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ANALYSIS OF PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS: THE LIGHTNING THIEF MOVIE (2010) USING FIVE CODES OF ROLAND BARTHES’ STRUCTURALISM Heny Wahyuti English Department, Bina Nusantara University, Jakarta JL. Citarum Atas No. 3D, Jakarta Pusat, Telepon: +6287780160399 Email: 1 Abstract The research will analyze Percy Jackson and The Olympians: The Lightning Thief movie directed by Chris Columbus based on Roland Barthes’ five codes. The research method used in the library research which qualitative research. In this paper, the main theory is the five codes in structuralism by Roland Barthes, but there are also characters and characterization, plot, and theme that will be interesting to analyze. The result shows that Percy Jackson and The Olympians: The Lightning Thief is rich with the five codes which are the proairetic code, hermeneutic code, cultural code, semic code, and symbolic code of Roland Barthes. Hopefully the readers will understand the meaning of the story, the characters, and the theory all about and also the readers become more interested in analyzing using structuralism theory of the five codes by Roland Barthes. (HW) Keywords: Barthes five codes, Characters & Characterization,Plot, and Theme. Abstrak Penelitian ini menjelaskan tentang film yang berjudul Percy Jackson and The Olympians: The Lightning Thief yang di sutradari oleh Chris Clumbus berdasarkan dengan teori lima kode dari Roland Barthes. Metode penelitian ini menggunakan buku dari perpustakaan atau penelitian secara kualitatif. Teori utama dalam penelitian ini adalah lima kode dalam strukturalisme dari Roland Barthes tetapi terdapat karakter dan karakterisasi, alur cerita, dan tema yang menarik untuk di analisa. Hasil dari penelitian menunjukan bahwa di film tersebut terdapat banyak lima kode diantaranya the proairetic code, hermeneutic code, cultural code, semic code, dan symbolic code. Semoga para pembaca akan memahami isi dari cerita, karakter, dan teori. Pembaca juga menjadi lebih tertarik untuk menganalisa karya sastra dengan menggunakan teorI strukturalisme lima kode dari Roland Barthes. (HW) 77 78 Kata kunci: Lima Kode dari Roland Barthes, Karakter dan Karakterisasi, Alur cerita, dan Tema INTRODUCTION Literature is the term used to describe written or spoken material. Literature is most commonly used to refer to works of the creative imagination, including works of poetry, drama, fiction, nonfiction, novel and movie. This thesis is going to analyze a movie entitled Analysis of Percy Jackson and The Olympians: The Lightning Thief Movie (2010) Using Five Codes Of Roland Barthes’ Structuralism. Percy Jackson and The Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010) is the film directed by Chris Joseph Columbus. He is an American famous film director, producer, and screenwriter. In Percy Jackson and The Olympians: The Lighting Thief, the writer is interested in a character in this movie, there is boy who fourteen years old, his name is Percy Jackson. He is a son of Poseidon, god of the seas but he never knows about his real father. One day, when he goes to museum of metropolitan of art, his teacher changes become a monster and asking to Percy gives the lightning bolt. He does not know anything and he gets confused why that monster asked him to give the lightning bolt? His best friend Grover said that he is a demigod and that he is his protector. His teacher Mr. Brunner gives him a pen and telling him that it is a powerful weapon. After he heard at all, surely he did not believe in what happened with himself. Percy and his mother have to go because it is very dangerous for Percy if they still stay. They go to the Camp half blood, the exactly place for human who has a half human and god blood or demigod like Percy. In the camp, Percy befriends the gorgeous Annabeth she is a daughter of Athena. Percy discovers that his mother is in the Underworld with Hades. Percy decides to travel on a dangerous quest to retrieve the lightning bolt and save his mother. His friends, Grover and Annabeth join him to help Percy to find the lightning and bring back his mother. In Percy Jackson movie, there are have two film series; the first film is Percy Jackson and the Olympians: the lightning thief and the second film is Percy Jackson: Sea of monster. Those films are also based on the book series that written by Rick Riordan which are Percy Jackson and the Olympians: the lightning thief movie. Percy Jackson: the sea of monster, Percy Jackson: the Titan’s curse, Percy Jackson: the Battle of the labyrinth, and Percy Jackson: the last Olympians. Those stories have taken based on the Greek Mythology. In the movie, they also tell about the three of Gods which are Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades so in the first film; Percy Jackson and the Olympians: the lightning thief movie is one of the beginning story, in the film tells about who is the character’s Percy Jackson and his close friends Annabeth Chase and Grover Underwood and what the relationship between Percy and the three