CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE

Detailed explanation-1: -According to Derrida (1976), small and marginalized things are important to be given meaning. Deconstruction is a method in reading text with use conceptual and differentiation. Through differentiation, there is a binary opposition which explains that each reading text has opposite but related meanings.

Detailed explanation-2: -What Is Binary Opposition? A light switch is either on or off; in a sports match, a team either wins or loses; water is either hot or cold; something in relation to something else can be left or right, up or down, in or out. These are opposites-concepts that can’t exist together.

Detailed explanation-3: -With his belief in structuralism, Levi-Strauss asserted that the human mind classifies things through binary opposition, the contrasts between two opposite things. It is this binary opposition that leads cultures to think in terms of good and bad.

Detailed explanation-4: -According to Saussure, binary opposition is. the means by which the units of language have value or meaning; each unit is defined in reciprocal determination with another term, as in binary code. It is not a contradictory relation but, a structural, complementary one (litencyc.com, 2005).