Narrative Theory( Thriller Narrative)

 Propp's approach to narrative 

• Vladimir prop analysed hundred of Russian people  before deciding that all narrative have similar structure . 
• He studied ands observed that narrative are shape and  directed in a certain type of characters and  different type of action .
• He  found out and believe there are 31 possible stage or functions in any narrative .
•    These doesn't  appeal  only  in one story, but n nevertheless always appear in the same sequence.
• A function is an event story .
• A tale may skip functions but it cannot  shuffle their unvarying order. 

This is Vladimir Propp'sRussian ;

He analysed and  argued that plots develop from the decisions and actions of characters and how they function in a story .

Propp's approach to narrative 

Propp was a strong believer that the was  are seven roles which any character  assume in the story:

• Hero / departs on a search (seeker-hero),reacts to donor and weds at end.
• False hero/ claims to be the hero, often seeking and reacting like a real  hero.
• Dispatcher / send  hero off .
• Helper/ assists, rescues, solves and /or  transfigures the hero.

Levi-Strauss -Narrative Theory of Binary Opposites 

Levi-strauss  was a cultural anthropologist . His work was to investigate why there were  so many similarities within the stories that are told within different cultures . He  found out that one of the most common structure of story was through binary opposition,  which are element from the narrative and mise-en-sce'ne, such as  good and evil or young and old.

This is Claude Levi Strauss: 1908 Belgium ,Structuralism and Linguist . 

Examples of binary oppositions  

1. Mans vs nature 
2. young vs old
3. strong vs weak
4. East vs West 
5. Good -looking vs ugly 

Binary Opposition

• Binary oppositions can help  to identify  who  the 'good' and 'bad' characters are very quickly. 
• The idea that we cannot conceive the concept of 'good' without the presence of 'bad' with which to compare it to and therefore define it against.
• Binary oppositions are obviously present in narrative because  fundamentally a narrative must be based on a conflict of forces, opposition between hero and villain.

Bathes 

 Roland Bathes' Narrative codes 

 The two ways of creating suspense in narrative, the first caused by unanswered questions, the second by the anticipation of an action's resolution  

Enigma code - Anything that relate to a question in  the narrative .

Action code - plot that moves the narrative forward. 

 This is Roland Bathes 12 November  1915