of god? So the writer chose the first Percy Jackson film to more detail explanation than the second. Thus, the writer uses Structuralism theory, specifically five codes S/Z of Barthes, to analyze that character in this movie, like what the writer have explained above. Barry (1995: p.51) he clarifies the five codes by Roland Barthes are proairetic code (provides indication of actions), hermeneutic code (creates the question for the reader in their mind), cultural code (the common knowledge about the cultural society), semic code (it is called the connotative code or symbols that makes the story more interesting), and symbolic code (bring out contrast and pairings). To get the pattern of research, there are two previous researches that have been explored. The first research is about Five Codes of Roland Barthes in Tennesse Williams’ the Glass Menagerie: A Structuralism Analysis by Dwi Purwanti (2013). This research discuss about structuralism using the theory of the five codes by Roland Barthes. The problem formulation in this research is about How are the five codes by Roland Barthes applied to the Tennesse Williams’ the Glass Menagerie. The research is done qualitatively by utilizing library research. There are several books that are used as references in writing this paper. The play is chosen because it is rich of symbols, connotation meaning, culture, and binary opposition that may be open or unraveled in a lot of different ways in the story. Another reason this play is chosen because it presents how the American family struggle to face the Great Depression. The second research is about Structural Analysis of Up Movie by Pete Docter and Bob Peterson by Widyanto Gunadi (2014). This research discusses about the transformation stages of Up movie using the structuralism theory. The problem formulations in this research are How the transformation of the main character is analyzed through the structuralism theory, What messages are conveyed in the movie and how they are seen with the structuralism theory, How the main character transformation stages and the messages portrayed the condition of the society. The research is done qualitatively by utilizing library research. There are several books that are used as references in writing this journal. The movie is chosen because Up movie has several great 79 moral values or messages for the audience. The main character of the movie also depicts stages of transformation that maybe all of us have gone through in our life. The scope and limitation in this research is the researcher will use the literary criticism theory called the structuralism theory. The object of the research is the movie Up from pixar. The goal of the research is to see that the transformation of the character is something that is structural and cannot be understood in isolation as well as what moral values that that the movie tries to convey to the audience. And function in this research is the thesis will focus more on the transformation stages of the main character’s characteristics. The research also focus on finding out the messages of the movie analyzed using the structuralism theory mainly from Roland Barthes and Saussure. Based on two previous researches, a new research entitled “Analysis of Percy Jackson and The Olympians: The Lightning Thief Movie (2010) Using Five Codes Of Roland Barthes’ Structuralism” is developed. The significance of this research will be focus on the plot of Roland Barthes’ five codes that are included in structuralism theory, which are the proairetic code, the hermeneutic code, the cultural code, the semic code, and the symbolic (binary) code. The method that would be taken is library research and qualitative method. To make accurate data, the research uses the theories from books, internet, article, journal, and the other resources related to the topic. RESEARCH METHODS In this chapter, the research will explain how to get the data and how to analyze collected data for this research. In analyzing literary work, there are a lot of media that can be used as the main source. The media can be in form of novels, drama, songs, poems, and film. This paper is The Percy Jackson and The Olympians: The Lightning Thief movie in this paper is going to be analyzed based on Roland Barthes’ five codes that are included in structuralism theories. Moreover, the analysis will be focused on the plot, characters and characterization, theme and also the structuralism approach of the movie. In this case, there are several books and journal or articles that are used in this paper to support the analysis which are Beginning theory: An introduction to Literary and cultural theory and Perrine’s Literature: Structure, sound, and sense, Literature reading fiction, poetry, and some other books. Not only books, but the writer will also use journals, articles, and the internet research to ease in finding the references and the best theory that suitable with this research. There are several steps that are needed to be done in collecting the data. The first steps, the research find a topic that want to be analyzed. For