"Defend the view that Homeland is am 'anti-classical narrative"

Anti-Classical Narrative: Challenging the traditional conventions surrounding the concept of a narrative, an anti-narrative makes use of those conventions to call attention to itself and the practices and modes being used to convey meaning to an audience. Many times ironic, anti-narratives implicitly question the validity of conventional narrative logic and the structural aspects and strategies of a narrative in general.

In a classical narrative the order would be of the following: Equilibrium, disruption and then the equilibrium regained. However in Homeland it begins with a lot going on completely going against the standard structure suggesting it is an anti-classical narrative. Todorov (a theorist) also agrees stating that the phases and rules of the narrative of episodes do not show the problems/challenges resolved anytime soon by the characters. However a point balancing the argument is that maybe the conventions of a classical narrative could be more aimed at films and not TV shows.

David (The head of the CIA) also counter argues the conventions of a classical narrative in which goes against the stereotypical aspects of a boss in the everyday narrative. The fact he is black connotes a small amount of anti-narrative alone showing that he is the most powerful man in the scene and makes all the decisions, very abnormal for a classical narrative.

Carrie alone also counter argues the classical narrative of the characters. Based on a female being the protagonist, it argues against feminist theorists; Johnston and Malvey. Certain scenes like the first where she hits the guard away states the opposite generalisations that the audience perceive showing a very dominant role. Scopophillia is also presented in Homeland giving a mixed reception of both anti and classical narrative structure.