Filmsel anlatıda hayvan söylenleri: Harry Potter'da Zümrüdüanka

Abstract

Human beings have shared the environment they live in with the other means of livings such as animals and plants. They have been in relationship with these various types of living beings either directly or indirectly willingly or unwillingly their life long. This humanly characteristics has never disappeared in this evolution process of the human being. Animals, in myths composed by humans have taken a more effective role than plants. Some animals have often taken place in these myths as commonly seen types and some animals have hold their own place obstinately in outstanding beliefs of the world without losing their fictional identities. In this work, as the legendary bird `Phoenix? has a centripetal importance, without taking a step into the semiotic analysis of the `Harry Potter and the Phoenix Companion?; the most important examples have been given about the animals seen mostly in theses dominant myths and the names, pronouns and semantically values of the Phoenix have been analyzed. The analysis of the Harry Potter and the Phoenix Companion which is named after the Phoenix that composes the movement axis of this work is based on the narrative film, properties and film narration codes. In this process of the narration, semiotic procedure of 3 well-known theorists such as Algidras Julien Greimas, Vladimir Propp and Charles Sanders Peirce?s is used. There are some results achieved while doing this study: While transferring the results after the analysis, the tertiary principle of Peirce is followed. Especially the analysis done according to the Propp approach, the film is put forth as a contemporary tale and while doing the narrative film, it is seen that, according to Propp?s 31 functions in the morphology of tales, almost all functions overlap. It is highlighted that Propp and Greimas? approach seem alike and that the semantic field of the legendary bird Phoenix and the concept `Death? and `Birth? reiterates in the process of `Life?. This, in a way, is the bird Phoenix itself which symbolizes the `Rebirth from its own ashes.