instance, in this research has the topic Analysis of Percy Jackson and The Olympians: The Lightning Thief Movie (2010) Using Five Codes Of Roland Barthes’ Structuralism. Then the second steps, after the previous research already done, there are use for several media that related to the topic and finally chooses Percy Jackson and The Olympians: The lightening thief movie as the medium to analyzed. The third step, watches this movie five times to understand the storyline well. The fourth steps, there is also emphasizes the analysis on the character & characterizations, plot and theme. After that, there will conducts library research to find out the theories of characters & characterization, plot and theme. The fifth steps, there are also looks for a literary criticism theory that matches with this movie. Then, the structuralism theory using the five codes by Barthes’ in S/Z is chosen to be the main theory analysis part. Sixth steps, downloads the subtitles that can be used as the samples. And the last steps, there is also does screen shoots from film that match to the theory. ANALYSIS This chapter is going to discuss four elements of fiction and structuralism by Roland Barthes. This paper will analyze character and characterization to get the role of the character in Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief. In the movie, he is a handsome young boy, has a good personality, strong, brave, honest, friendly, and he really loves his mom; Sally Jackson. Percy Jackson is the young boy, he is fourteen years old and he is the son of Poseidon, the god of the sea so he is called half god and half human or is known as demigod. Since he was a kid until teenager, he never knew that he is a demigod who significantly has strong power actually in the water so he can survive under water without breathing for a long time, he thinks that there is one place that he can think. He also has dyslexia ADHD who can read the Greek ancient. His power is not like a normal human being but he never realized about everything what has happened to him. He was treated by his mother and his stepfather. He only lives with his mom, and her name is Sally Jackson who always takes care of him but his step father, whose name is Gabe Ugliano who is always rude to him and his mother so he never like his step father and he feels curious why his mom can live with him and waste her whole life with him. Besides, he does not give up easily to face the dangerous challenge in the movie. The 80 second character is Poseidon, he has good character; he is a God of the sea. He is known as a more powerful God than the other Gods. He has wife from normal human being namely Sally Jackson and they have a son; namely Percy Jackson. He is very strong and he has a power from the sea. He also has two brothers such as; Zeus and Hades. He also obey the rules that Zeus made, one of the rules is all gods including Poseidon. They are forbidden to see their kids for any reason. Therefore, he never meets Percy Jackson because he is always keeping his promise and he never want to break his brother, Zeus’ rules. The third character is Annabet Chase, she is a pretty girl, not only does she have beautiful face, but she also has beautiful eyes, she also has good personality, she is a brave, good fighter, smart, and she is never scared of anything. Next character is Grover Underwood, he is a half goat and a half human. He has the upper body of a human and the legs and horns of a goat and he uses fake feet when he wants to look like a human being. Grover is not only his best friend but he is also the protector for Percy Jackson in Camp Half-Blood. Next character is Hades, he has bad characteristics; he is cruel, selfish, and a vengeful. He also uses his power to commit revenge to his brothers; Zeus and Poseidon and he wants to destroy the Olympus if he gets Zeus’ Lightning bolt. Next, Zeus Zeus is the god of the lightning. He has a super power than the other gods. His power is the lightning bolt and he is also the King of the Gods. her character is a strong woman because she raises her son without a father and she was married to a god of the sea, Poseidon. Next, Chiron He has good personality and his character is calm and he is always protecting Percy because he is Poseidon’s friend. Last character is Luke Castellen, he has a good personality and he is also good leader for the blue soldiers’ team but in the in the end of story, he changes into bad person even he actually steal the lightning bolt belonging to Zeus not Percy Jackson so in the movie, he is an antagonist character. Plot of Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief are divided into five parts which are exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. First, the exposition of the film is Percy Jackson who is is the son of Poseidon and his mother; Sally Jackson is the second character and she is just a normal human being. Percy lives with his mother and stepfather. Second, rising action when Percy and his friend go to the museum, he can read the Greek Ancient because he has dyslexia ADHD. At the