The five codes-group

Barthes' Codes
Roland Barthes Five Codes That Are Written
Within Any Narratives.

Barthes’ Codes
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INSTRUCTOR: Ms. Oharrah Mae Bernardez
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ROLAND BARTHES
• BORN: NOVEMBER 12 1915,
CHERBOURG -OSTERVILLE,
FRANCE
• DIED: MARCH 26,1980,
PARIS, FRANCE

ROLAND BARTHES
• A PROLIFIC FRENCH LITERARY CRITIC WHOSE
ECLECTIC INTERESTS LED HIM TO WRITE ON
TOPICS AS DIVERSE AS PHOTOGRAPHY,
ADVERTISING, FILM, AND EVEN FASHION.
PRESENTED BY: Group 1 EDSENG 16 (Literary Criticism) E43- 7-8P MWF INSTRUCTOR:
Ms. Oharrah Mae Bernardez
• Barthes maintained a unique literary
philosophy and a vague, eccentric writing
style which was widely copied by writers
worldwide.

ROLAND BARTHES' FIVE CODES
• HE PROPOSED THAT THESE FIVE CODES
ARE THE UNDERLYING STRUCTURES OF
ALL NARRATIVE.
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Bernardez
• texts may be:
• “Open” (unraveled in a lot different
ways) or
• “Closed” (there is only one
obvious thread to pull on).

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• suggests that
there will always
be one or more of
the five codes that
will “unlock” the
meaning of the
text.

CODES THEORY
• DESCRIBES A TEXT AS: "A GALAXY OF
SIGNIFIERS, NOT A STRUCTURE OF
SIGNIFIES
• IT HAS NO BEGINNING
• IT IS REVERSIBLE
• WE GAIN ACCESS TO IT BY SEVERAL
ENTRANCES
• NONE OF WHICH CAN BE
AUTHORITATIVELY DECLARED TO BE THE
MAIN ONE
Bernardez

MEANING…
 THE TEXT IS LIKE A TANGLED BALL OF
THREADS
 WE CAN START BY LOOKING AT A
NARRATIVE IN ONE WAY, FROM ONE
VIEWPOINT, ONE SET OF PREVIOUS
EXPERIENCE, AND CREATE ONE
MEANING FOR THAT TEXT.
 YOU CAN CONTINUE BY UNRAVELLING
THE NARRATIVE FROM A DIFFERENT
ANGLE AND CREATE AN ENTIRELY
DIFFERENT MEANING.
PRESENTED BY: Group 1 EDSENG 16 (Literary Criticism) E43- 7-8P MWF INSTRUCTOR: Ms. Oharrah Mae Bernardez

Which Came First?
Enigma
• something or someone that
is puzzling or a riddle.

1.) Hermeneutic Code
(The Voice Of Truth)
• which governs the proposing,
sustaining, and resolution of
enigmas.
• the code of enigmas or
puzzle.

Hermeneutic Code
• refers to any element of the
story that is not fully explained
hence becomes a mystery to
the reader.

KATY PERRY – WIDE AWAKE
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Mae Bernardez
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Narrative Decoded
• why does it start with the ending of a song?
• strawberry
• suddenly moves from dressing room to weird
• child – young – innocent (why is there suddenly a child who’s
invisible in the mirror?)
• walls moving, floor giving way
• being pushed in wheelchair by child
• why is there magic elements, light
• people with bull heads confront them
Mae Bernardez

Mae Bernardez
• Prince – only after her because she’s famous
• Star comes out of chest
• Bull masks – mental aura – maybe guards
• End with another song
• Cat with crazy eyes – curiosity
• Based on Alice in Wonderland
• Why based in Labyrinth/Maze/hospital/on
shoot/dressing room/forest/garden
• Paparazzi other side of mirror – couldn’t see their faces.

2.) Semic Code
(The Voice Of The Person)
• Is The Code Of
Character.
• The Accumulation Of
Connotations.

Semic Code
•refers to connotations
within the story that
gives additional
meaning over the
basic denotative
meaning of the word.

Semic Code
• involves signs that suggest or
refer to additional meanings.
• is implemented through the
connotations that things have,
such as a character holding a
pen implies that he is going to
or have written.

3.) Symbolic Code
( The Voice Of The Symbol)
•refers to the symbolic antitheses
which are so prevalent in
classical literature.
• Binary oppositions or themes.

Symbolic Code
• It exercises opposites to
show a contrast and create
greater meaning, creating
tension, drama and
character development

4.) Proairetic Code (Voice Of Empirics)
•is the most basic of
the codes.
• the code of actions.
Bernardez

Proairetic Code
•also builds tension, referring to any other action
or event that indicates something else is going to
happen.
• an example of this is in the avengers when Loki
starts calling the hulk names making the
audience yearn for hulks reaction which was to
pummel him into the ground

Proairetic Code
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Hermeneutic & Proairetic
Barthes Describe Them As:
• “..dependent on... two sequential codes: the
revelation of truth and the coordination of
the actions represented: there is the same
constraint in the gradual order of melody
and in the equally gradual order of the
narrative sequence.”

5.) Cultural Code
(The Voice Of Science [Or Knowledge])
• though all codes are cultural we
reserve this designation for the
storehouse of knowledge we use
in interpreting everyday
experience.
PRESENTED BY: Group 1 EDSENG 16 (Literary Criticism) E43- 7-8P
MWF INSTRUCTOR: Ms. Oharrah Mae Bernardez

CULTURAL CODE
• this code refers to anything that
is founded on some kind of
canonical works that cannot be
challenged and is assumed to
be a foundation for truth.
• looks at the audience wider
cultural knowledge, morality and
ideology

Cultural Code
• typically this involves either science or
religion.
• the gnomic code is a cultural code
that particularly refers to sayings,
proverbs, clichés, and other common
meaning-giving word sets.
Mae Bernardez

Cultural Code
• the reader focuses on the
physical, physiological, medical,
psychological, literary and
historical properties of
characters of the story to identify
a common knowledge

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