Barthes was a french media theorist who was writing from the 1950s through to the 1970s. Barthes has unravelled or deconstructed a number of texts and came to the conclusion that texts may open (with numerous semiotic threads to pull) or closed, (with only one obvious thread to grasp). The most obvious aspect of enigma codes is that they are constructed primarily to attract and hold the attention of the audience want to see solved.
The five codes which are woven into any narrative are:
1. The Hermeneutic Code (action)
Is the story avoids telling the truth or revealing all the facts, in order to drop clues in through out to help create mystery.
2. The Engima Code (puzzle)
The way the tension is built up and the auidence is left guessing what happens next
3. The Symbolic Code
This is very similar to semantic but acts at a wider level, organising semantic meanings into broader and deeper sets of meaning. This is typically done in the use of antithesis, where new meaning arisis out of opposing and conflict ideas
4. The Semantic Code
The semanitc points to any element in a text that suggests a particular, often additional meaning by way of connotation which the story suggests.
5. The Cultural Code
Looks at the audience wider cultueral knowldge, morality and ideology.
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