A narrative structure is about two things: the content of a story and the form used to tell the story. Two common ways to describe these two parts of narrative structure are story and plot. Story refers to the raw materials of dramatic action as they might be described in chronological order. A narrative structure is the overall arrangement of parts that media text compromises. - This a google definition of a narrative structure.
A narrative structure has two parts. Story and a plot. A story is the whole world. When you imagine a story or someone tells you a story you imagine yourself in the world where the story exists and takes place. A plot is the arrangement of the story units. This means that it is the main events that take place within the story which drive the story in a forward sequence.
These are some examples of narrative structures used in the past:
- Spring myths are comedies, that is, stories that lead from bad situations to happy endings. Shakespeare's Twelfth Night is such a story.
- Summer myths are similarly utopian fantasies such as Dante's Paradiso.
- Fall myths are tragedies that lead from ideal situations to disaster. Compare Hamlet, Othello, and King Lear and the movie Legends of the Fall.
- Winter myths are dystopias; for example, George Orwell's 1984, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, and Ayn Rand's novella Anthem.
The clip below is the 5 elements of producing a successful narrative structure:
We can move through a narrative structure through a narrative by using liner, nonlinear, flashback, anti realist, open endings and closed endings.
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