Free playing and deferring the meaning from texts or objects are the most obvious characteristics of deconstruction because “deconstruction eschews the concept of one possible meaning for a text, and instead suggested that meanings of a text are multiple and contradictory” (Ellis-Christensen, 2003). This idea can also be called revolutionist because it does not have a fixed pattern to apply into texts or objects.
Yet the critic provisionally musters the metaphysical resources of criticism and performs what declares itself to be one (unitary) act of deconstruction. No text is ever fully deconstructing or deconstructed. The notion of deconstruction proposed by Derrida (1974) is that Deconstruction is a perpetually self-deconstructing movement that is inhabited by différance. Key-words: deconstruction, undecidable meaning, Spiderman, Green Goblinĭeconstruction has been a debatable criticism since late 1960s when it was first proposed in 1967 by Jacques Derrida in his influential book, Of Grammatology. Nevertheless, by using deconstructive reading strategy, the idea of Green Goblin will be dismantled and built again to find some undecidable meanings. Ignoring the motives or causes of being Green Goblin leads viewers to judge that he is a villain in New York City and must be eliminated. Green Goblin, in this particular movie, is always considered as a bad guy. The character of Green Goblin will be observed by using Propp’s Morphology of Folk Tale and later dismantled by deconstructive reading strategy. This article focuses on analyzing Green Goblin’s characterizations from the perspective of Deconstruction.
One and the first most successful film based on a comic book is Spiderman Movie I with the villain named Green Goblin. Analyzing movie is an important study to do as we can gain a lot of advantages from the movie such as ideas, concepts, and values of life. This article reviews on how deconstructive reading strategy plays an important role to reveal meanings in the movie that are tried to hide.