Here I have tried to analyze two Disney fairy tales with the
help of structuralism approach and analyzed Barfi movie with help of five concepts
of narrative discourse given by Gerard Genette.
Dictionary meaning: A critical discipline
which studies a text in relation to other known elements. Including knowledge
of author, contemporaneous culture, literary conventions and facts not
mentioned in the text but known to intended readers in addition to the text
itself.
According to structuralist critic, they believed that in
every literature structure is same but it is presented in different manner. Whether
it is love story, tragedy or revenge story.
We all are aware about Disney fairy tales Cinderella, snow
white and seven dwarves, sleeping beauty etc.In sleeping Beauty we find that Aurora
has been cursed that when Aurora pricks her finger on a spinning wheel and die.
When Aurora pricks her fingers she falls into
a deep sleep. She can only awaken
from if she is kissed by her own true love.
Snow white and seven dwarves: In this story snow white falls unconscious
with one bite of poisoned apple. She lays sleeping over years; her prince
arrives eventually to wake her from her slumber. We can see that in these
stories prince comes to rescue his princess, structure is same but presented
differently.
I have done
analysis of Barfi movie according to five concepts of Gerard Gennets narrative
discourse. Story is in flashback technique. From present time narrator takes us
into past.
Order: In this movie kidnapping occurs rather than murder.
A circumstance of Jhilmil’s (Priyanka Chopra) kidnapping is revealed and police
thought it was Barfi (Ranbir Kapoor) but we came to know that kidnapper is not Barfi
but it is Jhilmil’s Father.
Frequency is singular.
Duration: There are two times separation happens
between two events. First it is of six years and then again it is of seven
years gape.
Voice:
voice is concern with narrator there is Intra Diegetic narration. Narrator is
Sudhanshu Dutt- who is local police officer in this movie.
This is how I
have tried to analyze the movie with the help of structuralist approach.
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