Abstract This article presents a comprehensive structuralist analysis of Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, focusing on the production of meaning through temporal fragmentation, symbolic coding, and narrative multiplicity. Drawing on structuralist and semiotic theory, the article argues that the novel constructs subjectivity not as a unified psychological entity but as a dispersed effect of linguistic […]

Abstract This article offers a sustained structuralist analysis of Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett, focusing on the collapse of referential meaning and the emergence of language as a self-referential system of signs. Drawing on the linguistic theory of Ferdinand de Saussure, the article argues that the play constructs meaning not through narrative progression or

Abstract This article undertakes a sustained structuralist analysis of Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, focusing on the production of meaning through binary oppositions and discursive systems of colonial modernity. Drawing on the structural anthropology of Claude Lévi-Strauss and linguistic theory of signification, the article argues that the novella constructs its narrative universe through unstable

Abstract This article presents a sustained structuralist analysis of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J K Rowling through the morphological model of narrative developed by Vladimir Propp. Rather than interpreting the novel as a modern fantasy narrative shaped by psychological realism or ideological allegory, this study approaches it as a structural continuation of

Abstract This article provides a detailed structuralist and semiotic analysis of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, using the narrative theory of Roland Barthes. It examines how meaning in the novel is generated through five narrative codes—hermeneutic, proairetic, semantic, symbolic, and cultural—and how these codes structure reader expectation, ideological interpretation, and character positioning. The article

Abstract This article provides a detailed structuralist analysis of Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, drawing primarily on the anthropological theory of Claude Lévi-Strauss. It argues that the novel’s narrative structure is organized through deep-seated binary oppositions such as tradition/modernity, order/chaos, masculinity/femininity, and indigenous/colonial epistemologies. These oppositions do not merely describe cultural conflict but constitute

Abstract This article provides a comprehensive structuralist analysis of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, focusing on the operation of sign systems, linguistic mediation, and class-based symbolic structures. Drawing primarily on the linguistic theory of Ferdinand de Saussure, and extending into semiotics and narrative theory, the article argues that identity, desire, and social meaning

Abstract This article offers a comprehensive structuralist analysis of Oedipus Rex, drawing upon the linguistic and anthropological frameworks of Ferdinand de Saussure and Claude Lévi-Strauss. It argues that the play derives its meaning not from individual character psychology or authorial intention, but from an underlying system of binary oppositions—knowledge/ignorance, sight/blindness, fate/free will, purity/pollution, and kinship

Abstract This article develops a Lacanian reading of Beloved by Toni Morrison, focusing on the eruption of the Real and its disruptive effects on narrative, subjectivity, and memory. Drawing on the psychoanalytic framework of Jacques Lacan—particularly the triadic structure of the Imaginary, Symbolic, and Real—the essay argues that Morrison’s novel stages trauma as that which

Abstract This article offers a Lacanian reading of Othello by William Shakespeare, focusing on the structuring role of lack, desire, and the objet petit a in Othello’s relationship with Desdemona. Drawing on the psychoanalytic theory of Jacques Lacan, the essay argues that Othello’s love is not grounded in the stable presence of Desdemona as a