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- 2. What is narrative? • A narrative is a constructive format as a work of speech, writing, song, film, television, video games, photography or theatre, that describes a sequence of non-fictional or fictional events. The word "story" may be used as a synonym of "narrative". It can also be used to refer to the sequence of events described in a narrative .
- 3. Narrative theorists and theories. Vladimir Propp – he proposed that it was possible to classify the characters and their actions into clearly defined roles and functions. Todorov – suggests most narratives starts with equilibrium which is where everything is normal and protagonists are happy. Roland Barthes – suggests that narrative works with five different codes which activate the reader to make sense of it.
- 4. What narrative theories link to the horror genre? Toderovs theory fits in well with the horror genre, because it most horror films it typically starts with everything being completely normal and then something terrible happening and corrupting the normality, and then in the end everything ends up ok again. Propps theory also links well to the horror genre as he said you can identify the characters and their actions into defined roles and functions. For example, the hero and the villian etc.