Strauss argued that narrative (he called it 'Myth') has two main characteristics. They were:
1. That it's made of units that are put together according to certain rules.
2. That these units from relations with each other, based on binary pairs or opposites, which provide the basis of the structure.
The idea of opposition that he proposing roughly works out something like this;we often understand a concept by knowing what it isn't. This, he said, meant that in texts we had direct opposites that reflected differing ideas in narratives (and thus, texts.) These opposites were often in conflict in thr narrative and that was where the crux of the story of the story or the crisis of the narratives lay.
ROLAND BARTHES: FIVE CODES:
Emigma Code
Action Code
Semiotic Code
Cultural Code
Symbolic Code
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