stories use STOCK CHARACTERS to structure stories
Suggest that all stories draw on familiar characters performing similar functions to provide familiar narrative structures.
the way in which CHARACTERS FUNCTION TO PROVIDE NARRATIVE STRUCTURE:
- Hero
- Helper
- Princess
- Villain
- Victim
- Dispatcher
- Father
- False Hero
What is Vladimir Propp’s theory?
Vladimir Propp was a folklorist researcher interested in the relationship between characters and narrative . Propp argued that stories are character driven and that plots develop from the decisions and actions of characters and how they function in a story.
he said they are not all used though most are organised around the interplay of the hero villain and princess archetypes