Abstract
Like a number of other stories of Dubliners,Two Gallants because of it coded polyphony is debatable on the level of significance. It seems that the story strategically convey some crucial information to the reader by deciphering its symbolic codes. Accordingly, this study in accord with Roland Barthes semiology and specified codes in S/Z makes an attempt to explicate the symbolic codes and structural components that carry an invisible message of James Joycs Two Gallants.
Highlights
Semiology is the general science of signs
With the help of the first lines of Dubliners where the word paralysis sounds strangely to the little boy, the name of paralysis can appropriately be allocated to this symbolic code: "Paralysis is the inability of physical movement, but it is a spiritual, social, cultural, political, and historical malaise" (Bulson, 2006, P. 36)
The lamp that represents a romantic luminosity at the beginning becomes a manifestation of excruciating realism at the end, and divulges the greed, hypocrisy and disgracefulness, the main ideas of the subsequent story of Dubliners, “The Boarding House.”. All of these ambivalent, antithetic lexias become signs which authenticate and lead to the symbolic code of “simony.” The word “simony,” that to accompaniment of “paralysis” appears in the first lines of Dubliners, in Catholicism stands for the act of buying or selling ecclesiastical services, but it connotes the dehumanizing or debasement of love, religion, and the intellect
Summary
Semiology is the general science of signs. Barthes advocates semiology for its explanatory energy and power of estrangement, the power that coerces one into looking closely at what goes without saying and to make explicit what one implicitly knows. In order to elucidate the symbolic codes and examine the antithetical nature of “Two Gallants” the concept of polarity is helpful. “negative polarity is a formally marked category in the sense that negatives are typically formed by adding linguistic material to their positive counterparts” 1936) one of the founders of functionalism in linguistics distinguishes three general categories of negatives: “syntactic negation, morphological negation, and inherent negation” According to semiotic studies, recognizing and deciphering symbolic codes entails decoding antitheses or negative polarities. This research according to the applied methodology in S/Z divides the text of “Two Gallants” into several lexias in order to identify and decipher its symbolic codes
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