Claude Levi-Strauss’s Theory and applying it the horror genre

Levi-Strauss argued narrative has two main characteristics which are:

1) It’s made of units that are put together according to certain rules.
2) These units form relations with each other, based on opposites, which provide the basis of the structure.

This theory is known as binary opposition. These opposites are mainly in conflict in the narrative and that was where the crisis of the narrative lay.

Below we have made a list of some of the opposites within the genre of horror:

Good-Evil
Victim-Killer
Danger-Safety
Imprisoned-Freedom
Fear-Relief
Life-Death
Insanity-Sanity