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NARRATIVE THEORY - CLAUDE LEVI-STRAUSS

Binary Oppositions

Some common examples

  • good vs. evil
  • protagonist vs. antagonist
  • active vs. passive
  • young vs. old
  • white vs. black
  • feminine vs. masculine

What did he observe?

Levi-Strauss observed that:

  • all humans make sense of the world by dividing it into binary oppositions.
  • story telling in narrative reflects this.
  • all narratives are organised around the conflict between binary oppositions.

Levi Strauss

Was an anthropologist; he explained his findings on myths and legends in his book: 'mythologies' which can be applied to film.

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