Thoughts on representation lesson and research on Vladimir Propp

We had a lesson on Media Representation, I was asked to explain Marxism to the class, I remembered that. We also had a group discussion which was fun.



Now to the research, this is the stuff I found out from Wikipedia:
1. Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp was born in 1895 and died in 1970.
2. He analyzed folk tales to find their most basic elements.
3. Apparently after the initial situation is depicted stories follow a sequence of 31 functions. Absentation, Interdiction, Violation of Interdiction, Reconaissance, Delivery, Trickery, Complicity, Villainy, Mediation, Beginning of Counter-Action, Hero's Departure, First Function of the Donor, Hero's Reaction, Receipt of a Magical Agent, Guidance, Struggle, Branding, Victory, Liquidation, Return, Pursuit, Rescue, Unrecognized Arrival, Unfounded Claims, Difficult Task, Solution, Recognition, Exposure, Transfiguration, Punishment and Wedding.
4. He also categotized all characters into 7 types: Villain, Donor, Helper, Love interest and their Father, Hero/Victim, False Hero. These characters are applicable to almost any story.

He is credited as having influenced Claude Levi-Strauss and Roland Barthes with his book 'Morphology of the Folk Tale'. He was also a faculty member of the department of Russian Literature until his death.