Tzvetan Todorov’s
Tzvetan todorov was born in March 1, 1939, Sofia, Bulgaria. He came up with the theory that all narrative follows three parts, after making a study on a Russian folk tales.
Tzvetan Todorov suggests all the narratives follow 5-part structure and it applies to all narrative such as plays, books, music video.
Equilibrium- Everything is balanced, meaning it is as it should be.
Disruption- Disturbance or problems which interrupt an event, activity, or process. This is when a problem occurs.
Realisation- This is a part when everyone realises a problem has occurred.
Disequilibrium- Something causes a problem that needs solving
Resorted order -This is the part when character attempts to repair the damage and restore the problem.
Resolution- The problem is solved.
For example in Finding Nemo.
Equilibrium - In the start of the movie, everything was fine.
Disequilibrium- This is when Nemo was captured by the scuba driver and was taken to Sydney.
Resolution-Merlin and Nemo are reunited.
Another example for a movie but this time for a teen drama called Juno.
Equilibrium- She lives her normal life as she has nothing to to do.This is when she experiments to have sex with her friend.
Disequilibrium- set up - finds out that she is pregnant,
set back - decides to give birth.
Resolution- climax- gives the baby to the adoption and makes up with her boyfriend Paulie.
Can we use this?
I think we should use Tzvetan Todorov's theory. The reason behind this is because of the genre that we chose is drama. Drama always has Disequilibrium that needs solving, just like Tzvetan's Theory . Every Drama follows the narrative structure.Juno has a plot that follows Tzvetan Todorov's narrative structure. For example, the plot starts with the main character getting pregnant then the problem is solved by giving the baby to the adoption. As, you can see from this it does always have to follow the narrative structure. We can have a flash of what happened in the past, this would hook the audience, as they might be interested on what happened.
Overall, as you can see all Tzvetan's points are proven with in the ' Finding Nemo 'and there are many films which follow the narrative structure. Other film that follow narrative structure are toy story 3, Kung Fu panda , frozen and many more.
However, it does not always have to start with equilibrium it can start with Resolution and have a flash back which would drive a story forward.
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