Theorists:
Vladimir Propp
Came up with the idea of indivdual character roles:
- The hero/protagonist - protects and weds the princess/he who seeks
- The villain/blocker - maintains the struggle/fight with the hero/the bad person
- The object of the quest - that which is sought
- The donor - helps the hero with the fight/gives them something to help
- The helper - gives support to the hero when needed
- The princess - a sort of reward for the hero; hero protects the princess from the villain
- Her father - usually dies during or before the film/book
- The dispatcher - sends hero in the right direction
Equillibrium --> Disequillibrium --> New Equillibrium
The equillibrium is the normality. Something has to become the disequillibrium and disrupt normality and have something go wrong. This then needs something to be done about it to get to the new equillibrium and be back to normal again.
Roland Barthes
Suggested that the narrative works with five different codes which allows it all to make sense:
- Action - a device of which produces a resolution through action, e.g a car chase
- Enigma - teases the audience; gets the audience to question themselves as well as the movie all information has yet been revealed
- Symbolic - connotation
- Semic - denotation
- Cultural - a stereotyped character, for example a man in a suit with a flash car and a brief case would automatically be seen as a business man
Claude examined the values, cultures and belief shown in stories and the way that they are unconciously reflected; they are usually reflected in binary oppositions. His work has then been conveyed to and adapted to discover underlying themes and symbolic oppositions.
Heaven Hell
good bad
halo horns
god the devil
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