The Analysis of Meaning Production in Gholamhossein Saedi’s ‘Aye Bikolah, Aye Bakolah’ Narrative Based on Algirdas Julien Greimas’ Semiotic Square and Jacques Fontanille’s The Tensive Model

This article aims at answering how meaning is produced in Gholamhossein Saedi’s ‘Aye Bikolah, Aye Bakolah’, which means Capital A and Lower-case A, and for this, Julien Greimas’ Semiotic Square and Jacques Fontanille’s Tensive Model have been used. The narrative of the play was analysed thoroughly, and two opposite concepts were derived from the text; namely, passivity and activity. Then, the Semiotic Square showed that there was a movement from passivity to non-passivity, but this never continued to activity. However, this does not show the meaning of the play completely. Since the themes of the play are not shown here, the play had to be analysed using the Tensive Model which illustrates more values in the text. Sleep was related to unawareness and awakening was related to awareness, and the values derived from them were worldly relaxation and enlightenment, respectively. The Tensive Model also showed that passivity led to unsafety and activity made a safer world. These are in close relation to the theme of the play which is showing the catastrophic consequences of being passive.