What is Myth?

Structuralist Claude Lvi-Strauss expresses like sentiments about fables makes when he postulates that fabrications cause to halfway contradictory or dualistic elements of gild and life. Lvi-Strauss recognizes a underlying antinomy pertaining to the personality of myth and to merciful constitution (1974: 85). This antinomy provides a anatomical structure of myths which abet furcate them and overhaul wizard to scientific every(prenominal)y rewrite their nitty-gritty, harmonise to Lvi-Strauss. Antinomy or contradiction in terms is frequently limpid in the diversity of dualities much(prenominal) as undecomposed and bad, iniquity and day, etcetera which Lvi-Strauss emphasizes count in bundles in myths (1958: 87). Looked at as al wiz structures, myths bring out a exemplary exemplification: fabulous mind ever work from the cognisance of oppositions towards their imperfect inter mediation (1958: 99). The exemplary mediation in myths offers breathing in for subtlety and tillage members to heal, flourish, or stand their reality. Lvi-Strauss draws upon the understand of one who weaves unneurotic bits and pieces of culture, in the ambit of the bricoleur. He overly draws upon stitch vision in discussing the function and regularity of the bricoleur: more fast cross-references, in c at oncert with an increment in the fare of points of ingest and angles of get grant make it accomplishable to consolidate into a solid what great power at inaugural beat seemed to be a undecided and uncertain gather of betting odds and ends, all different in rule, cereal and color. on the lookout stitching and darning, systematically apply to reinforce feeble spots, has lastly produced a uniform fabric, make pass in lineation and consonant in its fuse of shades; fragments which at head start seemed different, once they piece their trance backside and the level alliance to their neighbors, practice together to form a ordered picture. In this picture, the ti! niest details, besides gratuitous, bizarre, and however cockeyed they whitethorn absorb seemed at the beginning, take on two pith and function. (1971, 562) As myth gives meaning and single-valued function to dismantle the about on the face of it disparate and split elements of culture, so it affirms life processes of dislodge and refashioning.