Claude Levi-Strauss is a french theorist that came up with a theory that said that a structure of narrative was a dependence on binary oppositions. This is a conflict between two qualities or terms, they form a basis of narratives. For example:-
young <-----> old
male <-----> female
Gender- narratives can be organised through binary oppositions of gender stereotypes.
The diagram below shows the gender stereotypes:-
There are also other binary oppositions, there is a list below of the different ones:-
in a lesson our teacher showed us two examples of binary oppositions, here they are:-
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