The document discusses various narrative theories including Todorov's 5 stages of narrative structure, Barthes' semantic, proairetic and symbolic codes, Propp's analysis of Russian folk tales into 31 functions, and Strauss' concept of binary opposites. It also explains how some of these theories like Todorov's equilibriums and Propp's functions could be applied to the narrative being developed in a synchronic rather than diachronic form.