Levi Strauss' Binary Oppositions

Levi Strauss’ Binary Oppositions

Claude Levi’s observed were making sense of the world, people and events by seeing and using binary oppositions everywhere. The observed that narratives are organised around the conflict between such binary opposition’s examples such as:

Good V’s Evil

Black V’s White

Boy V’s Girl

Peace V’s War

Strong V’s Weak

Alive V’s Dead

Man V’s Nature

Human V’s Inhuman

Rational V’s Irrational

Man V’s Woman

East V’s West

Civilised V’s Savage

Empowered V’s Victim

Normal V’s Strange

Overground V’s Underground

There are ones that apply to our film AB Negative are:

Normal - Strange (7 girls/Surgeon)

Good - Evil (7 girls/Surgeon)

Overground —Underground (Abducted overground/kept underground)

Alive - Dead (7 girls Surgeon and Corpse)

Human - Inhuman (7 girls and Surgeon/Living Corpse)

Natural - Artificial (7 girls and Surgeon/Living Corpse)

Rational - Irrational 7 girls/Surgeon)

Young - Old (7 girls /Surgeon and Corpse)