Wednesday, 24 October 2012

Tzventan Todorov Narrative Theory

Well the diagram above shows the theory in a simple way.
Tzventan Torodov was a Franco-Bulgarian structural linguistic philosopher who came up with the idea on how narrative and stories should be structured and gave a way of defining it.
 So basically the theory is came across in 1969 which would be related to any film or narrative. He believed that every film or any type of narrative followed the same structure and pattern. So the pattern was the following stages:

  1. Equilibrium (This is basically everything the way it should be, happy etc)
  2. Disequilibrium ( A problem is slowly being introduced and the equilibrium is slowly going)
  3. Acknowledgement (The problem as accrued and there is no equilibrium)
  4. Solving (The problem is being solved and equilibrium is slowly appearing again)
  5. Equilibrium (Something new has started)
So this is what it shown in the graph it can be like a cycle starting with Equilibrium and ending back on Equilibrium.
So this can happen is a lot of movies a series for example:





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