Narrative theory’s

Ifrah Abdi Khalif

Who was Tzveton Todorov?

Todorov was a Bulgarian literacy critic, who suggests that most narratives begin With state of equilibrium, which meant “A calm state of mind” for the protagonist and the other characters in the film. Till a outside force disturbed the peace and the protagonist has to fight against this force in order to back to equilibrium.

Furthermore, this theory can be applied to Horror films because his theory of there always being only a certain number of characters who crop up in most narratives links into the common Horror genre characters.

1-THE EQUILIBRIUMThis is the stage were the film will be at its normality and the characters are in a calm situation.

For instance in the film ‘The hunger game’ the characters are getting on with their everyday life, such as hunting as the protagonist those in this film and usually there will be conflict between anyone.

2-A DISRUPTIONDuring this stage of the film there will be an issue that will occur and cause unhappiness with protagonist or the characters.

Within the ‘The hunger game’ the protagonist finds out that her little sister willbe part of the hunger game, which upsets her and cause the disturbance with the plot.

3-REALISATION

This part of the film the character realises the issue or problems.

In ‘The hunger game’ the protagonist realise the problem and decide to takeMatter into or own hand by taking her little sister place.

4-RESTORE

The characters attempts to restore peace again.

Catnesss fights for her life in order to win the game and end it for good.

5-EQUILIBRIUM AGAIN

During this final stage of the film characters re-gains normality after restoring the peace.

At final stage the films goes back to being at it normality because the characters and the protagonist bring peace back to the plot.