myth
...th a metalanguage. The sign from the first system becomes the signifier in the second. This was essential for Barthes, because he used it to explain myth on a different level to actual language or speech. He called the language used in myth, language- object and the myth itself is a metalanguage. What we see happening in myth then is that the signifier in the first order becomes a second sign. Barthes theory allows one to reveal the meaning behind a myth by just finding the universal sign, instead of focusing on just the linguistic format. Levi- Strauss believes that myth and science are connected, but we must look at how things work together and stop treating them as opposites. It is very easy to look at myths in dualistic terms, but the problem with that is there is a third element taking place. Many times we cannot see it, but it is there and things that appear to be opposites are actually connected to each other. Levi- Strauss looks at myths in the dialectical perspective, the objects are not isolated instead they are always in relation to each other. He was also interested in finding the similarities between different cultural myths; therefore he treated them as structures instead of looking at there content, which you can sometimes get lost in. By looking at myth as a structure we are able to compare different myths from all over the globe and find their resemblances. He argues that myth is language, because it is needed to be told in order to survive. Levi- Strauss used Saussure’s methods of langue and parole, but said that unlike language myth can be reshuffled or translated many times and it will always have its same fundamental shape and structure. He implemented the idea that langue and parole work on a time scale and even th...