Narrative theory studies the devices and conventions governing the organisation of a story (fictional or factional) into a sequence.
Todorov suggested that stories began with an equilibrium or status quo where any potentially opposing forcesare in balance. This is disrupted by some event, setting in chain a series ofevents. Problems are solved so that order can be restored to the world of the fiction.
Todorov basically stated that films and and programmes go through a period of unsettlement and disquiet followed by a renewed state of peace and then a new equilibrium brings chaos to an end.
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