Binary Opposites.

For my homework I watched a clip from the Disney film 'Sleeping Beauty'.  From this I found some Binary opposites:

·         Female-Male

·         Wealth-Poor

·         Good-Evil

·         Life-Death

·         Magic-Real

·         Prince-Princess

·         Young-Old

·         Pretty-Ugly

These binary opposites stand for ideologies on goodness, beauty and class. This has taught me that because of society certain words like ‘Good’ depend on their opposite ‘Evil’ to help us understand the true meaning. The meaning of a word is dependent on its meaning.

For example:

Good/Evil is shown when the evil witch Maleficent makes Princess Aurora touch the spindle of a spinning wheel.

From this I learnt that Binary Opposites help understand the meanings of words. For example we know hot is hot because of cold.