Propp stock characters
| CATEGORY | FAMILIARITIES: | DIFFERENCES: | CATEGORY FAMILIARITIES: DIFFERENCES: THEORY |
| CHARACTERS | Polly – The dispatcher/ false hero. He wants Richard to have a better life so he leaves him for both of their benefit. He also acts like a hero as he shows himself working however he never provides for Richard. | PROPP, presents the idea of STOCK CHARACTERS, inc ‘hero’, ‘false hero’, ‘princess’, ‘father figure’, ‘despatcher’ | |
| THEMES | LEVI-STRAUSS the use of key themes to structure stories and characters around familiar themes: family, community, law and order, justice. Often set up as binary oppostions: right/wrong urban/rural, young/old, good/bad |