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Theory of everything narrative
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- 2. EXAM QUESTIONS ONNARRATIVE 1. Explore the Narrative Structure of your 3 main texts 2. ‘Media texts contain complex narratives.’ How true is this of your 3 main texts? 3. ‘Narratives generally follow a linear structure’. Discuss with reference to your 3 main texts. 4. How important are characters to the narrative of your 3 main texts? 5. Explore how narrative is constructed in your 3 main texts.
- 3. Consider how RobertMcKee’s 5 Stage Narrative Structure can be applied to TTOE. STAGE ONE INCITING INCIDENT STAGE TWO PROGRESSIVE COMPLICATIONS STAGE THREE CRISIS STAGE FOUR CLIMAX STAGE FIVE RESOLUTION?
- 4. Consider how RobertMcKee’s 5 Stage Narrative Structure can be applied to TTOE. STAGE ONE INCITING INCIDENT STAGE TWO PROGRESSIVE COMPLICATIONS STAGE THREE CRISIS STAGE FOUR CLIMAX STAGE FIVE RESOLUTION? • Cambridge 1963- Stephen meets Jane at a party. • After a couple of chance meetings, Stephen asks Jane to dinner at his parent’s and asks Jane to be his date to the May Ball. PARALLEL NARRATIVE Stephen decides on his thesis topic after visiting a lecture on black holes
- 5. Consider how RobertMcKee’s 5 Stage Narrative Structure can be applied to TTOE. STAGE ONE INCITING INCIDENT STAGE TWO PROGRESSIVE COMPLICATIONS STAGE THREE CRISIS STAGE FOUR CLIMAX STAGE FIVE RESOLUTION? • Cambridge 1963- Stephen meets Jane at a party. • After a couple of chance meetings, Stephen asks Jane to dinner at his parent’s and asks Jane to be his date to the May Ball. PARALLEL NARRATIVE Stephen decides on his thesis topic after visiting a lecture on black holes • Stephen notices that his muscles are starting to fail. • After falling and hitting his head, Stephen is diagnosed with Motor Nuerone Disease and given 2 years to live. • He distances himself from Jane but she persists that they will stay together. PARALLEL NARRATIVE Stephen receives his PHD.
- 6. Consider how RobertMcKee’s 5 Stage Narrative Structure can be applied to TTOE. STAGE ONE INCITING INCIDENT STAGE TWO PROGRESSIVE COMPLICATIONS STAGE THREE CRISIS STAGE FOUR CLIMAX STAGE FIVE RESOLUTION? • Cambridge 1963- Stephen meets Jane at a party. • After a couple of chance meetings, Stephen asks Jane to dinner at his parent’s and asks Jane to be his date to the May Ball. PARALLEL NARRATIVE Stephen decides on his thesis topic after visiting a lecture on black holes • Stephen notices that his muscles are starting to fail. • After falling and hitting his head, Stephen is diagnosed with Motor Nuerone Disease and given 2 years to live. • He distances himself from Jane but she persists that they will stay together. PARALLEL NARRATIVE Stephen receives his PHD. • After several years of marriage and 2 children (Robert -1967 and Lucy -1970), Stephen’s condition slowly deteriorates and the family seek help from Jonathan Jones, whom Jane had met in a church choir in 1977. • Jonathan begins helping the family and in 1979 Stephen and Jane have a 3rd child- Timothy. PARALLEL NARRATIVE Stephen continues to work on his theoretical studies.
