The next person I will be looking at is Soviet folklorist and Scholar, Vladimir Propp. As a
19th century Scholar, Propp analysed the basic structural elements of Russian folk tales to
identify the relationship between characters and narratives. (Academia, Vladimir Propp
Character theory and narrative structure, 2020). This then evolved into Propp being the
founder of the idea that a certain type of characters were to be used in every narrative.
(Propp, (Vladimir, Theory and history of folklore, 1984). He believed that there are eight
different types of characters: the villain, the dispatcher, the helper, the princess or the prize,
his father, the donor, the seeker hero and the one I will be investigating, the false hero, “The
false hero is a character who takes credit for the hero’s actions or tries to marry the princess”
(Oxford Dictionary, 2020). Propp’s character theory can then be brought forwards to modern
day television as even though every story is different, a lot of shows still conform to past
character theories such as Propp’s. For example in the US show Once Upon A Time, (Once
Upon A Time, ABC, 2011), there are multiple characters who are portrayed as villains a