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Three ways of reading The Bloody Chamber In order to look at The Bloody Chamber as a set of interlinked stories which can be read in a variety of ways, I propose to use the ideas about language and myth as semiological systems that Barthes expounds in Mythologies. A brief account of Barthes views is therefore necessary. Barthes, following Saussure, looks upon a story as comprising a semiological structure, with three terms - signifier, signified and sign. The signifier is the linguistic unit: word, sentence, story. The signified is the thing the signifier refers to, object, thought, concept. The sign is the unity that the signified and signifier constitute for us. Barthes gives the example of someone giving a bunch of roses as a token of their affection to someone. The roses are the signifier, the signified is their passion, and the sign is the unity of signifier and signified,...

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