Narrative Theory

Narrative 

Narrative is the way the foundations of a story are arranged to present to the audience.

Tzvetan Todorov 

Tzvetan Todorov is a Bulgarian philosopher and literary critic who was studying Russian folklore when he came up with his theory called the ‘Todorov’s Narrative Theory’ which states that most stories and plots follow the basic pattern. 

Todorov’s theory can only be applied to old fairy tales or similar stories with the simple and easy to follow plotline however it’s quite unsophisticated and not very creative.  

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Vladmir Propp 

Vladimir Propp was a scholar and literary critic who revised and read many Russian folk tales in the 1920s and realised that many of these narratives followed the basis of having similar character types 

Claude Levi-Strauss

Claude Levi-Strauss was a philosopher and anthropologist whose theory of “Binary Opposition” suggested that narrative conflict was caused by a sequence of opposing forces. The theory is used to show how most aspects of narrative have an equal and opposite force.

 Examples from the movie

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