Narrative Theories


Barthes 
Enigma
Code
Levi Strauss
Binary Opposites
Todorov’s Equilibrium
Theory
  • Action - a narrative device by which a resolution is produced through action
  • Enigma - a narrative device that teases the audience by presenting a puzzle or riddle to be solved, works to delay the story’s ending.
  • Levi Strauss’ Binary Opposites narrative theory is all about the conflict being between two opposite things or people for example; good vs evil, superheroes vs villains, women vs men.
  • Todorov’s narrative theory consisted of the plot line of the story being that in the beginning there is a state of equilibrium, there then is a disruption to that equilibrium, the protagonist is made aware of that disruption and so the protagonist tries to repair the damage and therefore there is a return to a new equilibrium