Signifier

In Hazel Carby’s critical essay, Slave and Mistress: Ideologies of Womanhood under Slavery, she begins by establishing her intent to specifically explore the antebellum period of the south, its effects on the public perception of the black woman in America, and especially public perception/ideologies of the black woman that stem from the mythical, the “cultural creation,” of the black woman, created by white population (Carby 20). She further establishes that this will involve investigating how…

I have chosen the poem The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost for my deconstruction essay. Deconstruction can be referred to the ‘theory used in the study of literature or philosophy which says that a piece of writing does not have just one meaning and that the meaning depends on the reader’ (Merriam-Webster, 2014). I chose this poem as it very popular and its basic meaning is very famous. The deconstruction of the poem may provide a very different meaning to each reader. Derrida said, ‘In a…

encompasses every use of a system where something (the sign) carries a meaning for someone”. Semiotics according to Ferdinand De Saussure refers to “The signs of life within society”. As said by Saussure, a sign contains two parts- the signifier and the signified. The signifier is the word that language provides and the signified on the other hand is the concept that the word provides. It could be different for different people. For example: The language…

of the narrative. The representation of the “horse-crazy girl” draws from gendered discourses about the role of care by providing female characters with something to unconditionally care for to reinforce the boundaries of appropriate femininity. It positions female characters to discover their value and self-worth, not through action, but through the provision of care. The result is that Bonnie and Sam’s characterisation as “horse-crazy” serves anchor them within discourses “of the domestic and…

In regards to gender, the “nature versus nurture” debate refers the opposition between a biologically-based conception and one grounded in social psychology. On the “nature” side, gender is a matter of a person 's physiological makeup. There are varying accounts of what body parts specifically are indicative of gender, with gonads, chromosomes, and reproductive organs being among the contenders for criterion of gender. Regardless, on this view gender and sex are correlated, and “male” and…

In this evaluation I will be looking at how semiotics, ideology and visual signifiers all link in to both media as well as our society as a whole, and how that has supported me in my journey of creating a truly gender neutral/non biased product packaging that is suitable and appealing towards my target audience. I have looked at a multitude of examples in my research that have shed light on why society has so many constricting boundaries, and how I needed to approach these issues with an outcome…

Proposed Introduction: In the novel Wide Sargasso Sea (WSS) author Jean Rhys offer the readers a piece of literature that demarcates - within the development of its characters, their narrational perspectives, and the tactful discursive constructions of the former and the latter- an evaluative analysis of western colonial ontology, its epistemological premises, and the experiences of subjectivities that are defined, and reproduced, by these ontological and epistemological formulations. Bertha…

Introduction: Trans as Dueling Definitions For a rather simple five-letter word, the prefix “trans” is given an awful lot of work to do. In current gender identity discussions and debates it is called upon as convenient shorthand to refer to the experience of living with/through a transcendent gender; any individual who identifies with that experience; a community comprised of such social actors; or any composite of these choices. Yet this pervasive Western liberal definition has not…

Introduction: The cinematic text of Sally Potter’s Orlando (1992) is one that places its viewers in a tactfully contrived and theatrically constructed domain: a domain that only becomes comprehensible to us through Orlando’s instances of self-reflexive narration, through the omniscient narrator that privileges Orlando’s narrative perspective, and through a camera lens that constructs and emphasizes Orlando’s body as the starting and focal point of that narrative. From this highly…

The repressed, irrational characteristics does return in modernity and is characterized by a return that simultaneously serves to benefit instrumental rationality through culture. The subject remains fundamentally passive; there remains nothing for the consumer to classify, since all classification is passed through the culture industry.26 Hit songs, stars, and soap operas recur cyclically and invariably, while even the particular or specific content is generated from these types.27 Implicit in…