Semiotic Notes & Burn The Witch Representations

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Semiotics:

THREE STAGES
FIRST STAGE: Signifier, what they mean.
SECOND STAGE: Connotation, what meanings do we bring to that
FINAL STAGE: Myth, the stories that we tell around it.


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