ABSTRACT
The quest story is implicit in the nature of the hero. The sequence of events is the consequence of his will, his ambition, his activism, his rationality and his view of the world. He strives towards his goal never doubting the rightness or the primacy of his cause. He regards any opposition as evil, or at least as ‘wild’ and inferior, and he struggles to subdue it. His mode is domination-of the environment, of his enemies, of his friends, of women, and of his own emotions, his own ‘weaknesses’. To many readers his certainty is enormously attractive because it reinforces established views of the way the world is. He embodies the privileged terms of the interconnected dualisms which have shaped Western thought and values.
