Blog on Structuralism

Hey friends,
This blog is a part of my classroom activity. If I were a structuralist how would I analyse a piece of literature or art.     

Structuralism is a method of interpretation and analysis of every aspect of human behavior and culture. In literature, we have also the method of Structuralism to interpret the text with various perspectives.Structuralism is related with the structure of the novel, video, serial, etc. But main thing is that we must have to focus on the structure. Structuralist critics like Ferdinand Saussure, Gerard Genette , Roland Barthes, Claude Levi-Strauss etc ., gave their immense contribution in this approach.

Using the Saussurian linguistic model, Claude Levi-Strauss says:-

"a girl and a boy fall in love (a "formula" with a symbolic operator between them would be "Boy + Girl") despite the fact that they belong to two groups that hate each other ("Boy's Group - Girl's Group" or "Opposing forces") and conflict is resolved by their death.

The versatility of structuralism is such that a literary critic could make the same claim about a story of two friendly families ("Boy's Family + Girl's Family") that arrange a marriage between their children despite the fact that the children hate each other ("Boy - Girl") and then the children commit suicide to escape the arranged marriage; the justification is that the second story's structure is an 'inversion' of the first story's structure: the relationship between the values of love and the two pairs of parties involved have been reversed."

Using this approach I would like to analyse this particular image.

Here I have selected one video here which is very famous but it is large so I can't put it here. So this is just  an image

In this video we can see the story related with as usual in many literature and movies like Romeo and Juliet and Ishqzade, Raam-Leela,Ek Duje ke Liye etc. As same in this video also story is like same that in the end lovers committed suicide. And also we can see duration that many years passes in one line. So that thing also we can see in this video. we can say that all the love stories mostly have the similar structure but the style of presenting these stories is different.