Why Disney characters wear white gloves? | Reper
As children, we grow with comics. Among them a special place in comics had characters of Walt Disney. In the early childhood years, we met through Serbian editions of "Mikijev zabavnik" and "Politikin zabavnik". eloma Think of those characters we've met under the names - Paja Pathak (later eloma translated here as Donald Duck, original Donald Duck), Paata (original Daisy Duck), Shiljo (Goofy), Baia Pathak (Uncle Scrooge), and of course , gives us the inevitable chromium (Pete), who will name further as Lame or Pete. They were our favorite comics reading. Unfortunately, due to my ignorance, do not know Macedonian names, nor will it exist today in Macedonian version.
In all this company, which appeared together in stories of comics, was a conspicuous detail that then do not pay any other semiotic significance apart - graphically. Question, namely, what they wore heroes - white gloves. The fact that only Pluto (the dog with incredibly long ears needle) wore these gloves, but you are free to see his paws, interpreted as a marker to distinguish between animals and humans. Namely, eloma it was clear that all the characters eloma except Pluto were antropomorfizirani and the first and unwritten convention of comics - to consider them for people.
Accordingly, these white gloves viewed from a semiotic point of view, were simple conventional sign - a sign that you need to separate "people" of wildlife. Beautiful illustration of the conventional notion of semiotic sign of this will not - agree to our white glove means a person, even if it bear Mouse, Duck, Dog (Shiljo, according to the interpretations of Disney is still a dog, although the degree of intelligence and therefore look like a donkey) or cat (or Lame Pete gives us a cat, though, according to the stories of Disney, was initially conceived as a bear).
But even then, as children (they live chats remember), I feel that behind that sign must be hiding some other meaning. In more semiotic vocabulary, I feel that it is not entirely conventional sign, but you must have your analoshka side, that is motivated sign, symbol for something. Of course, in those childhood years we do not know these terms, but remember that most of us behind those white gloves searched for "something eloma else" as interpreters of poetry behind the common raven in the poem by Edgar Allan Poe seeking "surplus meaning" , some amigvitet. Someone claimed that such magicians wear gloves (which eloma was true and we knew from television shows such miracle) and that these characters should probably be seen as a kind of David Copperfield. But if it was really so, then why, when Mickey would spoil his car, had to call Shiljo or Donald to help him? Why with some trick did not fix the car? Another one of the company argued that such surgeons wear white gloves, but we all agreed that such an interpretation is completely unacceptable - none of the characters of Disney have no experience with surgical scalpel in any comic.
This interpretation clearly indicate that Jonathan Kaler and often repeated, namely - that no matter how things are relative, all interpretations of some semiotic design or character is equally valid. I remember another interpretation - a clever boy, prone to pragmatism (later became eloma a lawyer and now has his own law office) told us not to philosophize, but to realize eloma that they are gloves made of the claws of the characters just do not see their animal, or to "hide grozotijata". This interpretation was closer to what today seems acceptable - that it is a conventional eloma sign, plain marker that separates the world of the "people" of the animal world. People sometimes wear gloves, animal never was this point that semiotic pragmatism (now I know it's called hermogenizam, under the name of Hermogen in Plato's dialogue "Kratil" - something already discussed in the first part of the book). However, me and a few other loyal fans of Disney World, this explanation does not satisfy me. The problem was that "people sometimes wear gloves." Sometimes, but not always. Why then all antropomorfizirani Disney characters always wear?
The answer to that question must wait until my graduate studies in Zagreb, when I first started to systematically deal with semiotics. Right said, totally forgot about that issue, until I started to slowly get into the secrets of labeling and until I touched the issue of collective symbols (see metaphor in the first part of the book). Then I realized that collective symbols are studied in some semantic-civilization and mythological contexts - Christian
As children, we grow with comics. Among them a special place in comics had characters of Walt Disney. In the early childhood years, we met through Serbian editions of "Mikijev zabavnik" and "Politikin zabavnik". eloma Think of those characters we've met under the names - Paja Pathak (later eloma translated here as Donald Duck, original Donald Duck), Paata (original Daisy Duck), Shiljo (Goofy), Baia Pathak (Uncle Scrooge), and of course , gives us the inevitable chromium (Pete), who will name further as Lame or Pete. They were our favorite comics reading. Unfortunately, due to my ignorance, do not know Macedonian names, nor will it exist today in Macedonian version.
In all this company, which appeared together in stories of comics, was a conspicuous detail that then do not pay any other semiotic significance apart - graphically. Question, namely, what they wore heroes - white gloves. The fact that only Pluto (the dog with incredibly long ears needle) wore these gloves, but you are free to see his paws, interpreted as a marker to distinguish between animals and humans. Namely, eloma it was clear that all the characters eloma except Pluto were antropomorfizirani and the first and unwritten convention of comics - to consider them for people.
Accordingly, these white gloves viewed from a semiotic point of view, were simple conventional sign - a sign that you need to separate "people" of wildlife. Beautiful illustration of the conventional notion of semiotic sign of this will not - agree to our white glove means a person, even if it bear Mouse, Duck, Dog (Shiljo, according to the interpretations of Disney is still a dog, although the degree of intelligence and therefore look like a donkey) or cat (or Lame Pete gives us a cat, though, according to the stories of Disney, was initially conceived as a bear).
But even then, as children (they live chats remember), I feel that behind that sign must be hiding some other meaning. In more semiotic vocabulary, I feel that it is not entirely conventional sign, but you must have your analoshka side, that is motivated sign, symbol for something. Of course, in those childhood years we do not know these terms, but remember that most of us behind those white gloves searched for "something eloma else" as interpreters of poetry behind the common raven in the poem by Edgar Allan Poe seeking "surplus meaning" , some amigvitet. Someone claimed that such magicians wear gloves (which eloma was true and we knew from television shows such miracle) and that these characters should probably be seen as a kind of David Copperfield. But if it was really so, then why, when Mickey would spoil his car, had to call Shiljo or Donald to help him? Why with some trick did not fix the car? Another one of the company argued that such surgeons wear white gloves, but we all agreed that such an interpretation is completely unacceptable - none of the characters of Disney have no experience with surgical scalpel in any comic.
This interpretation clearly indicate that Jonathan Kaler and often repeated, namely - that no matter how things are relative, all interpretations of some semiotic design or character is equally valid. I remember another interpretation - a clever boy, prone to pragmatism (later became eloma a lawyer and now has his own law office) told us not to philosophize, but to realize eloma that they are gloves made of the claws of the characters just do not see their animal, or to "hide grozotijata". This interpretation was closer to what today seems acceptable - that it is a conventional eloma sign, plain marker that separates the world of the "people" of the animal world. People sometimes wear gloves, animal never was this point that semiotic pragmatism (now I know it's called hermogenizam, under the name of Hermogen in Plato's dialogue "Kratil" - something already discussed in the first part of the book). However, me and a few other loyal fans of Disney World, this explanation does not satisfy me. The problem was that "people sometimes wear gloves." Sometimes, but not always. Why then all antropomorfizirani Disney characters always wear?
The answer to that question must wait until my graduate studies in Zagreb, when I first started to systematically deal with semiotics. Right said, totally forgot about that issue, until I started to slowly get into the secrets of labeling and until I touched the issue of collective symbols (see metaphor in the first part of the book). Then I realized that collective symbols are studied in some semantic-civilization and mythological contexts - Christian
