Narrative Theory

Narrative Theory

Storyline:

. Characters effect on the narrative

. Structured BME

. Non-Chronological Order

. Plot

. Things that happen in the story

. Message 

Narrative:

. In Media terms, narrative is the coherence/orginisation given to scenes of facts.

. The human mind needs narrative to make sense of things.

. In everything we seek a beggining, Middle and an end.

. We understand and construct meaning our experience of reality and of the previous texts. Each text becomes a part of the previous and the next through its relationship with the audience.

Expected in a tradtional Fairytale:

. Princess

. Prince

. villain

. Love

. Wishes

. Happy ever after

. Castle 

. Mystical Creatures

. Quest

. Sexist

Film as Fairytale:

Vladimir Propp, a Russian Critic, active in the 1920's published in his morphology of the folk tale in 1928. While the soviet cinema was producing excellent films , Propp was essentially interested in the narrative of folk tales he noticed. 

. Folk tales were similar in many areas. They were about the same basic struggles and they appeared to have stock characters. He identified a theory about characters and actions as narrative functions.

. Characters according to Propp, have a narrative function; they provide a structure for the text.

Characters that perform a function

. The hero- A character that seeks something

. The villain- Who opposes or actively blocks the hero's quest.

. The Donor- Who Provides an object with magical properties

. The Dispatcher- Who sends the hero on hbis/her quest via a message

. The false Hero- Who disrupts the hero's quest by making false chains

. The helper- Who aids the hero

. The Princess- Acts as the reward for the hero and object of the villain's plot.

My 10 points of a Narrative story
1. New girl moves to a cottage
2. The most beautiful girl in thew cottage addresses the new girl
3. The guy of the town introduces himself to the new girl and taking a keen interest
4. The beautiful girl gets jealous and dispises the new girl
5. The beautiful girl has men to capture the new girl in a tower house where there is no way out.
6. A few days later the guy of the town realises the absence of the new girl as the beautiful girl lies and says the new girl had moved away immediately.
7. The guy of the town is then forced to Marry the beautiful girl by her father but then realises this is all a trap.
8. The new girl manages to escape as a worker in the tower who hates the beautiful girl and her family helps the new girl out by letting her escape.
9. The new girl then runs to bump into the guy of the town and explains what has happened. The guy of the town plans a get away before the people of the town can track them down.
10. Before the beautiful girl could find them, the guy of the town and his new lady get away and live happily ever after.