- 7. Consider how RobertMcKee’s 5 Stage Narrative Structure can be applied to TTOE. STAGE ONE INCITING INCIDENT STAGE TWO PROGRESSIVE COMPLICATIONS STAGE THREE CRISIS STAGE FOUR CLIMAX STAGE FIVE RESOLUTION? • Cambridge 1963- Stephen meets Jane at a party. • After a couple of chance meetings, Stephen asks Jane to dinner at his parent’s and asks Jane to be his date to the May Ball. PARALLEL NARRATIVE Stephen decides on his thesis topic after visiting a lecture on black holes • Stephen notices that his muscles are starting to fail. • After falling and hitting his head, Stephen is diagnosed with Motor Nuerone Disease and given 2 years to live. • He distances himself from Jane but she persists that they will stay together. PARALLEL NARRATIVE Stephen receives his PHD. • After several years of marriage and 2 children (Robert -1967 and Lucy -1970), Stephen’s condition slowly deteriorates and the family seek help from Jonathan Jones, whom Jane had met in a church choir in 1977. • Jonathan begins helping the family and in 1979 Stephen and Jane have a 3rd child- Timothy. PARALLEL NARRATIVE Stephen continues to work on his theoretical studies. • Whilst attending a concert in Geneva, Switzerland in 1985, Stephen contracts pneumonia. He is placed into a medically induced coma and receives a tracheotomy, meaning he will never speak again. PARALLEL NARRATIVE Stephen writes his book; a Brief History of Time, published in 1988. • In the years following the Hawking’s grow distant, Stephen having developed feelings for his nurse Elaine, and Jane for Jonathan. The couple splits in 1990.
- 8. Consider how RobertMcKee’s 5 Stage Narrative Structure can be applied to TTOE. STAGE ONE INCITING INCIDENT STAGE TWO PROGRESSIVE COMPLICATIONS STAGE THREE CRISIS STAGE FOUR CLIMAX STAGE FIVE RESOLUTION? • Cambridge 1963- Stephen meets Jane at a party. • After a couple of chance meetings, Stephen asks Jane to dinner at his parent’s and asks Jane to be his date to the May Ball. PARALLEL NARRATIVE Stephen decides on his thesis topic after visiting a lecture on black holes • Stephen notices that his muscles are starting to fail. • After falling and hitting his head, Stephen is diagnosed with Motor Nuerone Disease and given 2 years to live. • He distances himself from Jane but she persists that they will stay together. PARALLEL NARRATIVE Stephen receives his PHD. • After several years of marriage and 2 children (Robert -1967 and Lucy -1970), Stephen’s condition slowly deteriorates and the family seek help from Jonathan Jones, whom Jane had met in a church choir in 1977. • Jonathan begins helping the family and in 1979 Stephen and Jane have a 3rd child- Timothy. PARALLEL NARRATIVE Stephen continues to work on his theoretical studies. • Whilst attending a concert in Geneva, Switzerland in 1985, Stephen contracts pneumonia. He is placed into a medically induced coma and receives a tracheotomy, meaning he will never speak again. PARALLEL NARRATIVE Stephen writes his book; a Brief History of Time, published in 1988. • In the years following the Hawking’s grow distant, Stephen having developed feelings for his nurse Elaine, and Jane for Jonathan. The couple splits in 1990. (NOT SEEN) Stephen moves in with and eventually marries Elaine – 1995 (NOT SEEN) Jane and Jonathan marry- 1996 • Jane receives a letter from Stephen in the late 90s inviting her to meet the Queen with him. Despite their separation they remain friends and the film ends showing the Hawking family in the Buckingham Palace hardens with Stephen exclaiming to Jane ‘Look what we made’.
- 9. NARRATIVE Using your understandingof Narrative, complete the grid in relation to TTOE Narrative Structure Character Development Binary Opposition Narrative Devices (Link to genre) • McKee- Why do you think a McKee structure is more applicable than a Todorov structure? • Linear or Non-Linear? • Circular? Explain… • Multi-stranded? • Open or Closed ending? Audience pleasure. Explain… • Complex narrative? • Whose perspective are we seeing? Explain… • Proppian Archetypes? • Character functions? (Protagonist / Antagonist etc.) Can these be applied? • How do the characters develop throughout the plot? Stephen / Jane. • What Binary Oppositions are presented in this narrative? • How do they contribute to our understanding of the narrative or character development? • Barthes Codes- Action and Enigma- link to Cause and Effect • Use of POV? Character’s perspective. • Use of Flash-back / Flash-forward? • Other technical codes which may imply narrative?
- 10. ACTIVITY Using your notes,consider and plan the answers to the following questions: • 1) Does TTOE contain a complex narrative? Explain, with specific reference to the film. • 2) Does TTOE follow a linear structure? Why do you think this is? • 3) How important are characters to the narrative of TTOE?