Sunday 11 July 2010

Tzvetan Todorov - Narrative Theory

Tzvetan Todorov suggested that conventional narratives are structured in five stages:

- A state of equilibrium at the outset
- A disruption of the equilibrium by some action
- A recognition that there has been a disruption
- An attempt to repair the disruption
- A reinstatement of the equilibrium

This could be a narrative structure we follow, but ocassionaly horror films do not revert to equilibrium, and this is a possible ending we are considering to truely imply horror.

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