museum Mrs. Dodds as his teacher change to becomes a monster and ask to Percy to give the lightning bolt. Third, climax is Percy assumed that his mother is gone, but Hades said his mother was still alive and she was sent to the Minotaur, she was here with me in underworld. After he knew that, he decided to go to the underworld to bring back his mother. But he was not alone, he with his best friend, Annabeth and Grover. Fourth, falling action is Percy and friends already complete three pearls to go in and out to the Underworld so they as soon as go to the Hollywood to see the Hades and bring back his mother. When Hades asked him to give the lightning bolt, Percy Jackson tried to tell him the truth that he did not have that things and he never knew about it. When Hades becomes angry because he did not bring back the lightning bolt and Percy met with his mother suddenly he saw it in the Percy’s shield. The last, Resolution is he gave it to Zeus soon and he explains that he is not the lightning thief but Luke, Son of Hermes. As a result, Percy succeed to get the lightning bolt and immediately bring it to Zeus before midnight, when he meet Zeus and he also meet with his father Poseidon. After analyzed the character and characterization and also plot, the research also discuss about the main theory which is the five codes of Roland Barthes’ Structuralism. The first proairetic code is when Mrs. Dodds as Percy’s lecture asks him to follow her into the empty room. Percy does not suspect his lecture; he just thinks that he makes the problem again. Suddenly, Mrs. Dodds becomes a Fury and attack Percy or the monster attacks Percy Jackson and asks him to give the lightning bolt. In this case, he should move to Camp half blood because the monsters have already found the son of Poseidon as known as the lightning thief of Zeus; the God of Thunder. The second proairetic code is Percy Jackson thinks that his mother has gone but Hades gives the hint that his mother is still alive. Percy who really loves her so he wants to safe and brings his mother back. In the film there are also have some scenes that categorize as the hermeneutic code. First hermeneutic code is When Percy asks his stepfather to give some respect to his mother and asks to his mom why she still wants to live with him? Sally Jackson only answers Percy’s question “he has been good to us, he also take good care to you”. Her answer really creates the question, it is not only Percy as the main character of the movie but also the audiences who watch this movie wonder why does she thinks that Gabe (his stepfather) is a good person. The main reason is Sally Jackson as Percy’s mother wants to keep and care of Percy Jackson from the fury who hunts him so his mother wants to live with Gabe whose his body smelled of alcohol so that it makes the fury cannot smell the blood of Percy Jackson. The next hermeneutic code is does Percy Jackson will be able to save his mother namely Sally Jackson? and the next question is does Hades will become a King of the gods in the Olympus?. 81 There are some scenes that categorize to the cultural code, The first Cultural code is the God of Zeus. In this section, this research will compare and pairing between Zeus based on the Greek Myths and Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The lightning Thief movie even though Zeus is not told clearly in this movie but the audience will know a little about the appearance and character of the god of thunder; Zeus. His appearance in this film is also having the similarity; he is strong and has a curly hair. In the Greek Mythology the symbols of Zeus were the scepter, the throne and the thunderbolt, which was as a gift from the Cyclopes because he liberated them. Zeus' tree was the oak tree and his sacred animal was the eagle. In the Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The lightning Thief movie, Zeus’ symbol is just a thunderbolt that becomes the main conflict of the story. Second is Poseidon, in this film Poseidon will become the main an important role, especially his power. The personality of Poseidon was considered to be the bad-tempered, moody and greedy god among the Olympians. Next is Hades. In the Greek Mythology Hades was the Greek god of the Dead, the appearances of Hades are cruel, evil, selfish, it is the same with the Greek mythology history about Hades appearance. His personality has the same with the Greek Mythology history, in this movie, he is also has beard and dark hair falling over his brow but there is no Helmet which always worn by him based on the Greek Mythology history. Last, Athena is the goddess of wisdom. The Greek Mythology told that Athena never married and had no children but in the film Athena has a daughter namely Annabeth Chase. She also has a beautiful face and her eyes like her mother; Athena. She has beautiful face, blue eyes, and her body is slim, she wearing long dress and crown in her head. In Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The lightning Thief movie, there are meaningful symbols that refer to the semic code. First, the Lighting bolt