Mythology by Roland Barthes

Mythology by Roland Barthes

‘The Titanic is much more mythically significant than historically important’
Richard Howells, The Myth of the Titanic (Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2012), p. 1

Drawing upon FOUR separate Titanic commodities of your choice, explore their respective MYTHOLOGICAL dimensions. Be sure to frame your discussion theoretically by referring to the work of Roland Barthes’ notion of ‘mythology’. What, in your view, does each object have to say about the culture that produces and consumes it?

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