Aristotle & Claude LeviAfreen Shahid

Aristotle

• He mainly believed that characters and the plot were the most important features of a narrative.

• I personally agree with his theory because without an exciting plot, the audience would not want to watch the film. Also, characters are vital for example more people would want to watch a film if it featured a well known celebrity.

Aristotle

“For tragedy is a representation, not of men, but of action and life, of happiness and unhappiness – and unhappiness and happiness

are bound up with action.”

Claude Levi-Strauss(20th century theorist)

• He suggested that all narratives had to be driven forward by conflict that was caused by a series of opposing forces.

Binary opposites

Conflict

Driving narrative forward

Examples of the theory of binary opposition

• Love and Hate• Good and Evil• Light and Dark• Strength and Weakness• Youth and Age• An example of Claude Levi’s theory in use is in

Harry Potter where Harry and Voldemort are both enemies and the above examples are shown clearly in the picture.