Narrative Theories

During Miss Dawes lesson we had to go out in pairs and research one of the four main narrative theories. There were; Todorov, Claude Levi-Strauss, Vogler and vladimir Propp.
Me and Sophie looked at Claude Levi-Strauss and what we had to do was find out his narrrative theory and then adapt it into a fairytale.
So me and Sophie went and we researched Claude Levi-Strauss and we found out...
we dound out that his theory was based on binary opposition which could be things like good and evil, earth and space, youth and age, weak and strong.
Then Sophie and I adapted it to a fairytale and we adapted it in to Snow White. So the concept of good and evil are the good is the prince at the end and the evil is the old hag. Then it breaks down to good usually being youth and evil being age so you see in Snow White there is the young prince and then the old hag. So that is the binary opposititions.
Then for my own research I looked at Vladimir Propp. His narrative theory is a bit different to Claude Levi-Strauss because he has specific characters in his narrative theory. Propp has..
The Hero (that seeks something)
The Villian (opposes the hero)
The Donor Helps the hero by providing him with a magic object)
The Dispatcher (sends the hero on his way)
The False hero (falsely assuming the role of hero)
The Helper (gives support to the hero)
The Princess (the reward for the hero, but also needs protection from the villan)
Her Father

Then I went on to Tzvetan Todorov and his narrative theory start with a state of an equilibrium which in real life is normal and nothing really changes in your life. Then after that you have the disequilibrium which is a change in your life, good or bad, and it ruins your equilibrium and then finally you have your newequilibrium which is a whole new life, different to the equilibrium at the beggining. So I adapted this narrative theory into the fairytale Cinderella. So the equilibrium is her being a slave to her step-mother and step-sisters. Then the disequilibrium is when the fairy-godmother arrives and allows her to go to the ball and then the newequilibrium is when she marries the prince and lives happily ever after.

Then finally I looked at Vogler and I mainly looked at the heor's inner journey. It has 12 parts to it and then I adapted that into Aladin.

So everypart of the heros inner journey is a part of the story Aladin.