1. Narrative Recap
Key theories and how they apply to
The Dark Knight

2. Claude Levi Strauss
• Said that our world is described in
terms of opposites or Binary
Oppositions
• Night/Day, Good/Bad, Light/Dark
• Are used to create conflict

3. Narrative and Binary Opposites in the
Dark Knight
Conflict

4. Conflict
 Is central to any narrative.
 Conflict creates the narrative and moves it along.
 There are five kinds of conflict
 Relational
 Inner
 Societal
 Situational
 Cosmic

5. Conflict in the Dark Knight
 Relational
Inner
Societal

6. The Three Act Structure

7. How does the Three Act Structure
apply to The Dark Knight?
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Set Up
Catalyst
First Turning Point
Second Turning Point
Third Turning Point
Climax
Resolution

8. Other Narrative features
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Subplots
Backstory
Medias Re
Change of Knowledge
Goal – Oriented
Two Goal Plot Structure
Investigate
Deadlines
Retardation
Foreshadowing