is the main symbol of the film because it makes the main problem that Percy should face the monster Fury, Minotaur, and Hades to save his Mother and find out the lightning bolt even he does not steal it. Zeus’ lightning bolt becomes the main problem in this movie because the lightning bolt actually the symbol of the God of thunder, Zeus. It is powerful so that it will give the power and will harm anyone who got it therefore Zeus tries hard to get it back in order to endangering others. Second, water is one of the symbols that very important in the movie. Water is the symbol of the God of the seas, Poseidon beside that water is a symbol of life. All living things such as human being, plants, and animals need food besides also need water for their needs in survival. As the film Percy Jackson as a demigod also needs water for heals his injured and it also gives him the power. Third, they will start their adventure besides, they are collecting the pearls are not easy, they should face some obstacle, they should defeat them then they can get one by one pearls but they are only have seven days to get the pearls. It shows that the pearls are the important symbols in the movie because they should cooperate with each other to be able to face the obstacles in order to get the pearls even thought they are demigod who have a super power like their parents but they are still need help from the other. Fourth, the sword given by Mr. Brunner is very useful and helpful for Percy to defeat the monster is hunting him. It also become the important symbol in this movie because Percy Jackson is always using the sword to fight monster that hunts him to get the lightning bolt. It shows that the sword is a common symbol that refers to the King or Hero to give them a power and bravery to fight their enemies. Fifth, shield is the symbol that related to sword and has the similar function to protect him to the monster even though he is son of the God there are known as the stronger but he still need something to protect himself. The last, the map is also important symbol of this movie because it is very helpful for Percy and friends to get the pearls and get to the Underworld. The symbol shows that the map is directions to get to the destination quickly without waste of time. Besides, the map is become the best part of the film because they start to the adventure to get the pearls and they only have a limited time for finishing their adventure. The outside, they should be ready to face and fight to the other monster. It is very dangerous for them if they cannot be able to work together. Therefore they need bravery and cooperate with each other to get successful to collect the pearls. There are some scenes that are categorized into symbolic code in Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The lightning Thief movie. Symbolic code is the last code in the research. The first symbolic code is boy (Percy Jackson) and girl (Annabeth Chase), she is a beautiful girl who has boy characteristic such as strong, good fighter, smart, brave and she never feel afraid to fight the boys, she is always thinking that she is always win. In this film, she has an important role for Percy Jackson because it is not only her bravery but also her smartness that is very helpful for Percy Jackson to face the challenges to go to the Underworld to meet Hades and bring his Mother back. Annabeth and Percy were meeting each other for the first time. Annabeth was serious to do the fight practice and she even wants to kill Percy Jackson. Second symbolic code is god and demigod In the Olympus, Percy and Annabeth also meet with their parents that they never met before. When Annabeth met with her 82 Mother Athena, both of them look happy and her mother so proud of what she has done. Besides, Percy Jackson also met with his Father Poseidon but is not like Annabeth who feels happy to see her mother for the first time in her life. Percy looks unhappy and feels disappointed to him (his father) because he never came to see him (Percy Jackson). Moreover, based on the dialogue, Percy Jackson asks Zeus to bring Grover back from the underworld because they only got three pearls so that Grover should stay in the Underworld. Zeus is kind to grant Percy’s request to bring Grover back from the Underworld. It shows that, Zeus, the god of thunder has super power to make everything is easier. Last symbolic codes is good and evil, In the story of the film, the Camp Half Blood is the special place for special people, a half human and a half God or is known as demigod. Percy Jackson is a new comer in Camp Half Blood that hunted by monster and fury because he accused as the lightning thief belonging to Zeus therefore he brings to this place to protect himself from the monster. In this place, all demigods got practiced to fight and they learn to set strategy to defeat the enemy and also train their courage and their ability to fight. In the scene when Percy Jackson fights for the first time, he helped by Luke and he also gives the opportunity to Percy to get the flag. In this scene, it shows that