The Prison House of Ideology semiology and Interpretation of A Plant In Quarantine by Bijan Najdi Based on Ideology theory and power discourse

The interpretation and comprehension of a literary work based on sociological theories is a kind of combination of methods and approaches. Such an approach can unveil different aspects of a literary work and at the same time examines the validity of the theories. This article is a structural, semiological, and interpretative approach towards A Plant in Quarantine from the collection of short stories, The Leopards Who Have Run with Me, by Bijan Najdi based on theory of ideology and power discourse. First, we determined the meta-textual and textual signs and then all the signs were interpreted in the web of textual signification. Finally, the meaning-making codes were recognised according to theory of ideology (Marx, Althusser, and Zizek) and power discourse (Foucault). The overall aim of the article, apart from recognizing inter-textual aspects and narrative structures, decoding textual signs, and understanding the hidden textual structure of the story, is to determine the macro-metaphor which can function as a common nucleus for all the stories.The tenors of this metaphor are dominance of ideology and fancy of identity.