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Narrative is a basic human impulse that is innate in humans and is almost as old as human history. However, it is very recent that the important phenomenon of narrative has been formally brought into the research field of view. In the late 1960s, influenced by the structuralist trend of thought, narratology as a discipline was officially born in France. It should be admitted that the achievements of structuralist narratology are huge and its influence is far-reaching. The theoretical model it establishes enables people to conduct detailed and accurate analysis of the complex internal mechanisms of narrative works, instead of being limited to rough descriptions of plots, characters and other large categories due to the lack of analytical tools as before.