Bio
Claude Levi Strauss was born November 28th 1908 in Brussels, Belgium. He grew up in Paris and lived on 16th arrondissement street which was named after the artist Claude Lorrain who he ended up admiring and later wrote about. He went on to study law and philosophy but decided not to purse law. Eventually he became a french anthropologist and ethnologist and was nicknamed "the Father of modern anthropology.
Theory of Binary Opposites
Strauss expresses that narratives are always centred on binary opposites, by which he means things that are complete polar opposites. Some examples of binary opposites include: good/evil,dark/light, small/big for example.
Binary opposites are frequently used in TV, film etc.They are easy to spot for example a Good vs Bad fighting film or a Love vs Hate in Romance.
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