Propp, De Saussure, And The Narrative By Vladimir Pro

(After intro) Vladimir Propp was a Russian folklorist and scholar whose contributions are both enormously important and highly accessible for the understanding of narratives found on television and in the media in general. Propp argues that there are 31 different series of rules and functions that all narratives follow. In “Propp, de Saussure, and the Narrative” Arthur Berger breaks down the 31 different rules and functions, the first function is the initial situation in which the main character is introduced for the first time to the audience, and it usually follows a series of events that shape the story that will often conclude in a happy ever after finale such as the glory the main character achieves thorough his/hers accomplishments or as simple as marriage of the main characters. Propp also reveals that in every narrative there are two possible kinds of heroes: “Seeker hero, those who seek something, are sent off on some task, and so forth and victimized heroes, those who must leave home to fight against a villains, but are not sent specifically to seek something.” (Arthur, 15) Propp also addresses that in any narrative there will be a hero either a seeker hero, or a victimized hero, but there will never be both at once. Does The Muppet Movie follow Propp Narrative structure? …show more content…
He is being introduced as the main character by being the one who opens up the story line and by him being isolated at the beginning it gives the audience the clue that he will be the main focus of the movie. As time goes by a Hollywood agent approaches Kermit and tells him about how successful he could