Keep Their Own Order

sequence

linearity

narrative

simultaneity

is a number of functions collected into Actions which are recognizable under certain conventional names: Fraud, the Betrayal, Seduction, Conflict, etc.

A sequence, as used by Propp and adapted by Barthes here, collects a number of functions into Actions which are recognizable under certain conventional names: Fraud, the Betrayal, Seduction, Conflict (SC: 114–15). It should not be difficult to understand how fairy tales, for example, rely on a highly repetitive use of sequences: ending with a marriage between the hero and the heroine, for example, is invariable in such tales, as is the presence in one form or another of an evil figure intent on stopping such a happy, matrimonial ending. To recognize sequences and to name them on a general level is to have integrated a series of functions into the level of Actions. p.59

sequence, n.Definitions

sequence