!6
="ting of time. Once an tdrotogy is
oonslrocred hy a
society in
a
certai.11 time,
it
can be
cha.'1gad or deoonslroctad by the society itself. Therefore, to
deconstrru::t
mel!ns
to take
apart or to undo in
order to seek out the meaning of a text, as Derrida stated:
...deoons!ruction works
to
ur,do
the
idea-=rding
ro
Derrlda,
the
ruling illusion of
Western
rnetaphysics--tb.at
reason
can somehow
dispense
with
language
10rrive at
a
pure,
se!f-authenlieating
truth or method Though
pl>Jlosophy strives
ro
effure its
textual
or 'written'
character, the signs of that
struggle are there to be read in
its
blinds-spots of metaphor and
oilier
rhetorical
s(rnl;egies.(Norris, 1991;
19)
the Derrida's s!;atement it
is
iamwn
t.i!at dxon;;truction is the way of !ext or words
to
undo a
particular klooiogy in
a
certain era or
ti'Ue. The decons!mction of a
particular
idea is
usually
\Witten in
metaphor and other rhetorical ways.
Like Derrida, Foucault is known as !1111i-esset tia11st The
ideology
collSiroctod by
the
society
is
based
on
who
can
speak,
when
and
where
(Barker,
2000:
79).
As
tho
exa;npte of
trurt
statement
is
about
l:mmosexwlity. The
heterosexuality
as ooe who
can
speak
ar
label
homnsexua!win
construct
the
ideology
of
homosexual
as
abnonna!
or
i.'Tlmornl because
heterose:;rual has
the
power
to
construct that
ideology
while
homosexuals c:mnot fight against tt'1em
reality" Therefore, they figr.t using literature as
concerning with this ideology.
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