Narrative Propp's Theory

Narrative Propp's theory

Propp's Theory

Propp's theory was that there only a certain amount of characters who appear in most narratives, Where these characters and the typical things they do can be seen across a wide range of narratives, and we expect in the films for the characters to portray their roles and expect them to be there and behave in a certain manor.

Vladimir Propp's theory came from breaking up fairy tales into sections, from doing this he was able to identify the tale into different series of sequences within Russian fairytales. Vladimir propps theory could be used to identify two different genres of Russian folklore and fairy tales. Russian folklore has two different structural analysis, One of the Russian folklore was the story in a chronological order of the linear  sequence of element in the text which could be read from an informant.

The other Russian folklore was structural analysis of to describe the pattern of which underlines the folkloristic text. This pattern is different to the chronological order because instead of the elements being taken out of the context in certain places and being re-put back in, the patterns in the second theory is more borrowing the paradigms and studying the language of the text.