INTRO TO NARRATIVE

What do you think narrative means?

Narrative is when you have a clear story from the start to end.

Tutor Definition

Narrative is the 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
When analysing a narrative we analyse the construction of the story i.e
the way it has been put together, not the story itself.
What are the different ways of structuring a narrative?

Linear
Non linear
Multi strand
Single strand

List Propps seven archetypes:

The villain
The donor
The helper
The princess, a sought for person (and/or her father) who exists as a
goal and often recognises and marries the hero and/or punishes villain
The dispatcher
The hero, who departs on search (seeker hero), reacts to the donor and
weds
The false hero (or antihero or usurper), who claims to be the hero,
often seeking and reacting like a real hero (ie by trying to marry the
princess)
 Can you apply Propps theory to a TV show or Film?
Walking Dead

List the stages or Todorovs narrative theory.

Equilibrium
Disruption of the Equilibrium
Recognition of the disruption
An attempt to repair the damage
New Equilibrium

Can you apply Todorovs theory to Dead Man Walking?

Equilibrium Burke and OMalley
Disruption Jamie Kents death
Recognition When the box gets opened
Attempt to repair When Burke handcuffs OMalley

List Barthes Codes.

Action
Enigma
Cultural
Connotations
Symbolic
Can you analyse Barthes codes in Dead Man Walking?
Action When Burke chases Jamie Kent / OMalley storming towards
Jamie and grabbing his shirt and shouting at him
Enigma The puzzle to find out who pushed Sam.
Cultural -

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