Claude Levi-Strausse-Miranda

'Claude suggested that narratives are provided with motivation to move from one point to another by the repeated establishing of actual or potential conflict, he saw that narratives as having binary oppositions'.

I am going to give an example of this theory, the television programme I am going to present this is Miranda.
Miranda is extremely opposite to her mother played by Patricia Hodge.

 

 

As we see in this clip of Miranda, is very immature compared to her mother, as she is jobless and childish, as we see her playing with objects with eyes, and we can tell that she has a lot of time on her hands. Miranda is also childish when it comes to her mother showing her holiday photos, Miranda is giggly and acting like a small child. Whereas her mother is completly they opposiste, as her mother is calm, colective, mature, and seems like she is always busy and in control with her life.

 

These oppositions act upon each other and characters try to control them, causing conflict and resoulution.