The number 280 of the comic Dylan Dog, written by and named after Robert Recchioni Mater Morbi has resulted because of the topic, a series of controversies which have seen even the protagonists of politics and Italian institutions. Without going on the story of "gossip" as we like to point out the work, imparted valuable and effective, it is based, as always happens in these cases, based on communication models such as model actantial, the square semiotic, rhetorical figures and archetypes, which give, when used as well in this case, excellent results.
The plot itself is engaging and the topic was so delicate and energetic.
do not know if the author has deliberately used the models of communication specifications, or if they just guessed. The fact is that the work contains the following structures semiotic-narrative:
symbols, icons and indexes (with the production of allegories and metaphors)
See http://polisemantica.blogspot.com/2006/06/ signs-symbols-icons-and-indici.html
Morbi addition to the same matter, a symbol of the disease, we find the tree penalties in the garden of consumption, the symbols of the patient's pain, in addition to the reign of Mater Morbi, with the symbols of diseases represented by instruments of torture and his sons, the terrible torments, symbols of the penis which the patient is subjected daily. All of these symbols, coordinated to form an allegory of the disease.
As for the icons, each character is represented function icon (the doctor, the sick, the visiting relatives, etc.) and at the same time becomes a metaphor for medicine, illness suffered directly or indirectly) in relation to
indices are therapeutic or surgical instruments, which indicate that we are dealing with sick or treatment centers, and signs on the body of the sick (eye, wounds, blood)
Models actantial
See http://polisemantica.blogspot.com/2008/10/tex-dylan-dog-martin-myster -and-the-altri.html
actantial model we have already spoken on several occasions ... In this case we find more than one. We model
subject Dylan Dog
object become
opponent disease (symbolized by Mater)
aide medicine
sender Mater Morbi
recipient Dylan
or
subject Mater Morbi
oggetto avere amore e sconfiggere solitudine
aiutante i malati
opponente i medici
destinante Mater Morbi
destinatario Mater Morbi
Quadrati semiotici
cfr http://polisemantica.blogspot.com/2006/10/i-post-dello-spot-5-e-ultima-parte.html
Anche di questi modelli comunicativi ne abbiamo molteplici. Per esempio:
SALUTE dott. Vonnegut
MALATTIA Mater Morbi
NON MALATTIA Dylan Dog
NON SALUTE Vincent
oppure
VIVO Dylan
MORTO Vincent
NON VIVO dott. Vonnegut
NON MORTO Mater Morbi
archetypal patterns
See http://polisemantica.blogspot.com/2008/06/larchetipo-assoluto.html
Everyone orphans, as they have lost something that relentlessly chase (the sick and Dylan Health, Mater Morbi and love the company, Vincent's life, doctors hope)
In addition remember that Dylan is the archetype of the wanderer and, once healed, of 'innocent .
Vincent seems the perfect archetype of 'orphan , but is actually a innocent, as he decided to live her life to tolerate the disease and taking everything that the existence of beauty to offer, without too much regret.
We can not help but congratulate this writer for his ability to use knowledge in an artistic and creative, thanks to his talent, the tools that always provides the semiotics of art and communication.
