Wednesday, 24 April 2019

NARRATIVE: Toddorov's 5-part narrative formula

Todorov is a Bulgarian/French historian, literature critic, philosopher and sociologist. In 1996 he created a theory which he believed to be able to be applied to any film. He was convinced that all films followed the same narrative pattern.

The following where the 5 stages of his theory:
  1. state of equilibrium - where everything is as it should be
  2. disruption of the equilibrium through an event in the film
  3. recognition by the characters that there has been a disruption
  4. An attempt to repair the disruption
  5. A reinstatement of the equilibrium

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