The Myth

The Myth

• Fairytales which are engraved into your mind from young, which creates stereotypes - (Propp's theory)
• Fantasy/warped reality (hyper-reality)
• Nurture -> passed down to generations e.g. Batman Begins - Dark Knight
• Ledgends

Meta- or met-prey

1. a. Later in time: metestrus b. A later stage of development:metaphors
2. Situated behind: metacarpus
3. a. Change; transformation b. Alternation
4. a. Beyond; transcending; more comprehensive; metalinguistics

Myths and meta-narratives

• Meta-narratives are being the super story, the story that everyone in an audience is assumed to know exists outside the story being told

Typical British uses of the meta narrative

1. London as a setting (mythical setting)
2. Lost e.g. Jack

Allegory

• Allegory is a form of extended metaphor, in which objects, persons, and actions in a narrative are equated with the meanings that lie outside the narrative itself. The underlying meaning has moral, social, religious or political significance and characters are often personifications of abstract ideas as charity, greed or envy.
• Thus, an allegory is a story with two meanings, a literal meaning and a symbolic meaning.