Semiotics

 1) What meanings are the audience encouraged to take about the two main characters from the opening of the film?

From whats displayed from the opening of the film, the audience are encouraged to take/view that the main characters are abnormal and somewhat trouble makers due to there lack of communication verbally as they annoy a homeless man but lack a substantial response from when he confronts them.

2) How does the end of the film emphasise de Saussure’s belief that signs are polysemic – open to interpretation or more than one meaning?

De saussure's belief is emphasised at the end of the film due to us (the audience) finding out that both the main characters are actually death in which explains their previous actions and behaviours that made it seem like they were misbehaving teens. Therefore this portrays de Saussure's belief  as the polysemic meaning is people don't think before they speak.

1) What did Ferdinand de Saussure suggest are the two parts that make up a sign?

 a sign is composed of the signifier (signifiant), and the signified (signifié).

2) What does ‘polysemy’ mean?

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2. the coexistence of many possible meanings for a word or phrase.

3) What does Barthes mean when he suggests signs can become ‘naturalised’?

Mythology and Naturalisation. Barthes claims that dominant institutions lull us into the belief that the current system is natural. It portrays the way things are as natural and eternal. It also portrays conventional, 'common sense' ways of viewing things as natural and obvious.

4) What are Barthes’ 5 narrative codes?

hermeneutic code, proairetic code, cultural code, connotative code, and symbolic code.

5) How does the writer suggest Russian Doll (Netflix) uses narrative codes?

the title is a symbolic code as the dolls get smaller and smaller each time their life resets.