(The Turkish Online Journal of Design, Art and Communication, 2013-01) Baloğlu, Uğur
The analysis of semiology has been previously used in only linguistic analysis but in time it
was started to be used to analyse in different ares such as cinema, music, advertising poster
etc. In this article, Algirdas Julien Greimas’s the actantial model and narrative curriculum will
be discussed who was inspired by narrative science of Vladimir Propp in respect to the
structuralism and making up his own analysis method. Considering these facts, William
Shakespeare’s play ‘Hamlet’ adaptation is going to be analyzed according to A.J. Greimas’s
actantial model.
