INTRO TO NARRATIVE

What do you think narrative means?

A story line that the plot follows

Tutor Definition

Narrative is a media term for how a story is told in a text.

Story - a sequence of events, known correctly as the plot.
Narrative - The way those events are put together to be presented to an
audience.

What are the different ways of structuring a narrative?

Linear (chronological/normal)
Non- Linear (flashbacks etc...)
Multi-strand (we follow multiple storylines(pulp fiction))
Single-stand (one storyline)

List Propps seven archetypes

1. Villain (antagonist)
2. Hero
3. Princess
4. Donor (wise old man who has knowledge/or a sword)
5. Helper (sidekick)
6. Dispatcher (sends hero on quest(usually a Dad))
7. The false Hero (Claims to be and acts like the hero)
Can you apply Propps theory to a TV show or Film?
1. Voldemort
2. Harry Potter
3. The magic world/ world as whole
4. Dumbledore
5. Hermione/Ron
6. Dumbledore
7. Rufus Scrimgeour
List the stages or Todorovs narrative theory.
 1. Equilibrium (normal life)
2. Disruption of the equilibrium
3. Recognition of disruption
4. An attempt to repair the damage
5. New equilibrium
Can you apply Todorovs theory to Dead Man Walking?
1. Suicide case
2. OMalleys corrupt
3. When the beans are spilled
4. Burke handcuffs OMalley.
5.
List Barthes Codes.
Action (something physical happens)
Enigma (mystery)
Cultural (things about setting/set up that would make you think
something)
Connotations (refrences)
Symbolic (themes)
Can you analyse Barthes codes in Dead Man Walking?
Action Kent runs away/ gets killed
Enigma why does he run away/ get killed/numbers (symbols)?
Cultural The Kents being brothers, two cops, and cop names.
Connotations Kent running/ OMalley trying to disrupt Burke)
Symbolic - Good and bad vs Bad, corruption, conspiracy.

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