"All texts follow similar narrative structures". The Dark Knight Rises, the third instalment in the Christopher Nolan Batman trilogy contains the 5 stages of the narrative Todorov theory.
1. A state of equilibrium.
Bruce Wayne has become a social recluse, rarely leaving his estate. After taking the blame for Harvey Dent's crimes in the last installment, with a tarnished reputation, Batman feels compelled to intervene to help the city as they struggle with Bane's plans to destroy the city.
2. A disruption of order.
Bane aims to destroy the city, attempting to reveal the truth of who Harvey Dent really was. He also plots to steal a reactor from Wayne Enterprises. Bane injures Batman, taking him to a foreign prison, where escape is virtually impossible.
3. Recognition the order has been disrupted.
Bane lures the cities police officers underground, then collapses the exits, resulting in a lack of legal authority in the city. After killing the Mayor, he kidnaps a physicist, to convert the reactor core into a nuclear bomb. Holding the city hostage, exiling the wealthy and the powerful.
4. Attempt to repair the damage.
After months of re-training and after escaping the prison, Batman enlists the help of Selina, Blake, Tate, Commissioner Gordon and Lucius Fox to help stop the bombs detonation. Bane is defeated, however the bomb is only remotely destroyed.
5. State of new equilibrium.
With no way to stop the detonation, he hauls the bomb into the bay. The bomb detonates and Batman is presumed dead, honoured a hero.
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