One of the first things that always caught my attention with the concepts of deconstruction has to do with the representation of reality and truth through language. Since we have learned through Saussere's structuralist linguistics that the word as we know it is arbitrary and dependent on its meaning, how can we be assured that the meaning and contexts we use are the right ones to convey reality? This week's readings from Jacques Derrida, Jonathan Culler and others shed light on how the process of deconstruction works to identify the structural assumptions we make when deriving meaning, and how these can be exposed to through the deconstructive process to critically examine what represents experience and reality. One of the most interesting concepts is the "Chain of Signifiers", in which the signifier itself does not point to the signified or concept, but rather points to another set of signifiers, each of which points to another set of signifiers, to infinity. . It is this idea that "the word...never reaches the point where it refers to a signified" (Tyson 252) that positions language as non-referential, with no endgame where a signified is encountered and all the supplements brought by the signifiers are resolutions. There is no point where language “refers to the things of the world” (252), but rather relies on how we, through our own structures of meaning, perceive concepts. Each chain of signifiers depends on the structure which acts on the creation of meaning and experience, and no longer depends on the signified itself. For example, a text never reaches the point where it relays the disparate ideas that formulated the text in the author's mind - rather it is formulated from supplements that point to power...... middle of paper..... .tor like his father. In this case we can see not only was the creator unsupportive, but the entire immersive environment brought Victor to where he was at the end of the novel, driven by vengeance and hatred of his creation , which is actually a representation. of its own negligence on the part of its creators. Works Cited Bressler, Charles E. Literary Criticism: An Introduction to Theory and Practice. 5th ed. New York: Longman, 2011. Print. Culler, Jonathan. Literary Theory: A Very Brief Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. Print.Johnson, Barbara. “My monster/my self” Frankenstein. Ed. J. Paul Hunter. 1st ed. New York: Norton, 1996. Print. Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein. Ed. Paul Hunter. 2nd ed. New York: Norton, 2011. Print. Tyson, Lois. Critical Theory Today: A User-Friendly Guide. New York: Routledge, 2006. Print.