https://journals.umt.edu.pk/index.php/llr <p style="text-align: justify;">Linguistics and Literature Review (LLR) is a double-blind peer-reviewed journal published by the University of Management and Technology a leading university in Pakistan. Various international indexing and abstracting agencies cite the journal.</p> Department of English and Literary Studies (DELS), Institute of Liberal Arts (ILA), University of Management and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan en-US Linguistics and Literature Review 2409-109X <p><a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" rel="license"><img src="https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by/4.0/88x31.png" alt="Creative Commons License"></a><br>This work is licensed under a&nbsp;<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" rel="license">Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. </a>Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a&nbsp;<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License</a>&nbsp;that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of the work’s authorship and initial publication in this journal.</p> https://journals.umt.edu.pk/index.php/llr/article/view/4536 <p>This study examines the structural patterns of two radically distinct genres, namely techno-thriller and visionary fiction, by focusing on the actantial elements of fictional works. It seeks to clarify misconceptions about traditional literary analysis by comparing the novels <em>Rumi's Daughter</em> by Maufroy (<a href="#Maufroy">2004</a>) and <em>Deception Point</em> by Brown (<a href="#Brown">2001</a>). The actant theory, first introduced by Greimas (<a href="#Greimas">1971</a>) and later amended by Hébert (<a href="#Hébert">2020</a>), is employed to analyze the roles of characters, exploring both their similarities and differences within the internal narrative structure of the selected novels. The study investigates narratives’ universal “grammar” by focusing on three pairings of binary oppositions, that is, subject/object, sender/receiver, and helper/opponent. Despite the differences in theme, culture, characters, and genre, the study shows that the characters’ narrative structure and actantial function are the same, proving Greimas’ claim that the actantial theory applies to all narratives. This study contributes to the basic understanding of the fundamental patterns that connect human narratives, despite the apparent differences between the civilizations they belong to.</p> Ramsha Khan Azka Khan Copyright (c) 2024 Ramsha Khan, Azka Khan https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 2024-09-02 2024-09-02 10 2 02 26 10.32350/llr.102.01