Luke has good characteristic or protagonist character who will be a good friend with Percy Jackson. Other scene that shows Luke has good personality when Percy, Annabeth, and Grover decided to go to the Underworld to bring Percy’s mother back. Luke gives them his own stuffs such as flying shoes, maps, sword, and shield that are very useful for them and he also gives the information how the way to get in and out to the underworld. In case, the audience trusts that the character of Luke is very kindly to Percy Jackson. Compare to Luke Castellen who has bad characteristic in the other scene, In the scene, Percy, Annabeth and his mother have managed to get out the Underworld because they use the pearls that have collected before. After they found the lightning bolt from Luke’s shield and they immediately go to the Olympus before midnight but suddenly Luke appears as the antagonist side, he wears the flying shoes, he prevent them to go to the Olympus and he want to grab the bolt of Percy Jackson. In the first scene, he looks like a good boy because he always helps Percy and gives all the stuffs to Percy to face the dangerous out there but actually it is all just his strategy to bring the lightning bolt that in the shield to Hades. In fact, Luke helps Hades to destroy Olympus because they (Luke and Hades) have the similar reason. Hades want to get the bolt so that he can destroy the Olympus because he felt betrayed by his older brother Zeus and Poseidon since he had banished to live in the Underworld and he also envied his brothers who has super power and they always fortunate than him whereas Luke is mad at his father because he never come to see his son Luke and never know how his parents look. There is the one of the important in the elements of fiction which is theme. It related to the five codes of Roland Barthes’ structuralism especially in the semic code. In Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief movie there are some symbols that have a connotation meaning but there is also related to theme. The theme of the film is as the descendent of God, it does not mean that they have a super power like their parents. Besides, they are still young and have a long life so they have to learn how to get the super power like their parents. They also should face other dangerous obstacles to test their bravery, mental, and also their physic. Moreover, they also learn how to arrange the strategy to face and become a winner in every battle. In Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief movie, there some scenes to shows that they are the descendent of God or is known as demigod, they need each other like normal human being. In the semic codes which are lightning bolt, water, pearls, sword, shield, and map have one theme of the film. As the demigod, they should be brave and cooperation with each other to face the dangerous obstacle, they have to trust one another and they should arrange the strategies and also share many ideas how the way to get the resolve of problem. CONCLUSION After analyzing the characters and plot of Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The lightning Thief based on the five codes of Barthes’ structuralism, which are the proairetic code; the hermeneutic code; the cultural code; the semic code; and the symbolic code, there are several things that can be concluded. The conclusion is going to be explained in this chapter. The first code which is the proiretic code is the actions that connected to other action. This section, there are two scenes related to the proiretic code. First scene, Percy Jackson and his close friend namely Grover Underwood go to the museum to observe about the history of the Gods suddenly his lecture named Mrs. Dodds brings Percy to the empty room then she changes become a furry or a monster who attack Percy and asks him about give the lightning bolt. Percy looks frightened 83 and confused what has been done. In case Percy Jackson should move to the Camp Half Blood is place for a special person who have a special blood like Percy is known as Demigod, a half human and a half God. Second scene, Percy’s mother Sally Jackson was arrested by Hades in the Underworld and he threatens Percy Jackson. If he does not give the bolt, Hades will kill his mother therefore Percy will do anything to safe and bring her mother back. The second code which is the hermeneutic code is the actions that make the audience wonder about the action. There are three scenes related to the hermeneutic code. First scene, when Percy and his mother talked about his dyslexia suddenly his stepfather namely Gabe Ugliano come and asks his mother to take the beer to him. Percy who does not like with his attitude towards his mother, it makes Percy wonder why his mother still wanted to stay with him? it is not only Percy but the audience also feel wonder and want to watch the next story of the movie to find the reason about why Sally Jackson still wants to stay with a man who always treated her harsly?. The second scene, when Hades came to the Camp Half Blood and threat Percy about his mother then