Literature is a socially privileged mode of transaction. However pre-modern classical literature threatens the imagination of human subjectivity in several ways. A writer with alert awareness cannot be indifferent to something that threatens the freedom of choice. As one of the most important literary theorists of the twentieth century, Roland Barthes is aware of the limits of classic literary practices. He starts to question received opinions and test the limits of literary expression. In his eyes, “a good part of our intellectual work consists in casting suspicion on any statement by revealing the disposition of its degrees” (Roland Barthes, Roland Barthes Par Roland Barthes 66). In the early stage of his critical theory, Roland Barthes, influenced by the ideas of Sartre and Karl Marx, displayed a strong interest in issues of language, its relationship to historical and social contexts, and its relationship to power. Following this phase, Roland Barthes is associated with the movement within criticism known as structuralism. Corresponding with the ideas of linguists in the 20th century such as Saussure and Roman Jakobson, Barthes theorizes about the role of language versus that of speech. In his critical eyes, language, based on an abstract set of rules and conventions, regulates verbal and written communication. As for speech, it refers to individual instances of how that language is used. His next critical position in the 1970s was deeply influenced by French theorists Jacques Derrida and Julia Kristeva. In this stage, Roland Barthes is often seen as evolving from standard structural readings towards post-structuralism, one of the theories of which is famous for its questioning the identity and the definition of human subjectivity in the history of literary practices. Within this phase, Barthes specially stresses the idea that literary texts contain multiple and shifting connotations, and are therefore open to a number of possible interpretations. Roland Barthes’s ideas have offered alternatives to the methods of traditional literary criticism.