Claud Levi-Strauss

Strauss was a French anthropologist and ethnologist. He said that stories unconsciously reflect the values, myths and beliefs of a culture. A lot of these stories are usually expressed terms of "Binary Oppositions."

He said that in a story there is always Binary Oppositions, for example:

• Male/Female
• Young/Old
• Black/White
• Tall/Short
• Large/Small
• War/Peace
• Weak/Strong
• Happy/Sad
• Left/Right
• Salt/Pepper
• Right/Wrong
• Civilised/Uncivilised

For my own coursework music video, I could not really relate this theory as there were hardly any opposites I could use. However the ones I did come up with were; Ugly/Sexy, Young/Old and Male/Female.