he decided to go to the Underworld with his close friends, Annabeth and Grover to safe his mother. In case, the audience wonder will Percy success to save and bring his mother back even though he does not have the lightning bolt?. The third scene, when Hades finally got the lightning bolt in Percy’s shield. This scene makes the audience curious will Hades become the King in the Olympus and will there be wars between the Gods?. The third code is the cultural code which is related to the common knowledge of culture society. In Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The lightning Thief movie there is reference to the Greek Mythology. Greek myths always refer to the twelve Gods of Mount Olympus the twelve chief gods, usually called the Olympians, were Zeus, Hera, Hephaestus, Athena, Apollo, Artemis, Ares, Aphrodite, Hestia, Hermes, Demeter, and Poseidon. There is only focusing on the big brothers; Zeus, Hades, and Poseidon were the most important gods of all. Zeus was the strongest and wisest of the three and ruled over the earth. Hades ruled the Underworld, the world of the dead. Poseidon ruled the seas. He was also the god of earthquakes and horses. Moreover, this movie also tells about Hermes as the messenger God and the Goddess’ Athena as a Goddess of wisdom. The first God is Zeus he is the god of Thunder. Based on the Greek Mythology, the characteristics of Zeus were carefree and loved to laugh out loud. He possessed the perfect knowledge and was just, merciful and wise. His appearance was strong and imposing, with long, oftentimes curly hair. The symbols of Zeus are the scepter, the throne, and the thunderbolt. It is similar to movie, his character is unpredictable, he is strong and he has curly hair but the symbols part is different, in the movie Zeus’ symbol is just the lightning bolt. The second God is Poseidon he is the god of the seas. Poseidon was the Greek god responsible for natural and supernatural mainly the ones associated to the sea world and was the savior of ships. The personality of Poseidon was considered to be the badtempered, moody and greedy god among the Olympians. The third God is Hades he is the God of Fire or Underworld. He had a dog with three heads which was named Cerberus. Appearance of Hades was he had gloomy features. He had a beard and dark hair falling over his brow. The Last God is Athena she is the Goddess of wisdom. Athena was the goddess who taught mankind various skills such as weaving and sewing to the women and agriculture and metallurgy to men. The appearances of Athena were tall, slim woman with bluish-green eyes trickling light, wearing a suit of amour and a golden helmet. The fourth code is the semic code. There are six symbols in the movie which can be categorized into semic code. First symbol is Lightning bolt it is become the main problem in the movie because it is actually the symbol of the God of thunder, Zeus. It has powerful so that it will give the power and will harm anyone who got it therefore Zeus tries hard to get it back in order to endangering others. Second symbol is the water it is the symbol of the God of the seas, Poseidon beside that water is a symbol of life. All living things such as human being, plants, and animals need food besides also need water for their needs in survival. Third symbol is the pearls it shows that they must cooperate to face the monsters in order to get the pearls in limited days. Forth symbol is sword it shows that the sword is a common symbol that refers to the King or Hero to give them a power and bravery to fight their enemies. Shield is related to sword and has the similar function to protect him to the monster .The last symbol is map it shows that is directions to get to the destination quickly without waste of time and the adventure. The fifth code is the symbolic or binary code which is about the binary polarities. There are four binary codes which are boy and girl (Percy Jackson as Son of Poseidon and Annabeth as Daughter of the Goddess Athena, God (Zeus, Posedion, Hades, and Athena) and demigod (Percy Jackson, Annabeth Chase, and Luke Castellen), good and evil (Luke Castellen). 84 Theme is the one of the important in the elements of fiction. It related to the five codes of Roland Barthes’ structuralism especially in the semic code. The theme of the film is as the descendent of God, it does not mean that they have a super power like their parents. Besides, they are still young and have a long life so they have to learn how to get the super power like their parents. They also should face other dangerous obstacles to test their bravery, mental, and also their physic. Moreover, they also learn how to arrange the strategy to face and become a winner in every battle. In Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief movie, there some scenes to shows that they are the descendent of God or is known as demigod, they need each other like normal human being. In the semic codes which are lightning bolt, water, pearls, sword, shield, and map have one theme of the film. 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