Topic: Analyze the narrative structure of one television programme or episode. How do general theories of narrative applied to literature and film help in this analysis?

Narratives, according to Bordwell, can be considered as 'a chain of events in cause-effect relationship occurring in time and space'. (Bordwell, 1993:65) A narrative is thus what we usually mean by the term 'story'. The events, actors, time and location constitute the material of a story. Apparently, we are surrounded by stories, collections of narratives ranging from fairy tales to scientific doctrines accompany us since childhood, films, plays, and television shows, even newspaper articles, all tell …

…different theories of narrative to analyze this specific episode in this essay. We must understand that it would be a grave mistake to underestimate the efficacy and sophistication of television's narrative structures and we should take narrative theory according to different context because this field is concerned with general mappings of narrative structures, it is up to the individual practitioner to use the insights gained about narrative structure to analyze a text's content or ideology.