My narrative is overcoming isolation

narratives are organised around a particular theme and space and are based in an idea of time.

-Many narratives linear and sequential in that they start at 0 and run for a set length

“a whole is what has a beginning middle and end” – Aristotle poetics

-Its ok to alter, subvert the rules of narrative with a good reason.

Tztevan Todorov came up with (tripartite narrative structure)

• equilibrium
• disruption
• new equilibrium

(in other words beginning, middle, end)

Freytag – freyetags pyramid is important for narrative and is another way of showing narrative structure

by observing these theories I would say my disruption or change that I would like to put in the bridge of the song showing coronas affects.

vladimir prropp- (character types and functions)

characters functions privide narrative structure

• eg hero
• helper
• villain
• false hero
• victim
• father
• etc

Claude Levi-strauss (binary oppositions)

you can understand narrative structure if you understand binary oppositions

“we never know what we are but only what we are not”

concept or opposite concept

• eg good vs bad
• female vs male
• gay vs straight
• poor vs rich

Seymour chatman ( satellites & kernels )

Kernels : key moments in the plot /narrative structure

Satellites : embellishments developments aesthetics

break down a narrative into. 2 distinct elements those elements which are absolutely essential to the story/plot/narrative development, which are known as KERNELS and those moments that could be removed and the SATELLITES

SEYMOUR CHATMAN rephrased and elaborated on ROLAND BARTHES narratives theory and made it more simple and put it in English sing barthes notes were in french

what is narrative structure? = narrative is the overall structure. Story, the things, the themes. The plot is how you organise all of that.