| Category | Familiarities | differences | theory |
| characters | clear and obvious protagonist that will conflict the danger head on with a clear enemy or antagonist being western society. | they have an instinct engraved into their society that they must give up their life to please the government your life and repay your debt of them raising you and that your body belongs to them so they choose what happens to it. | propp |
| narrative | The protagonist is being made to do something that he/she doesn’t want to do but must be done for the greater good of their state and country. | The protagonist starts off with power when he tells the people off for smuggling Shakespeare into their country which is contraband. His power is then taken away when he meets people superior to him as they tell him to go away as a spy and complete a spy mission. | todorov |
| themes | secrets and lies are kept from the population to keep people from the truth as it might make them look bad. | the secrets are being exposed through dramatic irony that the viewers already know | Levi Strauss |
| representation | One nation or opposition is classified or represented as evil and a danger to their way of living | the difference is that our standard of living is the evil one. | semiotics |
| technical codes | music is being played In German on the radio which is similar to what we do | the difference is that they are playing foreign music unlike us because we wouldn’t play foreign music often. |
