The Analysis of Narrative Plot Structure in " Solomon's Kingdom" Movie

The present article analyses the structure of narrative plot in “Solomon’s Kingdom” movie directed by Shahriyar Bahrani as a narrative text of resistance literature based on Todorov and Greimas theories. Accordingly, the question raised in this study is how it is possible to map the structure of narrative plot of this film onto the models of the two mentioned structuralist thinkers. The method of this study is descriptive-analytic.This movie develops in linear-narrative time and the main character’s actions and reactions create a sequence of events and consequently the narrative develops in the time axis. In this movie, according to Todorov model, the movement pattern is from a balanced situation to an unbalanced one and finally back to the balanced one. According to Greimas model, the protagonist is Solomon, theme is the testing of Solomon’s kingdom by God using demons, receiver is Solomon, sender is God, helpers are God, Absalom, Asef, etc, and antagonists are Jewish leaders, demons, Yazar, etc. In this movie, both narrative propositions and narrative sequences correspond to Greimas model.