Who was Vladmir Propp? (Research)

Vladmir Propp

About Vladmir Propp & His Theory:
Vladimir  Propp was a Russian and Soviet formalist scholar who analyzed the basic plot components of Russian folk tales to identify their simplest irreducible narrative elements.Vladimir Propp extended the Russian Formalist approach to the study of narrative structure. In the Formalist approach, sentence structures were broken down into analyzable elements, or morphemes, and Propp used this method by analogy to analyze Russian fairy tales. By breaking down a large number of Russian folk tales into their smallest narrative units, or narratemes, Propp was able to arrive at a typology of narrative structures.

When  Propp talks about his narratives, he breaks them down into 31 different sections/functions so that people could understand his approach to narratives. The following list bellow tells you how he broke down the narratives into different sections:



1.Absentation            2.Interdiction    3.VIOLATION of INTERDICTION  4.RECONNAISSANCE

5.DELIVERY           6.TRICKERY  7.COMPLICITY        8.VILLAINY or LACK

9.MEDIATION       10.BEGINNING COUNTER-ACTION 11. DEPARTURE

12.FIRST FUNCTION OF THE DONOR       13.HERO'S REACTION

14.RECEIPT OF A MAGICAL AGENT    15.GUIDANCE    16.STRUGGLE    17.BRANDING

18.VICTORY       19.LIQUIDATION       20.RETURN        21.PURSUIT  22.RESCUE

23.UNRECOGNIZED ARRIVAL    24.UNFOUNDED CLAIMS    25.DIFFICULT TASK

26.SOLUTION    27.RECOGNITION   28.EXPOSURE  29.TRANSFIGURATION
30.PUNISHMENT  31.WEDDING

I believe that the following  Busta Rhymes featuring Mariah Carey video follows a similar theme to propp. I believe that Mariah is the dansell in distress and Busta Rhymes is the Hero trying to rescue her.