Representation of social and cultural values in Enola Holmes 2 movie

This research examines semiotic signs and meanings, namely denotation and connotation, using a study of Roland Barthes' theory in the Enola Holmes 2 movie which was produced and released by Netflix in 2022. The research question studied in this research is how did denotation and connotation represent the social and cultural values of England during the Victorian era in Enola Holmes 2 movie. The researcher used descriptive qualitative methods to analyse the data obtained from the main data source in this research, which is the Enola Holmes 2 movie. The data taken was in the form of screenshots of scenes related to the research question. The researcher watched the movie repeatedly to obtain and collect accurate data. After that, the researcher began to analyse each data using Roland Barthes' (1964) theory, and also created a table to store the data and make it easier for readers to understand the data which contains signs of denotation and connotation related to social and cultural values. As a result, the researcher found signs that contain social values and signs that contain cultural values. There were 10 data found and analysed by the researcher, 7 of which were signs of social values and the remaining 3 were signs of English cultural values during the Victorian era as shown in the Enola Holmes 2 movie. The signs that show the social values are regarding the underage children who are working, the fashion style of Victorian society which was influenced by their social class, the poor workplace felt by the lower class of Victorian society, in a strike movement carried out by one of the match workers in the real world, and about how a woman gets her rights as a worker. There are also other signs which show how Enola in the upper-middle class still experiences discrimination related to her gender and work. Apart from that, there are 3 other pieces of data that show signs containing English cultural values during the Victorian era which were also influenced by the social classes of society.