Narrative Theories

Narratives are driven by conflict - Claude Levi-Strauss: Binary opposition, created by the two opposite.













Aristole - at the heart of tragedy is conflict and this is a representation of action.

The Conjuring (2013)

In the first clip we watched, there was the use of Levi-Strauss' Binary opposition of light and dark. There was also good verses evil. In the second clip, old and young, there was also human verses alien. The third clip consisted of light and dark, young and old.

Levi-Strauss considered the conflict created would drive the narrative forward until finally some sort of balance between them or resolution is achieved.

Here are some examples of Binary opposition:

• Light and Dark
• Right and Wrong
• Good and Evil
• Strength and Weakness
• Noise and Silence
• Inside and Outside
• Youth and Age
• Poverty and Wealth
• Makes and Female
• Honest and Deceitful
• Human and Alien
• Sanity and Insanity