.H. Abrams’ Pragmatic Approach or Pragmatic Theory which focuses on how the element of the story we will be covering impacts the reader or what it teaches the reader. The major reason for the theme we picked is because the two most important or impactful characters in

Structuralism is a belief that everything has an underlying relations that connect with each other to form a coherent concept or a structure, while in a literary context it is a belief that every piece of text contains a structure and that everything that is written is governed by a specific set of rules which we learn about in educational institutions and is there to be unmasked for the reader to find out. While Barthes’ five codes are the five codes the Barthes argued as being interwoven and present in every narrative that can explain elements of the narrative, they are The Proairetic Code which provides indications of actions, The Hermeneutic Code which poses questions or enigmas which provide narrative suspense, The Cultural Code which contains references out beyond the text to what is regarded as common knowledge, The Semic Code which is also called the connotative code and is linked to theme and when organized around a particular proper name constitutes a 'character', The Symbolic Code which is also linked to theme, but on a larger scale, so to speak. It consists of contrasts and pairings related to the most basic binary polarities - male and female, night and day, good and evil, and so