Narrative Theories.

Todoro

From analysing horror films, Todorov discovered that a common similarity in the each of the story's structures was that the plot starts with normality and content and is is then disrupted by a significant event or crisis point and is then resolved with an often new order by the end of the film.

Propp

He looked in detail at 100's of folk tales to see if they had anything in common and  realised that there were 8 main character functions in each of the tales:

1. The villain
2. The hero
3. The donor (provides magical objects)
4. The helper (aids the hero)
5. The princess (reward)
6. Her father
7. The dispatcher (sends the hero away)
8. The false hero